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Kinara Health & Home Care Services got $1.1 million in public dollars this year.

Good Monday morning. After decades of District residents holding bleak views about the city's public schools, a record 44% believe DC Public Schools and the charter sector are “excellent/good,” a new WaPo poll found.

WASHINGTON — She pulls up in her police cruiser, the one emblazoned with "Officer of the Year" on the doors, for her daily workout at a Southeast boxing gym behind a strip mall. She leaves the Sixth District precinct in the rearview mirror…

Before Alisha Jamison had twins in 2008, this is what she knew about the District’s public schools: The polarizing chancellor at the time, Michelle Rhee, was at war with the teachers union. Campuses were shutting down. School buildings…

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For weeks, all Clarence Venable could talk about was his new job. After his own brushes with the law, the 40-year-old was elated to begin training last month to be a violence interrupter, tasked with reducing the rising level of homicides…

The Brookland neighborhood in Northeast D.C., home to Catholic University, now boasts a newly constructed concrete bridge with new sidewalks, two-way bike lanes and a traffic signal.

Ruth McKey Harmon browsed through a snowflake ornament display, catching up with old friends as she passed dozens of booths with organic cotton sweaters, handmade earrings and “adult hot cocoa.”

The District is pledging to create an additional 20 miles of protected bike lanes in three years — a plan that would triple the number of miles of protected lanes citywide.

EIGHT MONTHS after Javed Bhutto was shot and killed — allegedly by a neighbor who had been discharged from St. Elizabeths Hospital after nearly 18 years of treatment for having killed someone else in another unprovoked shooting — D.C.…

It seems the Redskins are welcome to return to the RFK site, only District residents don’t want to pay for it. Sorry, that’s not how this works.

Trap yoga and a financial wellness workshop were among the events scheduled for DC's Department of Corrections women's empowerment event.

What started as the charitable acts of just a few friends over two decades ago has grown into a fully staffed operation that will feed thousands of families in the D.C. area this Thanksgiving.

Brandi Forte keeps the job posting brief.

A new nonprofit organization in Shaw will help connect local students to professional role models through video chats, seeking to help low-income families who don’t have access to technology outside of the class.

The owners say they couldn't negotiate a lease extension and hope to relocate.