Ward 8

How one school is using co-teaching and computer-based learning to maximize the amount of individual attention each student receives

From a corner table at the IHOP on Alabama Avenue SE, Rev. Rowena Joyce Scott pleads her case—or some of it anyway.

Federal authorities on Thursday indicted Rowena Joyce Scott, a onetime political power broker in Southeast Washington, on charges including wire fraud, credit card fraud and filing false income tax returns.

On DC’s MLK Avenue, Where Over-Policing Reigns, King’s Dream Is Far From a Reality for Residents

A Ward 8 business owner says he lost a construction bid for the Entertainment and Sports Arena despite a system meant to help local companies.

For years, Philip Sambol has wrestled with the question of how, exactly, to open a community-focused, locally-owned, non-profit grocery store in neighborhoods historically overlooked by traditional supermarkets.

In an Oct. 2 news release, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced a proposal for mixed-use development in Ward 8, the city’s most impoverished community, located east of the Anacostia River. The ambitious project, Bowser stated, would be…

A proposed solar array would deliver power to the people of Ward 8.

Over 90 percent of the students at D.C.’s Thurgood Marshall Academy live in the city’s two poorest neighborhoods. Every graduate since 2005 has been accepted to college

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) heralded the opening of the first medical marijuana dispensary east of the Anacostia River, adding that she hopes to see new recreational marijuana dispensaries eventually open throughout the city.

With the official opening of Anacostia Organics on Thursday, communities east of the river finally have a medical marijuana dispensary. Mayor Muriel Bowser, D.C. Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon…

Ward 7 and 8 businesses that received funding to work on the Entertainment and Sports Arena may not be based there.

It's the first dispensary east of the Anacostia River.

The development pipeline along Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue continues to grow.

Every day after school, children impatiently wait their turn to enter the homework help room at Horton’s Kids Community Resource Center. As they fidget in line, they can’t help but notice the high school diplomas and graduation pictures of…

Residents of the District’s Ward 8 can soon add Good Food Markets to the short list of fresh, healthy food options in the community. According to Mayor Muriel Bowser, the grocery store located at 4001 South Capitol Street Southwest is…

The Veritas Law Firm shepherds restaurants through the process of obtaining their liquor licenses.

Detrice Belt is moving out of Barry Farm housing development in Southeast, DC after getting weekly notices marked urgent and plus a 90-day notice to vacate by Friday, December 21st.

LYFT’S FILING this month for an initial public offering was followed by a display of public-spiritedness: The ride-sharing company is partnering with nonprofit Martha’s Table to offer discounted trips to supermarkets in the District’s Wards…