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Enrollment in D.C. Public Schools fell by hundreds of students this academic year, spoiling hopes of city education leaders who predicted more families would return to campuses in the third school year altered by the pandemic.

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is eyeing downtown D.C. for another grocery store, according to public documents.

The wheels of a Metro car that derailed, prompting a federal investigation and the suspension of more than half of Metro’s fleet, had moved two inches apart from one another, according to preliminary findings released Wednesday by the…

While many people were getting ready to travel for the Thanksgiving holiday, some top D.C. officials and business executives were bound for a particularly long trip: to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.

Opportunity Financial, an online lender, will refund $1.5 million to more than 4,000 D.C. borrowers, settling a lawsuit that alleged it charged them excessive interest rates, D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine announced Tuesday.

The “focused enforcement” follows a string of vehicle collisions involving young children and a 13-year high in traffic fatalities.

Metrorail, the transit network on which hundreds of thousands of people depended daily before the pandemic, is limping along, a shadow of its once-robust self. October’s train derailment has sidelined roughly two-thirds of the system’s…

The National Park Service has started a two-year renovation project at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, aiming to improve accessibility and expand exhibits to showcase the third president’s “multi-faceted” story.

The battle lines are being drawn over proposed new ward lines.

An assistant principal who drew praise for his work at Kramer Middle School in Anacostia and previously Truesdell Education Campus in Brightwood Park now faces possible sanctions for working jobs in DC and Rhode Island simultaneously.

Kids getting their COVID-19 shots at a student vaccination clinic at a D.C. elementary school got some surprise visitors: Dr. Anthony Fauci, former President Barack Obama and Teddy, one of the Washington Nationals’ Racing President…

Students at Kimball Elementary School in Southeast D.C. expected to receive stickers, maybe a T-shirt, after getting a coronavirus shot on Tuesday afternoon. But shortly after workers began the vaccinations, a tall, gangly former president…

Organizers hope the market will help small businesses engage with the downtown environment, a market that is typically out of their reach.

The sale and use of gas-powered leaf blowers will be prohibited in the District starting in January. Environmental advocates say it’s a move in the right direction.

One D.C. department has housing violation authority but claims it does not have expertise to conduct mold inspections. Another agency has the expertise but no enforcement authority.

The Rev. Mark E. Whitlock Jr., senior pastor of Reid Temple AME Church, decided to devote his entire early morning virtual service on Friday to the coronavirus as soon as he heard about the latest variant of concern.

There’s a grainy, ‘90s-era video on YouTube that shows a 16-year-old Black kid in an oversized white T-shirt, prisoner No. 272-113 at the D.C. Jail. A dark-suited reporter asks him whether anyone he knew growing up in his neighborhood…

A former assistant principal at a D.C. middle school has been accused of having held a second full-time job as a principal at a high school in Providence, Rhode Island — a possible violation of the city’s ethics rules for government…