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A former D.C. schools chancellor and another top official ousted by Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) for helping the chancellor’s daughter skirt the competitive school lottery said the mayor had been informed about the child’s school placement,…

Sherwayne Carter assumed that his senior-year schedule would be as grueling as the three before. Early morning alarms. Fifteen-hour days. Buses and trains trundling across the District to the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Classes.…

WASHINGTON – The search is over for the driver of a sedan D.C. police say struck and killed a cyclist in downtown D.C. last month. Police arrested 20-year-old Phillip Peoples of Suitland, Maryland, on Friday and charged him with second…

The top three elected officials in the District would get $20,000 raises next year — their first pay increase in more than a decade — under new legislation set to be introduced. D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) would see her salary go up to…

Metro is considering raising fares for big events. How many cliches fit? Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. Penny wise, pound foolish. Here today, gone tomorrow. I spent five years working for the American Public Transportation Association,…

When the crackling rail-car loudspeakers come on during rush hour, they might as well say: Get your wallets out, this is a train robbery! Despite consistent declines in Metro ridership, shoddy (and dangerous) service, cost overruns and…

The Dupont Circle building that for nearly 40 years housed Restaurant Nora, the United States’ first certified organic restaurant, has been sold. Prolific D.C. restaurateur Ashok Bajaj, whose Knightsbridge Restaurant Group owns of Rasika,…

The mayor, chairman of the D.C. Council, and city's attorney general could be getting a raise in the near future. A bill was introduced on Friday to give Mayor Muriel Bowser a 10 percent pay bump, increasing her salary to $220,000 a year.…

The so-called Exorcist Steps, the site of that demonic fall at the end of The Exorcist and a ton of huffing and puffing from folks trying to get up the 97 steps from M Street NW to Prospect Street, is the subject of an application for…

The positive effects a Whole Foods opening can have on a neighborhood are well-documented, but one Northwest D.C. neighborhood is becoming a case study for what happens to a community when the popular organic grocer shuts its doors.

Race is a subject many in D.C. politics prefer not to discuss. But it is at the forefront of the city’s most competitive election this fall. That contest pits incumbent D.C. Council member Elissa Silverman (I-At Large) — white, Jewish and a…

Three years ago, Valor Development gave the Spring Valley and American University Park neighborhoods a glimpse of a proposed development which would replace the shopping center that previously hosted a Superfresh grocery store at 4330 48th…

Last week, an eviction of a Deanwood strip mall made the news, prompting questions about the fairness of the one-day, safety-citing notice to vacate and leading one of the tenants to challenge the closure. If the developer moves forward,…

Don Peebles, a national real estate developer who began his career in D.C. in the 1980s, has seen the nation's capital go through several distinct waves of hospitality development. The latest iteration, Peebles said, is the introduction of…

Monday is the last day you can submit comments on the National Park Service's proposed permit rule changes.

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a police officer on patrol in Florida or a correctional officer a California prison? Do you want to know what it feels like to sit in a real police cruiser or meet a dog from a K-9 unit? Now you…

A D.C. TEENAGER who had been shot more than a year earlier died from his injuries on Jan. 5, becoming the city’s first homicide victim of 2018. Five days later, on Jan. 10, another teenager — Paris Brown, 19 — was shot and killed in…