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Education services disrupted during the pandemic continue to leave some students without enough support to learn, judge found

Soapstone Valley, home to one of the most polluted tributaries in Rock Creek Park, is about to get a major sewer upgrade to keep the 100-year-old pipes from leaking into the stream. The upgrade has been in the works for years, and is the…

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine’s lawsuit against former President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, the Trump Hotel and the Trump Organization over the alleged misuse of $1.1 million is going to trial in September.

Lincoln Property Co. is seeking replacement tenants for Nike Inc.'s Georgetown retail store, more than a decade after the athletic apparel giant inked a deal to fill the gap created by Barnes & Noble.

After years of development, D.C. finally broke ground Thursday on a heavily anticipated Ward 8 hospital. Mayor Muriel Bowser also announced the name of the 136-bed, full-service hospital serving residents east of the Anacostia River: Cedar…

A commissioner accused of abusing his position looks to be on the way out, among other big changes for the troubled board.

A majority of D.C. residents approve of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s job performance — although her popularity has dropped from previous years, with residents growing sharply more concerned about crime and the city’s direction overall as she…

After years of negotiations and sometimes tense debate about a new hospital on the St. Elizabeths East campus, Mayor Muriel Bowser and other DC officials enjoyed a victory lap with a midday groundbreaking celebrating what's been newly…

The tenants of Buena Vista Apartments are forming a cooperative — a win for the 21 residents who have been on rent strike since May 2020.

The D.C. Department of Transportation promised this week improved safety features outside a Northwest elementary school, a day after a boy was struck by a driver outside Truesdell Elementary School, in the Brightwood Park neighborhood.

A new effort will try to offer a lifeline to D.C. street food vendors, many of whom are a mainstay in Columbia Heights and face threat of the criminalization.

A lieutenant with the Metropolitan Police Department is under investigation and on leave for alleged ties to a right-wing extremist group.

A hospital slated to rise east of the Anacostia River will take its name from the nearby estate of abolitionist Frederick Douglass: Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center, GW Health.

A D.C. police lieutenant in the intelligence branch has been put on leave amid an investigation into alleged improper contacts with a prominent member of the extremist group Proud Boys, according to four law enforcement officials with…

COVID-19 hit D.C. resident Wanda Newman hard — not the coronavirus itself, but the effects of isolation and living in a frightened community.

Portia Richardson was a teacher in the D.C. public schools for 10 years, and when she left, “I really thought about ways that I could have provided a more culturally responsive and trauma informed curriculum for my own students,” she told…