There are “people [who] are still working there, and you're telling them that their work doesn't matter.” ~ Former FDA employee
Voters grieving Kamala Harris’s election loss are having a hard time keeping an appetite. Dietitians say that's normal.
Teachers and parents cite D.C. Public School’s lack of communication and poor temporary schooling facilities as reasons they have little faith in the success of the School Without Walls at Francis Stevens’ modernization...
Just under 2,000 trained election workers are at sites across the District today, prepared to assist voters and ensure their ballots are protected and counted.
The DC Court of Appeals cleared the way for demolition to begin on the McMillan Sand Filtration Site despite ongoing court challenges.
The District of Columbia school system expects a name to be approved in December. “There's this complacency, it's a white complacency,” a lead activist says.
Residents and police officials are concerned about the deadly uptick in gun violence in Ward Three and the District.
Local bike advocates argue that AU’s Campus Plan doesn’t proactively encourage biking in a neighborhood that needs additional infrastructure.
Propane tank explosions boom through the neighborhood.
Some Tenleytown businesses are closed this weekend after a water main burst in Arlington led to a boil water advisory for areas along Wisconsin Avenue.
D.C. Council hosted a charged, day-long hearing about the Community Safety and Health Amendment Act of 2019, a bill that would decriminalize sex work in the District. The room was packed, some testimony got heated and...
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