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In a once bustling alley at the center of downtown D.C., Gregg Rozeboom sat alone in his restaurant, again.

D.C. has been approved to issue residents facing financial hardship as a result of the pandemic an additional $300 in weekly unemployment benefits.

Fed up with years of deadly incidents and persistent safety lapses at Metro, Congress in 2017 approved the creation of an independent oversight body with the power to force transit officials to make changes.

The District’s longest-serving education appointee announced Tuesday that she would step down from her position, creating a high-profile vacancy in the middle of a pandemic that has entirely changed the way educational services are…

Happy Tuesday. The DC government is spending $3.3M on a new "Internet for All" initiative intended to help close the digital divide by providing free internet access for up to 25,000 low-income students attending DC Public Schools and…

It was an unusual sight these days. Twenty children walked into their public school building Thursday after waving to the executive director and principal on the sidewalk.

One of D.C.’s top education officials is leaving her post.

Mayor Muriel Bowser announced a new initiative on Tuesday to provide free internet access to up to 25,000 low-income students and families in the District. The move comes one week after online classes began for students in D.C. Public…

Local pizza-and-sliders chain Matchbox has closed its large, two-story location on 14th Street in Northwest D.C. Monday was its final day.

The D.C. government will cover the monthly Internet bills for about 25,000 low-income families who have students in the city’s traditional public and charter schools, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s (D) administration announced Tuesday.

D.C. health officials on Tuesday added Montana and Ohio to the list of states considered “high-risk” because of the coronavirus pandemic, marking the latest step in the city’s attempt to mitigate transmission of the virus.

D.C. State Superintendent of Education Hanseul Kang will step down next month to join the Yale School of Management.

He started here, stayed here, built here, and never considered any other pastures to be greener than these.

Here’s what I envision: dozens of blue Hechinger wheelbarrows being pushed down Pennsylvania Avenue, their owners clad in canvas Hechinger aprons.

6/8/2020 at 5:27 p.m.: DCist/WAMU is retracting a story that reported voters in the District would be asked not to wear clothing that said “Black lives matter” within 50 feet of polling places this November.

Criminal charges will be filed after all.

Is another school-to-residential conversion in the works in DC?

As he watches, David Rosenblatt’s 8-year-old son Nico takes part in a virtual speech therapy session. Rosenblatt pays for this therapy out of pocket as one of the various tools the family uses to assist Nico, who has complex developmental…