Elections

Ward 5 D.C. Council hopeful Faith Gibson Hubbard won the endorsement of incumbent Kenyan McDuffie on Wednesday.

But the D.C. Chamber of Commerce won’t release the video.

The D.C. primary election is coming up next month, but voters won’t have to wait that long to cast a ballot, because ballots are currently being mailed directly to the homes of registered voters across the nation’s capital.

As political debates go, the showdown Monday night between Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and her three challengers for the Democratic nomination for D.C. mayor was mostly free of fireworks.

Salah Czapary, the former D.C. police officer running to knock off Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau, has had one heck of a month so far.

The time has arrived: the D.C. Board of Elections will start mailing out ballots to most D.C. voters starting today, meaning that in the coming days you’ll be able to perform your civic duty ahead of the June 21 primary. (The ballot…

D.C. Council candidates shared their plans to address the District’s housing crisis, a major focus during a forum Sunday, hosted by the D.C. Tenants Advocacy Coalition, TENAC.

In a mayoral election headlined by three candidates who already hold city office, James Butler’s pitch to D.C. voters is straightforward: The lawmakers on the ballot have had years to remedy issues plaguing the District, he says. And if…

Public safety and schools. Those two issues are key to the health of any city, and they explain in large part why the District of Columbia rebounded from its hard times in the 1990s to thrive. Mayor Anthony Williams (D) overhauled police…

As the District’s first elected attorney general, Karl A. Racine gave shape to the office, elevating its importance and prominence. He instituted reforms of the juvenile justice system, established an office of consumer protection, cracked…

D.C. residents will soon see a ballot appear in the mailbox, giving them a chance to vote on the city’s mayor, six seats in the city’s legislature and, for the first time in four years, a new attorney general to replace Karl A. Racine (D),…

If the growing number of campaign signs, candidate mailers, and chatty canvassers weren’t enough of a hint, it’s clear that D.C.’s June 21 primary election is drawing near. And from now until then, we’ll be collecting all of the political…

With Kenyan McDuffie off the ballot, the race has gotten a lot more complicated.

With the Post editorial board’s endorsement of Faith Gibson Hubbard, the race is starting to come into focus.

Ward 4 council member Janeese Lewis George is endorsing Ward 5 candidate Zachary Parker, the second lawmaker to back a hopeful in the hotly contested race.

Two years after winning election to the D.C. Council as a left-leaning advocate for supporting middle-class residents and reducing reliance on police, Ward 4 council member Janeese Lewis George announced her endorsement Thursday in the…

Orange called Parker’s decision to come out “a matter of convenience.”

Mayor Muriel Bowser spent $130,000 in taxpayer money to send residents a booklet boasting about her administration in the middle of her re-election campaign, public records show.

As D.C. emerges from the covid-19 pandemic of the past two-plus years, it faces numerous challenges. Combating a rise in violent crime, addressing student learning loss and spurring D.C.’s post-pandemic recovery are just some of the issues…

Gay former D.C. police officer Salah Czapary, who’s running in the city’s June 21 Democratic primary for the Ward 1 D.C. Council seat, and gay D.C. school board member Zachary Parker, who’s running in the primary for the Ward 5 Council…