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For more than three decades, D.C. has hosted an Adoption Day and at this year’s annual celebration, dozens of families who have already created forever homes in spirit will add legal fusion to their family units when a judge signs their…

When students returned to the District’s Capital City Public Charter School in September, they encountered old friends, new teachers and a one-of-a-kind classroom. Rather than walls and books, it bursts with plum and cherry trees,…

Teachers and staff members at Mundo Verde Bilingual Public Charter School are nearing a historic moment: They’re a vote away from settling with their bosses on a union contract, the first time that has happened at a D.C. charter school.

A coalition of Washington arts leaders are urging city officials to preserve Dupont Underground, fearing that the popular arts space will be turned over to developers or another group after the nonprofit’s lease expires in April 2020.

THE LATEST scores on standardized tests show the District’s traditional schools outperforming the gains made by the city’s public charter schools. You might think that would rankle the executive director of D.C.’s Public Charter School…

The region’s top prosecutors are announcing a local rollout of a national crime initiative aimed at curbing illegal guns, called Project Guardian DMV.

News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton November 15, 2019 Contact: Jack Miller WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), and Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) released a…

The death of a homeless man whose body was found this week at Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington may be linked to the recent cold snap and temperatures that have dropped below freezing on some nights, according to authorities.

This week, I received an email announcing that Vivek H. Murthy has endorsed Kishan Putta for the D.C. Council. Thus, a trifecta: I don’t know: 1) who Murthy is, 2) who Putta is or 3) which council seat Putta is seeking.

Law enforcement agencies in D.C., Maryland and Virginia, are partnering under a new initiative from the U.S. Justice Department that seeks to better enforce existing gun laws, state officials announced at a joint press briefing on Friday. …

President Trump’s Washington hotel has fallen well behind competing properties despite continuing to charge among the highest rates in the city, according to financial information provided to potential bidders as his company tries to sell…

The kiosk, at the Takoma Recreation Center, will allow residents to do their own testing.

The Pod D.C. hotel in Chinatown, which was the first for that chain in the city, will switch brands early next year to become the District’s first Motto by Hilton.

More than six months after fare evasion was decriminalized in the District, Metro is still clashing with the D.C. Council over the policy.

TGIF. Over the summer, Attorney General Karl Racine surveyed city residents over how they felt about drug kingpin Rayful Edmond III getting a reduced sentence.

Mirabelle restaurateur Hakah Ilhan goes more casual with Brasserie Liberté.

She met with the president and the prime minister, talked transportation and health care with local officials, visited an orphanage and an ancient church, and smiled broadly as a street was christened for her more than 7,000 miles from her…

The investigation into ethics allegations against D.C. Council member Jack Evans released by the council last week provided fresh details about his dealings with a digital sign company at the heart of several probes into whether Evans used…

Teachers, staff, and management at one campus of the Mundo Verde Bilingual Public Charter School in D.C. have agreed on a tentative union contract, putting the popular school a vote away from becoming the first charter school in the city’s…

Green today. Gone tomorrow. With the blast of Arctic air on Tuesday night, and temperatures crashing into the 20s, the foliage on ginkgo trees didn’t stand a chance.