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Public housing tenants, legal advocates and D.C. Council members scrambled Monday to keep up with a rapidly changing proposal by Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) to replace the city’s housing authority board, a plan that she introduced late last…

As STEM becomes more of a focus for D.C. students, the public school system is looking for interesting ways to teach science lessons.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine said his office has filed a lawsuit against online orthodontics company SmileDirectClub over its customer refund policy.

D.C. housing advocates, public housing residents, and some members of the D.C. Housing Authority’s Board of Commissioners are scrambling to block a bill the D.C. Council will take up Tuesday that would dissolve the current board and…

Cats may be cute, but they’re also cold-blooded killers. Scientists tell us these fluffy brutes may be responsible for the slaughter of billions of birds and mammals each year.

The D.C. government is starting over on its effort to redevelop the Frank D. Reeves Center, a government building at the center of the U Street corridor whose revitalization has been years in the making.

The Southeast Neighborhood Library turns 100 this week. D.C.’s second-oldest library, located at 403 7th Street SE, opened on Dec. 8, 1922 — the year F. Scott Fitzgerald released only his second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, and the…

Metro is running trains more often on the Red Line during rush hour starting Monday. Trains will now operate every eight minutes, up from every 10 minutes, during those peak periods.

In advance of a key vote at tomorrow's legislative meeting, DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson has tweaked the proposed new DC Housing Authority oversight board, including the addition of two more members.

People who depend on the Housing Authority, or work with families who do, are concerned about the mayor’s effort to create a governing board of her choosing.

Meanwhile, only about a quarter of public and charter school students are participating in a citywide program that allows them to ride for free

The persistent influence of prosecutors has many observers wondering if the Department of Forensic Sciences can be fixed.

On the east side of Rock Creek Park, nestled between Beach Drive and 16th Street NW, lies a swath of recreational heaven with outdoor jungle gyms and picnic areas. There’s a hardcourt tennis stadium, which draws thousands of fans each…

Disenfranchising a city of more than 700,000 people, it turns out, requires a lot of work, if the contretemps between the D.C. municipal court system and the U.S. Senate is any indication.

A new report from the D.C. Auditor says internal oversight practices at the troubled D.C. crime lab were broken and ineffective long before the lab lost its accreditation last year.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) and top public safety officials on Friday offered a public show of support for Karima Holmes — her choice to lead the District’s oft-scrutinized 911 call center — defending her nomination while pushing back…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Friday stridently defended her nominee to head D.C.’s troubled 911 agency, Karima Holmes.

The District government is reissuing its request for proposals to redevelop the Reeves Center — what’s been a long-delayed process for one of the city’s most prominent sites — but this time without a requirement for the eventual developers…

Some DCHA commissioners will host an unofficial meeting with Empower DC ahead of a D.C. Council vote on a bill that would reconfigure the board.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser gathered the top chiefs from the city’s public safety agencies to talk about plans to make holiday shoppers feel safer in commercial districts.