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D.C.’s version of mayoral control of schools suppresses accurate data and discussion about education issues. We don’t have to go back to the old system to fix that.

Linda Harllee Harper, a longtime D.C. government employee who most recently served as director of the city’s offices of neighborhood engagement and gun violence prevention, died early Friday morning.

President Joe Biden delivered yesterday on his threat to veto the GOP-initiated effort to overturn a police accountability law approved by the DC Council.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday — the third anniversary of George Floyd’s murder — vetoed an effort led by congressional Republicans to overturn a new District of Columbia law on improving police accountability.

President Biden vetoed a GOP effort to block D.C’s major police accountability legislation Thursday, noting the legislation contained “common-sense” changes aimed at enhancing public trust.

President Joe Biden on Thursday vetoed a congressional resolution that sought to block a police discipline and accountability bill passed by the D.C. Council, siding with city lawmakers and advocates in a fight over police reform and…

“Uhh, thank you so much Optimus Prime,” said the mildly bemused D.C. bureaucrat, responding to the iconic leader of the Autobots.

The D.C. Council held a six-hour public oversight hearing this week to decide the best way to address the District’s dangerous driving crisis.

DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton joined with 13 House members from Maryland and Virginia this week in opposing a recently introduced bill to increase air traffic at Reagan National Airport.

City leaders are seeking to reverse declining tax revenue from office properties downtown that have become increasingly vacant

Protests are planned at the Wharf today following Monday's abrupt closure of Moon Rabbit restaurant at the InterContinental hotel.

Mayor Muriel Bowser joined leaders of the DowntownDC and Golden Triangle business improvement districts this morning to launch development of the Downtown Action Plan, which will lay out strategies and programs to revitalize downtown amid…

With just a little over a month before the last day of school, the principal of one of D.C.’s larger middle schools is out of the job.

Activists say he isn’t going far enough as big rent hikes loom.

Moon Rabbit, the critically acclaimed modern Vietnamese restaurant from Chef Kevin Tien, will close its doors for good Tuesday. This comes in the midst of a unionization effort by the restaurant’s servers, bartenders, and other workers.

DC Council members Kenyan McDuffie and Janeese Lewis George are pushing the District's chief financial officer to get DC Public Schools teachers the retroactive pay they're owed under a recently ratified contract.

Two years after magazine owner Cathy Merrill enraged staff by calling for a return to the office, the company has reached a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board

Acclaimed chef Kevin Tien’s modern Vietnamese restaurant, Moon Rabbit, is closing on the Wharf at the end of service on Monday, a sudden and surprising move that local union officials say was engineered by the luxury hotel that houses the…

The DC Department of Public Works is kicking off its annual citywide graffiti cleaning tour, with crews set to remove graffiti, illegal posters and stickers from public surfaces.