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Tuesday’s general election in the District was a rainy affair with no surprises — except for a surge in voter turnout.

The District’s top education officials surprised a teacher in her elementary school this week, anointing her the city’s 2019 Teacher of the Year while students filled the cafeteria.

Meet Margaret Norwood. This 104-year-old woman voted in D.C.’s general election on November 6 at UDC Bertie Backus, according to a post from D.C. Mayor Bowser’s Instagram page. As Bowser’s post points out, when Norwood was born, women did…

WASHINGTON — For Allie Bobak, her job Tuesday at a polling site at Barnard Elementary School in Northwest was to only serve as a nonpartisan observer with the organization Observe DC. But that job quickly took on the added role of saving a…

Voters in two D.C. precincts Tuesday morning had more than rainy weather to contend with as they tried to cast their ballots. At the polling place in Eastern Market, where people in both precinct 88 and 89 are assigned to vote, lines…

What we lose when gruesome crimes stop dominating headlines.

In the second part of WTOP’s three-part series “The making of Marion Barry,” the future mayor arrives in a very different D.C. to the one we know today.

It's a rainy election day, but City Paper reporters are spending it talking to voters and candidates at polling places, and in the evening, at watch parties across the District. We'll add dispatches to this post throughout the day, so keep…

On a hill in the middle of Washington sit 12 acres of landscaped lawns, shaded walkways dotted with statuary, and a majestic cascading fountain. For decades, this public park has been the site of a weekly drum circle; in recent years, it…

WASHINGTON - A D.C. teacher facing deportation will return to the classroom after her case was reopened by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), her school announced Monday.

WASHINGTON — The District’s yearlong pilot program with dockless bike and scooter companies will become a permanent option for D.C. commuters in 2019, with new rules now set in stone for the companies that want to provide their vehicles in…

A four-year-old lawsuit challenging the District’s treatment of charter schools continued in court Monday, with a coalition of charters arguing to federal judges that the city’s unequal funding of schools is breaking the law.

Election Day is just about here and we have the rundown on everything you need to know, including where to vote, where to watch results, and what’s going on in the local races.

When Anne Mahlum founded Solidcore in D.C. in 2013, boutique fitness studios did not have much of a presence in the nation's capital, but she saw a wave coming.

The District’s top transportation and public works officials are asking three of the biggest mail carriers in the country to ensure that their delivery trucks do not obstruct bike lanes after an apparent uptick in such incidents reported by…

The future of sports is thousands of people in an arena watching video games on a big screen. Really.

One of the guaranteed write-in candidates for tomorrow’s local election isn’t a living, breathing human. According to Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler, those who are incensed by the outcome of the long battle over Initiative 77 are planning to…

If everything goes according to plan, the team behind DC's 11th Street Bridge Park (map) believe that the city's first elevated park will be complete in four years. UrbanTurf recently checked in to see how the project has stayed the course…

WASHINGTON — A lawsuit was filed Monday on behalf of D.C. residents in a new bid to put legal pressure on Congress to give the District of Columbia full voting rights and representation on Capitol Hill.

Only in their mid-twenties, Mr. Dias and Mr. Dorsey were Aiton Elementary’s senior teachers and created two of its highest-achieving classrooms despite significant challenges. But success came with personal sacrifice, and soon one decided…