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DC Councilmember Charles Allen is expected to introduce an amendment to the Budget Support Act on Tuesday that would modestly increase income taxes on individuals earning at least $250,000 to fund a local version of low-income housing tax…

The current odds-on favorite, according to at least one sportsbook, is Redtails.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday will debate a number of proposed tax increases ahead of a first vote on the city’s $8.5 billion budget for 2021.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday said the city is plagued by another epidemic besides the coronavirus — the “sense of hopelessness of kids with guns that will kill other kids” — after three people, including an 11-year-old boy, were…

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Dozens of publicly funded charter schools and elite private schools across the Washington region received millions of dollars in federal aid intended to keep nonprofits and small businesses afloat during the coronavirus pandemic, according…

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The emergency police-reform legislation the D.C. Council passed unanimously last month will be delayed slightly, a spokesperson for Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen confirmed on Monday.

A month after approving sweeping measures to overhaul policing in the nation’s capital as thousands demonstrated for racial justice, the D.C. Council is preparing to scrap the standards it set for using nondeadly force to stop suspects and…

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a dozen Native American leaders and organizations sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday calling for the league to force Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder to change the team name…

While his counterparts are beheaded, toppled and pitched into dark waters across the nation, Christopher Columbus seems largely ignored in the nation’s capital these days.

More than a month has passed since the world watched in horror as a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd by applying lethal pressure to the 46-year-old Black man’s neck while fellow officers stood there and watched.

After a three-month temporary closure, Calvert Woodley Wine and Spirits In D.C.’s Van Ness neighborhood, one of the largest and busiest liquor stores in the District, has reopened for business.

An hour before activists gathered downtown to press D.C. lawmakers for millions in additional housing funds, Council Chairman Phil Mendelson announced he will propose another $25 million for public housing repairs in the city’s 2021…

Kwame Onwuachi has stepped down as a executive chef of the InterContinental Washington D.C.'s Kith/Kin restaurant.

The death of 11-year-old Davon McNeal, who was shot and killed in Southeast D.C. on the night of the Fourth of July after a community cookout, has officials “saddened and outraged,” Mayor Muriel Bowser said during a briefing Monday.

Advocates of a ballot initiative to change how D.C.’s laws on magic mushrooms and other psychedelic plants are enforced have submitted what they say are enough signatures to put the issue to voters in November.

Cintia Cabib set out to produce a documentary on a single Washington artist. She wound up making a film about two — and about the ways that the seeds of creativity, when nurtured, can grow in the rockiest soil.

The Afro-Caribbean restaurant, a tribute to Onwuachi's family roots, remains open.