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Riding the bus helps reduce air pollution and traffic congestion, says Ward 4 Councilmember Brandon Todd

A Ward 8 business owner says he lost a construction bid for the Entertainment and Sports Arena despite a system meant to help local companies.

For two months in 2015, the city tried to get everyone who overdosed into treatment, with promising results. Then it stopped.

Emotions ran high in a room full of people who gathered last December to talk about the spike in homicides in D.C.

D.C. residents and teachers offered some advice Wednesday night to the educator nominated to lead the city’s schools: Listen to us and be a champion for our campuses.

Last year, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and other District officials flew to the West Coast as part of an exploratory recruiting trip to meet with companies such as Netflix Inc., Yelp Inc. and other tech firms.

On the eve of winter’s coldest punch of the season so far, with temperatures due to plunge to low single digits, two of the thousands of homeless people in the nation’s capital, James Bernard and June Lewis, sat huddled in the shallow…

It has long been a favorite talking point for D.C.’s elected officials: 1,000 new people moving into the city every month, making it one of the fastest-growing jurisdictions in the country.

Fans of the International Spy Museum now have a light at the end of the tunnel for when the temporarily shuttered museum will reopen: May 11.

Last June, the Zoning Commission voted for a one-year extension of approval for a development on the vacant lot at the corner of Florida Avenue and North Capitol Street NW (map). Now, as the clock begins winding down, the development team…

WASHINGTON — For years, D.C. police had trouble keeping officers. Now, the department is operating nearly at full force, and the city is starting a new program asking residents to weigh in on how officers are doing.

An internal audit conducted by D.C.'s Department of Human Services shows that Life Deeds Inc., the social services provider responsible for managing the daily operations of a 35-unit homeless shelter in Ward 7, submitted what appear to be…

Happy Wednesday. Muriel Bowser said yesterday the District would double down on its public health and policing strategies to stem a tide of killings this year.

The set of 97 steps between M Street NW and Prospect Street in Georgetown—better known as the Exorcist Steps—is now a historical landmark. But don’t queue up the 1973 movie in celebration yet: We don’t exactly have The Exorcist to thank.

Liz Koenig has been working in D.C. charter schools for seven years, and at the same charter for the last five. She used to be a lawyer. “My first-year salary as a teaching assistant was less than my year-end bonus as an attorney, which…