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A heartbreaking call from a teenage girl, and other delayed emergency responses, should have moved the city to take action long before 10 dogs drowned

Multiple callers were kept on hold for three or four minutes, the data shows

The racial chasms of about 50 percentage points or more in math and reading proficiencies have been persistent.

This week's heat wave brought DC some record-breaking temperatures for early September, but it also helped fuel renewed complaints about DC Public Schools with faulty air-conditioning systems in some classrooms.

As police continue to search for a murder suspect who escaped yesterday from George Washington University Hospital, the Metropolitan Police Department's acting chief acknowledged that officers had not secured the man to a gurney when…

The mayor has seen a variety of prominent departures during her scandal-laden third term in office.

As the D.C. region continues to sweat through a record-breaking late-summer heat wave, some D.C. public school students don’t have air conditioning in their classrooms. It’s a problem the city has been grappling with for decades, but this…

At a council hearing Wednesday, Chairman Phil Mendelson grilled DCPS officials over ongoing delays in submitting new food service contracts to the council for review, and pushed for a more specific timeline for getting the contracts…

Apathy — not bad policy or low funds — is what usually derails homeless students. Officials fixed Kamari Felton’s financial aid after his story published.

A murder suspect escaped from George Washington University Hospital on Wednesday because D.C. police officers did not secure one of his arms to a gurney as they changed his handcuffs in the emergency room, acting D.C. police chief Pamela…

Migrants are continuing to arrive in D.C., a humanitarian crisis that's also playing out in other big cities and putting pressure on President Biden to do more.

A shortage of D.C. school nurses has become so critical that about half of public and charter schools will not have a nurse on campus full-time this year.

Ward 1 D.C. Councilmember Brianne Nadeau is re-upping a years-long effort to ban solitary confinement at the D.C. Jail and other facilities operated by the city’s Department of Corrections.

The debate over a new homeless shelter in Causey’s West End neighborhood has brought simmering tensions to a boil, as acquaintances describe years of troubling behavior.

Nearly 100 neighborhood representatives in D.C. signed a letter sent to city leaders Tuesday decrying the operations at the city’s 911 center and calling for more transparency.

Former schools chancellor Kaya Henderson talks about how to engage children in their own education

A citywide coalition of 97 advisory neighborhood commissioners is calling on Mayor Muriel Bowser and the DC Council to resolve "grave concerns" about the performance and dependability of the city's 911 call center operated by the Office of…

Amid forecasts of a record-setting heatwave this week, the DC Department of Parks and Recreation announced plans to keep two outdoor pools and 18 spray parks open past Labor Day.

After years of studying and discussing the idea of launching a curbside composting program, D.C. officials finally began rolling out a pilot program this month. Roughly 9,000 households will be participating — they’ll get food scraps…

After what felt like a blissful early autumn week, D.C. is under another hot weather emergency through Thursday. Temperatures nearing 100 degrees Fahrenheit are expected to sweep the region throughout most of the week, according to the…