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Keith Pettigrew, the CEO of Alexandria’s housing authority, has been appointed executive director of the D.C. Housing Authority as it seeks to correct years of mismanagement and move past a grueling federal review.

Mayor Muriel Bowser cut the ribbon this morning on a new downtown headquarters for cybersecurity firm Virtru — the first company to receive incentives through the District's Vitality Fund, part of the Bowser administration's announced…

About one-third of residents experienced food insecurity in 2023, according to the Capital Area Food Bank’s hunger report

Despite rumors of a potential retirement, White could soon cruise to a third term as the field of challengers grows.

The hearing marked a turning point in Amtrak’s attempt to control the station’s operations to pursue multibillion-dollar investments

Chef James Robinson didn’t expect to close his H Street restaurant, KitchenCray, just three years into operation. Robinson, who overcame homelessness and is now a chef to the stars, opened it back in October 2020 because he wanted to bring…

A new study from the Capital Area Food Bank says that 35% of DC residents didn't have enough to eat or know where their next meal was coming from at some point in the prior year.

Mayor Muriel Bowser and DC Council members visited a downtown fire station this morning for a 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony to honor the bravery of first responders who served that day and the memory of those who lost their lives to the…

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.