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The chair hopes to use the savings to fund overnight bus service and reverse Bowser’s cuts to key housing programs.

Funding for emergency rental assistance has been restored under a final draft of the proposed 2024 budget being circulated ahead of a first vote in the D.C. Council on Tuesday, while plans for the K…

A generation ago, D.C.’s two top local Democrats shared a Northeast Washington stage with the country’s most powerful Republican, a White southerner who had just become House speaker and who tried to…

The revised vision for the rail station includes less parking, an underground drop-off area, and integrated bus, pedestrian and bike access

A lawsuit filed by seven D.C. voters represented by an anti-immigration group against the city’s Board of Elections is headed to federal court as the plaintiffs try to stop the District from…

One of D.C.’s foremost contributions to cumbersome design is the presence of the service lanes on either side of K Street NW in the heart of downtown. You know — those narrow spaces where delivery…

The nation’s capital is at a critical juncture: Crime is up. Homelessness is up. Housing affordability has worsened. Downtown is comatose as office workers often stay home. Plus, deep inequalities…

D.C. has banked its comeback plan on luring more residents to its struggling downtown. The number of increasingly obsolete office properties with the potential to be converted to apartments or condos…

A new health and wellness “destination,” including a spa, water park and restaurants could be coming to D.C.

D.C. is famous for its parks: some of them, like the grassy, manicured National Mall, draw tourists from around the globe. In fact, the District has been ranked number 1 for urban parks in the U.S.…

The U.S. Senate could vote as early as next week to block a D.C. police discipline and accountability bill approved by the city’s lawmakers last year, potentially putting Democratic senators in a…

Republican Sen. J.D. Vance (Ohio) introduced a resolution to block D.C.’s major police accountability legislation Thursday and expects to bring it to a vote next week — even though the congressional…

D.C. pledged in 2021 to find out if forensics errors resulted in faulty convictions, but it still has yet to launch this costly effort.

D.C. Public Schools unlawfully awarded 36 contracts worth an estimated $270 million over the last three years, raising significant concerns around its financial management and forcing the D.C.…

The top prosecutor in D.C. says the continued fallout from the District’s shuttered crime lab means his office has been unable to bring charges against suspected offenders in some cases.

Stopping the scheduled sunset of a deed tax hike could generate $104 million for the Council’s priority programs.

Destination DC has released 2022 tourism numbers that show 20.7 million domestic tourists visited the city last year, which is 91% of pre-pandemic numbers in 2019. Those tourists also spent $8.1…

Mayor Muriel Bowser is proposing an unprecedented cap on funding for the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH), leaving the local arts community concerned about the future of its funding…

D.C. officials on Thursday said that almost 21 million domestic tourists visited D.C. in 2022, a 10% increase over the year prior. And they unveiled what they say will eventually be a new destination…

A wellness company will work with D.C. officials to find a location for an affordable, resort-like spa with amenities such as a water park, indoor pool and sauna, officials said Thursday.