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Activists are scrambling to collect thousands of signatures needed to revive a law approved by voters but overturned by the D.C. Council that would change how the District’s servers, bartenders and other tipped employees are paid.

In the fall of 2015, the House majority leader, a conservative pollster, and three Georgetown football players walked into a bar. Disgruntled Rep. Kevin McCarthy and his friend Frank Luntz, the pollster best known for coining the term…

Denise Lockett, an African American and Catholic grandmother, sat in the lobby of a District charter school waiting to deliver lunch to her 9-year-old grandson.

WHEN KAYA HENDERSON resigned as schools chancellor, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) bypassed internal candidates to select someone from outside the system. Her choice was forced to resign after about one year when it was revealed that he had…

Let’s have a show of hands. How many of you know what “currently educationally disengaged” means?

Half of the District’s lowest-performing schools are east of the Anacostia River, according to a rating system unveiled Friday that assigns the city’s schools one to five stars.

Mayor Muriel Bowser and Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans are pushing a $5.9 million tax break for an international company that has a history of racially discriminatory hiring practices in D.C.

Musician Marlee Mitton was sure that Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty was the only company that caters to a wide variety of skin tones. But after browsing through the makeup selection at a new beauty store in Dupont Circle, she discovered that there…

WASHINGTON — Nearly 40 percent of D.C.’s public schools, including charters, got a rating of three stars under the new school performance rating unveiled Friday.

For years, the fate of the famed — or reviled — J. Edgar Hoover Building has remained mired in uncertainty. With a near- tidal ebb and flow, the FBI’s headquarters has been walked to the gallows of demolition, only to receive a last-minute…

Since Amazon announced its decision to open up shop in Northern Virginia, the region has been awash in questions.

A team of citizen scientists monitoring one of Rock Creek’s tributaries found a creature they weren’t expecting earlier this year: an American eel. It wasn’t the first time an eel had been spotted in the area, but it was rare. The last…

Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder is getting help from District officials, congressional Republicans and the Trump administration as he tries to clear a major roadblock to building a new, 60,000-seat stadium on the site of RFK…

A 96-year-old woman died on Tuesday night after a fire overtook the first floor of her two-story row house in Shaw. The next day, Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie sent a letter to D.C.’s fire chief asking questions about the…

EYA Senior Vice President Aakash Thakkar, a residential developer who lives in a single-family home in Upper Northwest D.C., says that type of housing is far too common and the high-income area needs to do its part to allow more multifamily…

Urban planning nerds who are anxious to see what local lawmakers are going to do to the District’s Comprehensive Plan for development and growth will have to wait a little longer.

December marks the federal deadline for states across the country to release their new school rating systems, designed to bring transparency to measures of school quality. Both Maryland and D.C. released new websites this week. Officials in…

You can put your money on this: future elections in D.C. will look very different than the ones from the past. And it comes down to money.

Two interactive and Instagram-ready light installations have hit the Yards Park boardwalk to brighten cold nights through early 2019.

Just weeks ago, demolition began at the Sursum Corda Housing Cooperative, a 148-townhouse lower-income community in DC. Now, UrbanTurf can provide a first look at the redevelopment plans for the site.