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Senate Beer was once the city's top brew. It's been revived after decades off the shelves

University of the District of Columbia President Ronald Mason is once again the highest-paid person on the District payroll — but he has some new company in the $300,000 club in 2019.

Nearly two years ago, the DC Council considered a bill to provide tax breaks to developers who convert vacant office buildings in certain downtown areas into residential space. While that bill stalled out, it spurred creation of a task…

THE REPUTATION of former Metro chairman Jack Evans wasn’t the only thing that was tarnished amid the swirl of allegations that he used his public office to advance his private interests. Public trust in the Metro board was also badly…

It was game day. Ballou High School’s football team was facing rival Anacostia High. Two powerhouses vying for the Southeast Cup championship. In typical high school tradition, Ballou held a pep rally in its gymnasium ahead of the Friday…

Freedom, they say, is not free. And in 1950, neither was the Freedom Fair.

The Girl Scouts had come to volunteer at Rock Creek Park, but now they were enthralled with a man in a bison costume. The bison was wearing a doctor’s coat and a stethoscope. The bison was handing them colorful prescription bottles.

As increasingly large and frequent protests have flooded the District’s streets in recent years, federal officials have searched for ways to offset the cost of supporting such demonstrations.

A man driving a stolen van has been sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to striking and killing bicyclist David Salovesh, a well-known advocate of bicycle safety in D.C.

Volunteers from Monumental Sports & Entertainment, Eagle Academy Public Charter School and the community joined Kaboom to transform an empty space into a playground designed by students themselves.

The District’s traditional public school system was unable to close a budget shortfall on its own before the close of the fiscal year. But city leaders have shifted funds to ensure the school system ends the fiscal year on Monday with…

The day before she celebrated her 17th birthday, Ophelia Sal­ovesh should have been at Basis D.C. charter school, where she is in her senior year.

A lawsuit that accuses D.C. police of excessive force and unconstitutional arrests on Inauguration Day can move forward, a federal judge ruled on Friday. However, she granted the government’s motion to dismiss some of the claims.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s signature $60.8 million economic development project, “Reunion Square,” in the city’s impoverished Ward 8 east of the Anacostia River is in limbo. But it’s not because of rinky-dink political machinations that…

An umbrella group for D.C. police unions rented space at President Trump’s hotel for its annual holiday party — and now faces sharp criticism from some of its own members, who object to the high cost and the forced association with the…

Last week, Washington D.C.’s Advisory Neighborhood Commission 4B voted unanimously to pass a resolution in favor of the city’s proposed second-look bill, which would let incarcerated people who committed crimes when they were young…

News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton September 28, 2019 Contact: Jack Miller WASHINGTON, D.C. – At the Subcommittee on Aviation’s Hearing titled “A Work in Progress: Implementation of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018,”…