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Earlier this fall, we got our first look at the residential building on the boards for the Masonic Temple-owned lot at 15th Street and S Street NW (map). Some time next year, however, the project may look different.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority spent $51.3 million to buy its new headquarters in Southwest D.C., an acquisition that allows the agency to move forward on plans to transfer 700 employees out of the obsolete Jackson…

Washington, D.C., is getting a new school chancellor, and it’s Lewis Ferebee, a former teacher, principal, and the current superintendent of the Indianapolis Public Schools.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Monday named the Indianapolis schools superintendent to be the next leader of D.C. Public Schools, passing over a school system veteran who guided the district through a turbulent year.

DC Water workers spent six hours Sunday clearing a “massive mountain of grease” from a clogged sewer line at Barracks Row, a utility spokesman says.

New plans call to double the number of railroad tracks over the Potomac River between DC and Arlington, and to build a new pedestrian/bicycle bridge between Southwest Washington and Crystal City.

On the morning after the midterm elections, about 20 WUSA9 staffers—on-air reporters, news managers, producers and assignment editors—gather in a conference room at the station’s headquarters on Wisconsin Avenue NW to review the previous…

Want to see a prime example of cowardice? Read the “Interim Update on Duke Ellington Investigation” by the District’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education.

The District has spent more than $184 million on tax incentives that are supposed to encourage high-tech employment in the city. But those incentives don’t appear to be paying off, according to a recent report from D.C.’s Office of the…

D.C. schools continue to fall well short of meeting physical education and activity requirements set forth by the city, according to a report from the Office of the State Superintendent of Education.

An employee was shot inside a Whole Foods Market during an attempted robbery Sunday morning, terrifying shoppers and diners — many with small children — who fled the popular gathering spot in the city’s trendy H Street corridor.

On Election Day in November, D.C. voters decided four surprisingly contentious elections for seats on the D.C. State Board of Education. Those races highlighted divides between the traditional public school system and the city’s robust…

On Nov. 13, the District of Columbia opened the third of its new short-term family facilities, The Triumph, in Ward 8. It was preceded by The Kennedy in Ward 4 and The Horizon in Ward 7. Ribbon cutting ceremonies for each short-term…

Our region came together this year to secure $15 billion in dedicated funding for Metro, the backbone of our regional transportation network. This historic achievement was a result of bold public leadership in response to a clear public…

Indianapolis Public Schools superintendent Lewis Ferebee is a finalist for the open Washington D.C. schools chief job, according to someone with knowledge of the search process.

Two finalists to lead the District’s public schools emerged Saturday after a six-month search for a chancellor, according to people with knowledge of the process: Amanda Alexander, the interim D.C. chancellor, and Indianapolis Public…

The change follows last-minute negotiations with D.C. health leaders days before the Northeast D.C. hospital was slated to shut down its ER.

Washington, D.C. residents released from local correctional facilities are eligible for an academic and employment-centered fellowship program.

A growing number of citizens in Ward 8 agree that time remains of the essence in stopping, or at least retarding, forces that threaten to increase the cost of living for some of the District’s poorest residents and spur inevitable mass…

The morning of Sunday, Nov. 11, when the temperature hovered near freezing, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Denise Rucker Krepp called 911 to assist a homeless woman she came across near Union Station. Krepp described the woman, Helen…