TheDCLine.org - Local News, Views & Events

A whistleblower complaint challenges proposed changes to the historic Main Reading Room, and the library takes issue with its critics

A total of 17,300 mixed-use apartments have been completed in Washington, D.C., since 2012, per a report from RentCafe, a nationwide apartment search website.

Kevin Ward, who had died by suicide in January, allegedly used school funds to buy cars, sports memorabilia and property in West Virginia.

About 2,000 miles from his home in Southeast Washington, 16-year-old Don’Zeal Davis pitched a tent in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park. He spent the next 24 hours alone in the wilderness, a kind of training exercise held during a recent…

Kevin “Scooter” Ward, the late mayor of Hyattsville, Maryland who took his own life in January, is now being accused of having embezzled $2.2 million from KIPP D.C., the city’s largest charter school operator.

Kids are back in school this week, and while COVID-19 might still be on parents’ minds, chances are their children already got it sometime over the past two years.

The former mayor of Hyattsville, Maryland, who died in January, was under investigation for allegations he defrauded the D.C. public charter school he worked for of $2.2 million, according to a lawsuit filed by federal prosecutors.

Assistant Chief Andre Wright has had two affairs with subordinate officers and allegedly drank on the job, according to an official complaint and divorce filings.

Megastar Lorde told the crowd at The Anthem in D.C. Monday she’d been swimming in the Potomac River before the show.

On Oct. 29, Don and Mera Rubell plan to open the Rubell Museum DC, transforming a long-vacant school in southwest Washington

During a concert at The Anthem on Monday night, Lorde told the audience she’d been swimming in the Potomac River.

New data from the CDC shows that 75.4% of D.C. children have already been infected with COVID-19.

After leaving city government, Mr. Gibson remained involved in the District’s artistic, educational and financial welfare in high-level positions at foundations and institutes and on committees

DC Public Schools kicked off the new school year Monday with officials touting a $51.8 million modernization of Ward 6's School Within School at Goding Elementary amid concerns from some lawmakers that a third of schools are having to rely…

On the H Street corridor, where city officials have invested resources to combat violence, violent crime is up 89 percent compared with the same time last year