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Young cadets Queen Anunay and Kishia Clemencia stood out in their class at the D.C. fire academy as being among the few women in a male-dominated field. Of the department’s 1,550 members at the time, 35 were women.

Local tech executives are urging D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to speed up the regulatory process laying the groundwork for next-generation wireless networks — especially now that Amazon is putting a portion of its second headquarters in the…

The pairing of five never-before-seen Glenn Ligon paintings with wallpaper by Andy Warhol is practically an essay about the National Mall.

The National Park Service said Thursday that it has started a 15-month project to restore the roof and clean the marble at the Jefferson Memorial.

Good Thursday morning. City Paper has an interview with the Rev. Rowena Joyce Scott, the former manager of the Park Southern apartment complex in Southeast indicted on federal charges.

The number of anti-LGBT hate crimes reported in D.C. in 2018 nearly doubled from the number of reported cases in 2016, according to recently released data by D.C. police.

Traditionally, homeowners hire property managers to rent out their homes, and communal living has occupied its own space on the margins. Now, a new company wants to combine the co-living concept with a property management approach, all on…

Did you see that projection on the Trump Hotel last year that read “Pay Trump bribes here”? What about the one on the Environmental Protection Agency that read “Don’t let a climate denier take over the EPA”? Or maybe you caught the one…

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

Trouble continues to roil The Horizon, a Ward 7 homeless shelter that opened just last fall. The Department of Human Services discovered that the social services nonprofit tapped to run the shelter’s day-to-day operations appeared to…

On February 2, 2019, a small group of witnesses at All Souls Episcopal Church attended the induction of the first District all-girl troop of Boy Scouts of America (BSA). Troop 248 is comprised of twenty girls, ranging from ten to…

This time, they want it to be different.

As Lewis Ferebee faces confirmation hearings before securing the top job in Washington, D.C., schools, his record as superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools offers insight into how he would lead.

Evidence of discrimination in enforcement drove D.C.’s City Council to decriminalize transit fare evasion. But cities should consider abolishing fares entirely.

WASHINGTON — D.C. and federal authorities are cracking down on armed felons in an attempt to bring down the District’s rising homicide rate.

D.C. lawmakers are proposing a new center to study gun violence, a move that would place the District in the vanguard of local governments seeking to fund research that gun-safety advocates say has been neglected by federal officials.

The center will début at a centrally located church on Feb. 12

At it stands, Democratic voters in Washington, D.C., will be last in the nation to weigh in on who should challenge Donald Trump in 2020’s presidential contest. But some local politicos want to change that.

D.C. police and federal agents will work closely together this year in a crackdown on convicted felons illegally carrying guns in the city, a law enforcement strategy prompted by a steep increase in homicides in 2018, officials said…

Dorothy Butler Gilliam has lived to be a sage octogenarian. She has also lived a remarkable life: daughter of the segregated South, front-line chronicler of the dismantling of Jim Crow and ascension of the civil rights movement and most of…