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A D.C. cannabis company has sued the city for damages and to demand the return of roughly $70,000 seized as evidence in police raids last year that yielded criminal charges, but no convictions.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has named the District’s top teacher.

Victor Martinez is leaving after less than a year. Advocates say it’s part of a pattern of staff churn for the troubled agency.

Mayor Muriel Bowser visited Center City Public Charter School's Brightwood campus this morning to announce Jermar Rountree as recipient of the 2023 DC Teacher of the Year Award.

As D.C. lawmakers prepare to award some of the city’s most lucrative contracts — paying three insurance companies more than $2 billion to provide health care for about a third of all D.C. residents — council members are caught in a bitter…

Former D.C. Deputy Mayor Chris Geldart — who resigned this week after an argument in an Arlington, Virginia, parking lot led to a police statement that the District official lived in Falls Church — is defending his living arrangement.

The D.C. attorney general is opening an investigation into governors who are relocating migrants to the nation's capital, according to the Texas Tribune and ProPublica.

Chris Geldart resigned as a top D.C. official over an assault allegation and questions about where he lives

Metro has escalated its sense of urgency in finding more revenue, trying to make the case that it can’t move forward alone

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and others have been sending thousands of immigrants to Washington, D.C. Karl Racine, the district’s attorney general, is investigating whether immigrants have been deceived.

Days after a scathing report laying out public housing failures, the D.C. Housing Authority held an emergency meeting with its board on the report, issued by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

D.C. Green Bank's inaugural chief is exiting as the financial organization prepares to emerge from its "startup" phase and take advantage of federal resources now available to support sustainable construction.

Our rector at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Foggy Bottom, the Rev. Wesley Williams, leads us weekly in a prayer specially composed for “a country that swells with an ocean of weapons.” Citing violence in our streets, he prays, “Strengthen…

The process of overhauling D.C.’s criminal code finally goes before the D.C. Council for the first time next week.

A massive overhaul of D.C.’s outdated criminal code is nearing the legislative finish line.

Since the 1970s, it has been illegal to swim in the Anacostia River — and when it comes to fishing, you’re also warned to limit the consumption of fish from the river and to not eat certain species.

As president of ENLACE, D.C.’s first known Latino LGBTQ advocacy group, in the 1980s, Letitia “Leti” Gomez knew she was part of something historic. So she began saving all sorts of memorabilia: newspaper clippings, meeting agendas, fliers…

This time, Mayor Muriel Bowser is withholding information from a firm representing preschoolers with special education needs.

Fifty-five ballot drop boxes are now open across D.C., allowing voters who have received a mail ballot to make their choices ahead of the Nov. 8 election.

Women across America are significantly less likely to experience homelessness than men, a disparity that is particularly high in D.C., where rates of homelessness are roughly three times higher among men than women, according to data from…