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Some Question Immediate Impact of Council Member McDuffie’s Bill

The region has seen a 25% decrease in people experiencing homelessness since 2017. D.C. saw a 32% decline in that period. The number of people experiencing homelessness was the lowest it has been since COG began coordinating counts in…

Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration cleared residents out of two tent encampments at the M Street and L Street underpasses near Union Station on May 13.

Anyone 12 and older will be able to receive a COVID-19 vaccine at several D.C. public schools starting Tuesday.

A week after D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s administration announced the resignation of Jenifer Smith as head of the city’s Department of Forensic Sciences (DFS) and said her final workday would be May 26, Bowser on Thursday declined to say…

In April, Mayor Muriel Bowser appointed healthcare advocate Amber Hewitt to lead the city’s newly created Office of Racial Equity. We checked in with DC’s new chief equity officer to see how it’s going so far.

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has asked the National Park Service to permanently close a portion of Beach Drive in Northwest to traffic.

D.C.’s mayor will soon name a new director for the city’s embattled crime lab.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled her proposed $17.5 billion budget for fiscal 2022 to the D.C. Council Thursday afternoon.

15-year-old Ivy City resident Mya Stuckey is going to celebrate tomorrow.

After decades of demands from residents, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser on Thursday announced that her administration would spend $20 million to turn a long-vacant school in Northeast Washington into a community center.

A Georgetown home with ties to Jacqueline Kennedy and a host of political and cultural bigwigs has hit the market for the first time in nearly a quarter century.

Beginning Tuesday, D.C. will restart all parking enforcement and cars will have to display valid registration stickers.

D.C. took the top ranking in the Trust for Public Land’s ParkScore index released Thursday.

When Congress passed the American Rescue Plan earlier this year, the $350 billion available in aid for states, counties and cities was little more than a really big pot of money. But the local impact of those funds became more clear on…

A 30-person rental housing task force convened by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser in January is recommending a “phased end” to the city’s comprehensive eviction moratorium, based on indicators such as COVID-19 case numbers, court capacity, the…

The District regained the top spot and Arlington held steady at No. 4 in an annual national survey of large U.S. cities with the best parks, as officials focused on equitable park access in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is looking to cut taxes and fees for businesses and pour hundreds of millions into housing in her new budget proposal, as $2.5 billion in federal stimulus money and an improving economy allow for a more robust…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Thursday proposed a fiscal 2022 budget that would increase spending on a vast array of projects, from housing to education to violence prevention to bike lanes, thanks in part to a flood of federal…

In another sign of a return to normal life in D.C. parking enforcement will start up again soon — but so will a way to pay off your old tickets without penalties.