Elections

In the backyard of his North Michigan Park home, Nathan Luecking, a self-described gentrifier, was explaining how he found common cause with D.C. native Charles Lockett, a longtime civic leader in the Northeast neighborhood.

Companies with business before the District helped swell the mayor’s latest fundraising haul.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) outraised challenger Robert C. White Jr. in February and early March as she seeks a third term as D.C. mayor. And with three months to go until the June primary and just weeks left to qualify for the ballot, it…

Mayor Muriel Bowser has fundraised three times as much as her top rival in her bid for a third term, raising a projected $787,200 in under six weeks, according to an Axios analysis of new campaign finance reports.

The restaurant industry initially signaled it wasn’t ready for a repeat of the Initiative 77 debate, but that could be changing.

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D) is endorsing Brian Schwalb, a longtime trial attorney and partner-in-charge of the Venable law firm’s office in the District, to become the city’s next chief legal officer.

A wide-open race to succeed Ward 3 council member Mary Cheh has produced a political frenzy in this sleepy neighborhood, with four residents of Palisades, in addition to a few not far away, running for the seat.

Six of the candidates registered for the June 21 Democratic primary appeared before hundreds of residents and virtually at the Ward 7 Democrats mayoral forum on March 5, expressing their views on issues affecting the ward and the city.

In years past, DC Public Schools employees running for the State Board of Education had to officially leave the classroom by submitting a Declaration of Intent to Not Return .

The at-large councilmember could run afoul of rules barring the use of government resources for her campaign.

Like prize fighters circling the ring, the three main contenders in D.C.’s mayoral race have spent the last few months taking indirect shots at each other. But it wasn’t until Saturday that Mayor Muriel Bowser, Councilmember Robert White…

Over the course of a recent week, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser presided at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new hospital, unveiled an anti-crime initiative and celebrated the opening of the city’s first drive-through Starbucks.

Rising crime in the nation's capital took center stage at the year's first D.C. mayoral debate on Saturday, with Mayor Muriel Bowser and challengers outlining competing approaches to addressing violence.

There were more candidates than vegetable stands at the Palisades Farmers Market last weekend.

“If you look at any of the development projects on public lands, there is no difference between what they’re doing today and what we were doing 15 years ago,” White says.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s most persistent critic these days is neither of her two top challengers in the June Democratic primary.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is non-committal on attending a newly announced prime time debate hosted by Fox 5 DC and Georgetown University on June 1.

Phil Thomas, a fourth generation Washingtonian and the chair of Ward 3 Democrats, is the seventh Democrat to seek the Ward 3 D.C. Council seat.

City politicos are wondering about the mayoral campaign of Robert White, a rising star on the D.C. Council whose bid to defeat Muriel Bowser has yet to lift off.

A new bill in the D.C. Council would allow voters to cast ballots from their phones, tablets, or computers, which proponents say would simplify the voting process and enfranchise residents who are otherwise likely to sit out elections.