The District

First-time D.C. home buyers in Southeast Washington must abandon their homes amid unsafe conditions as D.C. officials scramble to provide aid.

As the city restarts safe passage programs, it is faced with a slew of pandemic-induced challenges.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has long resisted a judge’s order that the city reassess the contracts it awarded last year. Now her administration says they’ll start all over with a new procurement.

A linguist, educator and activist, she devoted her life to building a culture that celebrates deaf people and American Sign Language.

Not a single incoming freshmen at School Without Walls attended a DCPS middle school in the city’s poorest wards.

Parents can opt out of testing. Advocates feared that an earlier requirement to consent to testing could mean not enough kids would be screened for the virus.

HOUSE OF THE WEEK | Henry and Nancy Kissinger, who lived in the home while he was secretary of state, were among the noteworthy residents of the 1819 Federal-style house.

He helped to negotiate the Helskinki Accords with the Soviet Union, then was the State Department’s chief hiring officer.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s 2016 nominee leaves the position vacant ahead of 2022 primaries.

The shooting early Wednesday occurred hours after another officer shot and wounded a man in Southeast.

Floyd Ray Roseberry needs medical treatment, a court-appointed psychologist said Wednesday.

There have been 132 killings in the District this year.

Under current rules, D.C. Public Schools teachers must get vaccinated or tested.

The District has now recorded 131 homicides this year.

The District has now recorded 129 homicides this year.