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LaTisha Nicholson’s death shows how a broken health-care system leaves people vulnerable before, during, and after pregnancy.

In a report cosigned by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, the District’s public schools’ latest statewide assessment numbers showed students made gains in both English and math.

High school students have been the slowest to recover

The 5.8-magnitude earthquake that famously shook D.C. in 2011 sent the head of a gargoyle atop the Washington National Cathedral flying.

In a city struggling to control youth violence, the D.C. middle school team has a remarkable record on and off the field. It also needs help.

D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb is suing a celebrated upscale restaurant Swahili Village for rampant wage theft and egregious business practices.

D.C. government officials broke ground this week on a new recreation center in Anacostia that’s been years in the making. The $16 million project off Good Hope Road SE marks Ward 8’s first new rec center in 20 years — and Anacostia’s first…

Often in the morning, and sometimes at night, Rachelle Nigro takes to the streets around her condo building in Mt. Vernon Square.

As recreational marijuana sales prosper in Maryland, medical dispensaries in D.C. jump through hoops

A 911 dispatcher failed to communicate the urgency of the flooding last week at a D.C. dog daycare, officials said Monday. The floods resulted in the death of ten dogs.

On a Thursday morning this past month, a woman walked in to D.C. police’s Sixth District station and told officers she needed help. She said she was hearing voices, according to court records, and had told a friend she was suicidal.

In a lot behind Ketcham Elementary School in D.C.’s Anacostia neighborhood, ground was broken Monday morning for the city’s newest recreation center. The $15 million Anacostia Recreation Center will be the first new recreation center built…

The delay in alerting first responders to the flooding at a pet day care in Northeast D.C. last week was the result of a miscommunication between D.C.’s 911 call center and D.C. Fire and EMS about the situation’s severity, according to the…

With water pouring into the D.C. business, a dispatcher told firefighters there was a leak. Ten dogs were killed.

A dozen contenders or more could jump into the race to replace Gray should he decide to step back amid health challenges.

After a quarter-century of helping incarcerated fathers maintain connections with their children in D.C., a local organization founder is retiring to West Virginia.

The curfew D.C. plans to enforce may cause a shift in when and where juvenile crimes occur, but that’s not the change that’s needed

‘These are the people that deserve spotlight,’ said Claudia Gamez, CityFest DC organizer

During the covid-19 pandemic, D.C. officials could safely say the nation’s capital was not alone in struggling to reduce deadly gun violence, as homicides spiked here just as they did in cities across the country.

A bench-clearing brawl of sorts has broken out over alleged cheating in a Little League serving one of the District’s wealthiest neighborhoods.