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D.C. public school students’ scores in math and reading dropped significantly between 2019 and 2022, with the learning losses most pronounced among Black, Hispanic and at-risk students.

The Washington Metrorail Safety Commission has given Metro permission to run up to twenty 7000-series trains a day. That’s a dozen more than they’re currently allowed to run.

D.C.’s first standardized testing results since the pandemic began show what local school leaders had expected: a substantial decline in reading and math proficiency, and the widening of an already troubling achievement gap between white…

Catching students up to pre-pandemic levels could take until 2027, researchers say

Proficiency rates in several subjects have decreased among at-risk D.C. students between 2019 and 2022, revealing a widening gap for some of the city’s most vulnerable students, according to education officials.

Young families and many child-care workers were dealt a huge blow last month when a court upheld a pernicious D.C. day-care regulation.

It has been over a decade since the proverbial race for carbon neutrality began globally and whether in the dead heat of the District summer or driving through a foot of standing water on Rhode Island Avenue, climate change is often not…

More real estate developers are buying office buildings and converting them to residential use. The most recently-announced project in D.C. is the upcoming conversion of two high-profile, but older buildings on Connecticut Avenue, north of…

A group of District residents, returning citizens, restorative justice, and activists held a virtual meeting Wednesday to brainstorm ideas of what city leaders should provide in a proposed new jail facility.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said trauma services will be made available to the victims in two separate shootings that involved teenagers.

A seemingly simple-looking bike lane and road reconfiguration in-the-making has spawned an election battle in a small portion of Capitol Hill that could see a current official recalled from office in November — and possibly re-elected once…

If you look at a hydrological map of the D.C. area, you’ll see a landscape that is criss-crossed by little streams, like veins in a body, endlessly churning water through our neighborhoods and parks toward the Chesapeake Bay and the…

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine’s (D) office Thursday announced the recipients of $150,000 in grants to help migrants arriving on buses from Texas and Arizona — an effort to assist local aid groups that have been overwhelmed since the…

While Lorde stumped most of D.C. by admitting her illegal act Monday night, she became an unwitting hero to a very small group.

Six local nonprofits will split $150,000 in grants from the Office of the Attorney General to help migrants arriving at Union Station by bus from Texas and Arizona.

A three-judge panel of the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that a ballot initiative that would eliminate the tipped wage in D.C. can remain on the November ballot, putting the controversial issue one step closer to being decided by…

The number of travelers who came to D.C. increased in 2021, but the total still remains significantly below pre-pandemic levels

Charles Egunjobi worked as an auditor with the D.C. government ensuring people complied with financial laws, but federal prosecutors say he had a side gig breaking them — operating a money-laundering scheme for a romance scam that netted…

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D) on Wednesday announced a lawsuit against billionaire Michael J. Saylor and the technology company he co-founded, MicroStrategy, alleging that Saylor has lived in D.C. for more than a decade while…

A revived initiative to phase out D.C.'s tipped wage system should remain on the November ballot, a panel of three D.C. appellate judges ruled Wednesday.