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A handful of D.C. schools started the year taking part in a pilot program to reimagine police on campus.

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Event planners aim to hold the National Cherry Blossom Festival in-person next year after the Covid-19 pandemic forced the hallmark tourist attraction to pivot to virtual events for the past two years.

After a hiccup earlier this year, plans to redevelop the former WTTG-Fox 5 headquarters site in Friendship Heights are back on track — and a familiar developer is back on the masthead.

The missing station became a symbol of how the city works—or doesn’t work—for its residents.

Jamal Thomas, who says he’s experienced homelessness for several years, had to leave the NoMa encampment when it was cleared — and will have to leave yet another encampment in Truxton Circle if a planned permanent clearing happens on Nov.…

D.C. lawmakers and activists on Tuesday strongly criticized a new effort by the city to close five large homeless encampments, even as senior city officials strongly insisted that the program is showing success in housing people…

The District’s newest Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner will remain at the D.C. Jail for now, after an effort to transfer him to a federal prison in Pennsylvania was reversed.

Voting by mail may be here to stay in the District, if new legislation introduced by the city council goes through.

Skanska will do something this week few other developers are willing to do in this market racked by historically high vacancy rates: break ground on a new office building in the District.

Former Philadelphia health commissioner Thomas Farley made national headlines in May when he admitted to ordering the cremation and disposal of human remains that belonged to victims of a 1985 police bombing in West Philadelphia years ago,…

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Here’s something to look forward to as everyone braces for the winter chill: D.C.’s annual rite of spring, the National Cherry Blossom Festival, will return to being all in-person when it kicks off in March.

D.C. Deputy Mayor Wayne Turnage fired back at critics of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s approach to clearing some of the District’s most sprawling homeless encampments during a roundtable discussion Tuesday, defending the pilot program and…

Political leaders in D.C. successfully scrambled on Tuesday to prevent one of their own — a D.C. elected official who holds his position while incarcerated in the city’s jail — from being transferred to a federal prison more than 100 miles…

Like voting by mail? New legislation in the D.C. Council would make it permanent for every election going forward.

Joel Caston’s attorney James Zeigler tweeted Tuesday afternoon that the U.S. Parole Commission says it will not transfer Caston. “Thank you to everyone who called and voiced your support on Joel’s behalf,” Zeigler wrote. “Everyone is…

Zhanyah Johnson smiled ear to ear as she crossed the football field at Theodore Roosevelt High School in the District to accept her crown.

For two months, Howard University students have been protesting what they describe as unacceptable living conditions on campus, including unsanitary dorms, a lack of housing or residential planning for freshmen, and underrepresentation of…

DCity Smokehouse, HalfSmoke and Highlands cafe are among the businesses prepping new locations east of the Anacostia River thanks to a new DC grant program.