Ward 8

A 28-year-old man who D.C. police said left the scene of a crash while driving a vehicle owned by D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. has been charged in connection with the case, according to court documents.

Hundreds of revelers, including many of D.C.’s political and cultural elite, celebrated the grand opening of the region’s seventh Busboys and Poets on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE during a red-carpet extravaganza.

When the D.C. Public Charter School Board voted in December to initiate revocation proceedings for National Collegiate Prep, a Ward 8 charter high school founded 10 years ago that educates about 250 students, few could say they were really…

Restaurateur Andy Shallal debuts the seventh location of his socially conscious cafe.

At the corner of Malcolm X Avenue and Martin Luther King Avenue in Congress Heights sits a federal park that’s known mostly to people who live in the area. Officially known to the National Park Service as Shepherd Park, residents have long…

It’s been over nine months since DC’s highest court rejected redevelopment plans for Barry Farm, awarding a major victory to residents suspicious of relocation and the city’s approach to revitalizing public housing. But, while the project,…

The researchers could have led with the numbers — homes purchased, local small businesses assisted, construction worker trainees placed, pounds of fruit and vegetables harvested.

Everyone has a story, a tale that shaped who they are, or where they have been; but not everyone shares their story. And even fewer people know the power of their life can transform other individuals.

Children and families in D.C. may get an opportunity to better prepare for the future with a new program that hopes to help Ward 8 families build savings accounts.

Only three households remain at Barry Farm, the historic 444-unit public housing community the District and its partners hope to redevelop in the coming years.

WASHINGTON — Walking some of D.C.’s most dangerous streets, a yellow T-shirt-clad team of ex-convicts and former gang members are being paid to root out and mediate problems in neighborhoods before they escalate.

The next phase of Southeast D.C.'s major redevelopment of the St. Elizabeths East campus is coming into focus.

A “town square” development by Redbrick LMD would include a hotel, housing, offices, retail, and a plaza

A team led by Redbrick LMD has been selected to redevelop a 4.2-acre portion of the D.C.-owned St. Elizabeths East campus into a mixed-use town square located between the Entertainment and Sports Arena and Congress Heights Metro station.

Cases will proceed against a Southeast Washington advisory neighborhood commissioner accused of threatening to shoot a rival commissioner and separately threatening to kill the mother of his child.

Some might not expect a school in southeast Washington, D.C., to have the only all-black robotics team at a national competition. Others might look at Hendley Elementary School’s Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and…