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Residents and police walked through the streets of D.C on Friday calling for an end to gun violence.

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has sent a letter to Colette Peters, the new director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, over issues regarding D.C. residents in the agency’s custody.

The return of Metro’s 7000-series railcars will pick up the pace later this month.

You can scratch Qualia Coffee off the list of food and beverage business closures that rippled across Greater Washington this summer.

The most unusual aspect about the Aug. 28 shooting and attempted armed robbery of Washington Commanders running back Brian Robinson Jr. was that he decided to fight back. Fortunately, the promising NFL rookie got away with his life and is…

D.C. public school students’ scores in math and reading dropped significantly between 2019 and 2022, with the learning losses most pronounced among Black, Hispanic and at-risk students.

The Washington Metrorail Safety Commission has given Metro permission to run up to twenty 7000-series trains a day. That’s a dozen more than they’re currently allowed to run.

D.C.’s first standardized testing results since the pandemic began show what local school leaders had expected: a substantial decline in reading and math proficiency, and the widening of an already troubling achievement gap between white…

Catching students up to pre-pandemic levels could take until 2027, researchers say

Proficiency rates in several subjects have decreased among at-risk D.C. students between 2019 and 2022, revealing a widening gap for some of the city’s most vulnerable students, according to education officials.

Young families and many child-care workers were dealt a huge blow last month when a court upheld a pernicious D.C. day-care regulation.

It has been over a decade since the proverbial race for carbon neutrality began globally and whether in the dead heat of the District summer or driving through a foot of standing water on Rhode Island Avenue, climate change is often not…

More real estate developers are buying office buildings and converting them to residential use. The most recently-announced project in D.C. is the upcoming conversion of two high-profile, but older buildings on Connecticut Avenue, north of…

A group of District residents, returning citizens, restorative justice, and activists held a virtual meeting Wednesday to brainstorm ideas of what city leaders should provide in a proposed new jail facility.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said trauma services will be made available to the victims in two separate shootings that involved teenagers.

A seemingly simple-looking bike lane and road reconfiguration in-the-making has spawned an election battle in a small portion of Capitol Hill that could see a current official recalled from office in November — and possibly re-elected once…

If you look at a hydrological map of the D.C. area, you’ll see a landscape that is criss-crossed by little streams, like veins in a body, endlessly churning water through our neighborhoods and parks toward the Chesapeake Bay and the…