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Almost 65 years since graduating from Armstrong Technical High School in the District, Thelma Cummings and Clayton Roberts greeted each other Sunday with a warm hug as a ballroom in Prince George’s County began to fill up around them.

A day for Kelly Harper runs roughly 13,000 steps — back and forth, back and forth around her classroom. That’s about six miles for the 29-year-old teacher. The large pink jug of water she keeps at her desk is crucial for the marathon-plus…

Quads, hamstrings, glutes — remember those muscles, Capital Bikeshare users?

THE DISTRICT’S charter school sector has been largely untouched as charter school opponents across the country have waged an increasingly relentless campaign against them. That is mainly due to the enormous popularity of the schools that…

Housing authorities say current, critical problems could take up to two years to fix

The April 7 editorial “The District’s budget warning” rightfully noted that D.C. Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey S. DeWitt certified the fiscal 2020 budget and four-year financial plan as balanced. Then it warned the D.C. Council about the…

Capital Bikeshare says it has temporarily removed its electric bikes from service as a precaution after reports of brakes that are excessively strong.

Joe Weedon plans to prolong the decision as long as he can. He wants to attend just one more school open house. Talk to just a few more parents and teachers. Wrestle with the choice while he coaches just one more youth baseball game.

Congress would approve 10 more years of critical federal funding for Metro, but only if the transit agency agreed to not buy its next generation of rail cars from China, legislation being proposed by the region’s senators stipulates.

Thousands of people gathered along Constitution Avenue in D.C. for the annual National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade.

Once a year during Black History Month, young Max Lyttle would become the center of attention at his Baltimore Catholic elementary school.

Years of neglect have led to a maintenance crisis in D.C.’s public housing. And as Congress and the Trump administration battle over large proposed cuts to the federal budget for affordable housing, the D.C. Housing Authority has asked…

Mark Ein is taking his tennis franchise to the roof of Union Market, announcing a deal for a new pop-up stadium roughly a week after announcing he would take over management of the Citi Open tournament.

This summer, if you’re able to snag a ticket, you can watch Venus Williams play in a 700-seat tennis arena on the rooftop of Union Market.

The 700-seat, rooftop tennis stadium will host the Washington Kastles' 2019 season.

Higher caseloads for judges, slower decisions for the public. Those are the consequences of an “unprecedented” number of judicial vacancies in D.C. Superior Court and the Court of Appeals, according to the top judges on both courts.

D.C.'s newest sports venue is planned to open this summer on top of the Union Market building.

Many of the healthcare services people receive have shifted away from hospital campuses into community-based facilities, often adapting vacant retail spaces into primary care and urgent care centers.