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Five new charter schools are expected to open in the District for the 2020-2021 academic year despite concerns that they could strain city resources and result in even more empty seats at existing middle and high schools that struggle to…

The nominating committee hasn’t even met, but Paul Smedberg has already emerged as the front-runner to succeed Jack Evans as chair of the Metro board, officials said Friday.

Faculty and students say the building poses serious health and safety risks that the university has not addressed

Surrounded by loved ones he didn’t expect to see gathered at the Wilson Building, Leroy Tonic, 95, was celebrated and honored on Friday as the last-surviving D.C. government employee who served in World War II.

METRO HAS concluded its investigation into the actions of Jack Evans (D), the District’s Ward 2 council member who serves as board chairman. What the inquiry concluded and how it was conducted remain a mystery. Such secrecy is clearly…

There are cracks in the World War II Memorial on the National Mall, and they’re getting bigger. They include a 20-foot-long “hairline fracture” in one of the main pillars in the Atlantic section of the memorial, as well as smaller cracks…

Walter C. Pierce Community Park in Adams Morgan is a much-used, much-loved city park. The D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation plans to spend about $800,000 in changes there this fall. The projects include a new playground, dog-park…

District officials are investing a fresh coat of paint in the hopes of keeping pedestrians safer. They recently announced investment in crosswalk upkeep and expansion.

On the southwest corner of Fort Reno Park in Tenleytown sits an empty and abandoned building. Built in 1937 and known as the Chesapeake House, this two-story, five-sided brick building is now a shell of its former self, with boarded-up…

Earlier this year, a newly-formed Dupont Circle neighborhood association applied to the Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB) to extend the landmark boundaries associated with the Scottish Rite temple at 1733 16th Street NW (map), with…

At first blush, the dispute over relocating Banneker high school to the former Shaw Junior High site vs. building a middle school on the Shaw grounds might be chalked up to a clash of legitimate claims between competing public school…

National Park Service official says 20-foot crack poses no threat to the monument’s structural integrity or public safety.

With Memorial Day coming up, UrbanTurf is taking its bi-annual look at the neighborhoods across the city that have seen the highest home price appreciation this year.

A 20-foot hairline fracture is visible on a major pillar on the Atlantic side of the site

The report lists 72 examples of mismanagement between 2013 and 2017.

TGIF! ‘Jack Evans’ clients had interests before District government’ is A1 WaPo today, below-the-fold.

Strong storms damaged several different kinds of trees on and near the National Mall, including the nation’s capital’s most famous trees.

For D.C. residents living in Wards 7 and 8, getting healthy produce from the only three grocery stores serving the area can be a struggle. But a local nonprofit says that’s just half the battle.

Washington, D.C., considers training a group of residents to give tickets for some parking violations. Would it make streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists?

While Georgetown has long had exciting projects in the pipeline (the restoration and revamping of the C&O Canal, the long-dormant Georgetown streetcar line), the reality of development on the ground there has been much slower. Today,…