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Walking into Christopher Stewart’s classroom at Johnson Middle School feels less like stepping into a library, and more like entering a sunlit coffee shop. Windows out to a courtyard completely line the back wall, across from a wall of…

Mayor Muriel Bowser hasn't yet announced whether she'll seek a third term, and questions swirl around Attorney General Karl Racine's plans. But other races on DC's June primary ballots are starting to take shape.

"We hire on personality and train for the rest. As long as they care about what we’re doing and are friendly, they can work here."

The children will never recover from what happened inside a D.C. apartment. The owner of the illegal gun faces far less serious consequences.

Why it matters: The District’s spike in gun violence is being linked partly to rundown properties that city officials and residents say have become magnets for criminal activity.

Just over 100 residents of four D.C. homeless encampments will be offered one-year housing leases as part of a pilot program, said Wayne Turnage, Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services at a public meeting on Wednesday night.

The District is preparing to embark on an unprecedented effort to combat homelessness.

The growing number of Georgetown students and staff dealing with a gastrointestinal illness this week appear to have come down with a case of norovirus.

Back in March 2020, when American children were sent home to learn virtually, Jovan Davis Jr. was a fifth grader, still shy of 5-feet tall and just learning how to write full paragraphs.

When we listen to a recording of an old song — say, the D.C. nightclub semi-fixture Eva Foster singing “You’ll Never Know” roughly 68 years ago — something excellent happens: the air that surrounds us shakes the same way it shook in 1953.…

For her acclaimed new book, Morowa Yejidé painstakingly built a portrait of a vanished city’s overlooked Black community

When friends ask Christian Di Nicolantonio about the sport he competes in for Catholic University, he tells them, “It’s the one with the big stick at the Olympics.” To most folks, that’s likely the extent of their understanding of pole…

Arena Stage has announced the remaining run of “Toni Stone,” a play about the first woman to play professional ball in the Negro Leagues, has been canceled due to a non-COVID related health issue.

On Saturday, with much fun and fanfare, D.C.’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library celebrated its COVID-delayed grand reopening following a $211 million renovation.

Public schools in Washington, D.C., have made tremendous progress in the last 14 years — most notably, in fourth-grade reading. Still, the district faces a literacy crisis that has largely gone unresolved.

As ridership hovers near historic lows, Metro’s leaders are hopeful federal workers soon will return but acknowledge they need other options if that group stays away

Just a couple of hours after five people were shot outside a shopping center in Southeast D.C., John Branch, commander of the D.C. police department’s Seventh District, walked around Alabama Avenue talking to members of the community…

Following the Centers for Disease Control’s decision to recommend a COVID-19 booster shot for several millions Americans, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and DC Health are “encouraging” eligible residents to receive their third dose of vaccine.

The markings included a swastika, a pair of SS Lightning Bolts — a white supremacist, neo-Nazi symbol — and a Star of David crossed out with an “X."

The $21 million overhaul of federal property includes a pavilion, a play area and a new fountain.