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AG Karl Racine says Cure the Streets will expand to four additional sites.

D.C. has the highest rate of senior hunger in the nation when compared to states. Feeding America’s “State of Senior Hunger in America in 2019” report, released in August 2021, says 13.5 percent of seniors in the District were food…

Two digital marketing agencies and a school dining service company that sued Whittle School & Studios over allegations of unpaid work have been awarded a total of almost $1.4 million, court documents show.

Wesley Thomas may possess a distinction no one would ever desire: homeless in Washington longer than anyone.

Anna Valero spent much of the pandemic trying to pull together D.C.’s restaurant industry and help workers survive. Now, as the industry slowly recovers, she’s hoping to use the connections she built during Covid to transform downtown's…

An assistant principal at one of D.C.’s public middle schools is accused of taking a second job in person while working remotely for the District, according to an ethics board complaint.

Michael Redmond faces allegations that he violated the city’s code of ethics by holding both jobs last year.

It was almost 20 months ago that the COVID-19 pandemic forced the D.C. Council into a new world of virtual hearings and votes, but now lawmakers say it’s time to return to the Wilson Building in person. And while many of the details of how…

Yesterday's announcement of stepped-up police enforcement around selected school zones drew flak from a number of school and traffic safety advocates who had hoped for more in response to recent traffic fatalities.

Aldo Richardson, 61, better known as “Al,” signed up to serve in the Army Reserves shortly after high school. Born in East St. Louis, Missouri, but raised in Chicago, he attended Carpenter Elementary School and William H. Wells High…

The violence interruption program Cure the Streets will expand next year to four D.C. neighborhood areas to address gun violence.

As the District closes a deadly year, D.C.’s top prosecutor says he’s ready to expand a violence-prevention program into four new neighborhoods.

Over the past year, D.C. officials have embraced protest tourism as they try to bring back office workers and attract international visitors

The New York Times published a distressing dispatch from the Smithsonian on Thanksgiving last week, saying that due to climate change, the museums’ collections are “extremely vulnerable to flooding, and some could eventually be…

Cure the Streets, a D.C. based violence interruption program run through the Office of the Attorney General, will expand to four additional neighborhoods next spring. The expansion, facilitated by a significant increase in city funding for…

D.C. leaders are pleading with the public to turn in illegal guns after a toddler was shot and killed in Southeast last week.