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Hundreds of thousands of students are heading back to classes in D.C., Virginia and Maryland on Monday.

Schools across the nation’s capital and its suburbs are expected to welcome more than 200,000 students back to classes Monday, marking a full-scale return to in-person learning for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.

The Third Street Tunnel in downtown Washington has fully reopened after a water main break caused it to close for a week.

As school buildings prepare to welcome back students at D.C. Public Schools, some community leaders are raising concerns about whether those buildings will be ready.

William Pitts was one of the first on staff to be vaccinated.

As students head back to school, community leaders in the District are coming together to create a plan that will allow kids to get to school safely, and they’re hoping to get more support from residents in Wards 7 and 8 in order to pass…

School starts in the District on Monday, but some students jumped at the opportunity to roam the halls on a Saturday. It’s hard to blame them, since it was a chance for current students and former alumni to tour the brand new Benjamin…

The dismissal bell rang at 3 p.m. Hundreds of students streamed out of KIPP DC College Preparatory in Northeast Washington. Some walked to the bus stop out front, waiting for a bus to take them to the Metro a mile way. Others searched for…

Some upperclassmen at Howard University in D.C. with tuition not paid from the Spring semester will soon be tuition debt-free.

When she bought her home on Talbert Street in 2018, Jeanita Brown was certain she’d live there forever. But within weeks, she began to feel uneasy: her windows weren’t closing, and small cracks began to spiderweb up her walls — but…

The investigation into Wednesday morning’s fatal D.C. police shooting of a Black man is in its early stages, and officials have cautioned against jumping to conclusions before all the facts have been established. But what is known — that a…

Many invoke the late Rep. John Lewis and other Civil Rights figures in new push to expand ballot access

D.C. has reached a national milestone for rent relief ahead of a use-it-or-lose-it deadline, ensuring more funds will be available for renters and landlords in the District, the mayor’s office announced Friday.

As a crisis roils D.C.’s Medicaid system, city leaders said on Friday that they will issue an entirely new procurement for insurance companies to manage poor patients’ care — an attempt that may or may not prevent MedStar from revoking…

School starts in D.C. on Monday morning, but teachers say they’re concerned some buildings won’t be ready. D.C.’s city administrator told lawmakers that contracted maintenance crews will work all weekend to make necessary fixes to heating,…

In August 1963, around 250,000 people gathered in D.C. as part of the March on Washington—where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his now-legendary “I Have A Dream” speech. Over 58 years later, another voting rights march will take place…

Yes, you read that right. The Washington Monument will be open again to the public this weekend, after a lightning strike earlier this month forced it to close.

The District’s most competitive application high school is failing to enroll students who attended a neighborhood middle school in the city’s poorest wards — even after officials temporarily eliminated an admission test during the…