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DCHA executive staff received salary bonuses this month of up to $20,000, despite HUD findings of inadequate management

Christopher Geldart resigned in October amid an assault allegation and questions about whether he lived in D.C.

Henderson wants to speed up the teacher hiring process, but some fear she’s helping agencies shirk responsibility.

Two years after Janeese Lewis George became the only self-identified democratic socialist on the D.C. Council, she is pitching a plan to cut the free market out of part of the city’s housing sector — and finding support for her idea, which…

A new report from DC Auditor Kathy Patterson concludes that the DC Department of General Services is mishandling repairs of schools and other facilities.

The chairman of the D.C. Council fired off a letter last April asking the District’s watchdog, the Office of the D.C. Auditor, to take a look at why many repairs do not seem to get done or completed in a timely fashion in the city,…

The report found shortcomings in the way the Department of General Services keeps track of maintenance work orders

Over 100 nonprofit organizations that offer after-school programs in D.C. will now have some extra money to keep kids engaged.

Multiple local firefighters and paramedics have accused D.C. of violating a longtime federal court decision that protects their rights to wear a beard for religious reasons. The emergency personnel have asked a federal judge to hold the…

Officials at the DC Housing Authority are facing a deadline this week for answering the blistering report from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. They'll also be asked to provide details on their response Wednesday…

DCHA leaders have kept discussions of the HUD review behind closed doors

The suit is not the first time the D.C. fire department has been entangled over facial hair policy

Since 1993, Washington English Center in D.C.’s Penn Quarter neighborhood has served more than 50,000 immigrants and refugees

District Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) struck many of the right chords in her Thanksgiving message. Her notes of gratitude for having the chance to lead a city as dynamic and inclusive as D.C. were in harmony with her support of the new…

Janet “Jaye” Davis moved from one foil tray to another, scooping out portions of turkey and ham for those who had assembled outside So Others Might Eat’s brick building Thursday in the early-morning chill.

Think your Thanksgiving meal prep is intense? Chefs at local nonprofit Food and Friends prepared 8,500 pounds of turkey for area families facing HIV, cancer, and other life-challenging illnesses.

D.C. public schools and the Washington Teachers’ Union say they have reached a tentative contract agreement more than three years after the union’s previous contract lapsed.

The Washington Teachers’ Union and D.C. leaders have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract that will give teachers a raise for the first time in three years.