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The office of D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced today that it’s suing six Maryland parents for $700,000 in fines for allegedly faking D.C. residency to send their children to D.C. schools for free.

WASHINGTON — The D.C. attorney general’s office is seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars from Maryland parents who it claims faked District residency to send their children to prestigious D.C. schools without paying tuition.

The District on Wednesday sued six Maryland parents, alleging that families sent their children to D.C. schools without paying the tuition required of students living outside the city. The lawsuits seek $700,000 in unpaid tuition and…

Capitol Hill neighbors found what appears to be pro-Nazi graffiti on a bench in Lincoln Park on Tuesday. The words “Waffen SS,” referring to a wing of the Nazi SS organization that reported to Heinrich Himmler, were scrawled in black…

By 2022, the District’s streets could look vastly different at night.

Amazon's selection of Northern Virginia for its second headquarters last month renewed interest in a host of transportation and infrastructural projects in the immediate area, from the CC2DCA pedestrian bridge to the Long Bridge. But what…

District officials had said the center would open before Nov. 1. Now it’s looking more like mid-January

WASHINGTON — London-based fast food chain LEON, which opened its first U.S. location earlier this year at Washington Square at 1050 Connecticut Avenue, NW, will open a second location in Mount Vernon Square next spring.

Residents Wonder Who Knows What’s Happening at Res 13 and RFK

Master stonemasons are still working to repair the damage caused by a rare earthquake that hit the city in 2011.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Andre Pittman and Gregory Cornes are on a mission to rid Washington of opportunistic vermin.

Fighting against a decade's worth of inept veteran care, The D.C. Mayor's Office of Veterans Affairs is continuing to prove their dedication to the veteran community with a Veteran Startup Accelerator program. 

Two key lawmakers — the incoming chairman of a House panel and the ranking Democratic senator directing the Interior Department’s spending — said they are firmly opposed to rushing through any legislation that could pave the way for a…

The D.C. Council plans to reintroduce legislation that would require movie theaters to provide more open caption screenings, after a Tuesday hearing in which dozens testified about frequent failures of captioning glasses.

WASHINGTON — The Harlem Globetrotters and D.C.’s Virginia McLaurin, who turned 109 this year, rekindled their friendship at a D.C. public charter school on Tuesday — and this time, she serenaded them with a song of her own devising.

Meow Wolf’s large-scale installation in Santa Fe is not exactly a play, not exactly a museum: It’s somehow both. Even the CEO of the company that built it, Vince Kadlubek, has trouble putting it into words. “It’s like walking inside of a…

D.C. officials have backed away from a proposal that would have made it easier for churches to qualify for a break on their water rates than other nonprofits, after critics said the policy could have been unconstitutional.

Night owls across the District rejoice: if all goes as expected, Metro will reinstate late night service on the system during the summer of 2019. That means we’ll again see midnight closing times on weekdays and 3 a.m. closures on the…

Monument Realty is making its first push into NoMa, buying a 25,000-square-foot lot on Patterson Street NE while continuing its pursuit of a larger, D.C.-owned parcel next door.

Between the announcement of commercial tenants for Takoma Theatre and the unveiling of Studio Theatre's plans to expand on 14th Street, it has been a busy month for major arts-related spaces and organizations in the DC area. Now Ford's…