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Unhoused people and social service providers are searching for options after the National Park Service pushed up by several months a planned clearing of one of D.C.’s largest homeless encampments.

The organizers behind famed music festival Coachella are taking legal action against D.C.’s own Moechella event in a trademark infringement case.

A bill reintroduced to Congress this week seeks to give D.C.’s mayor control over the District’s own National Guard force.

As a first-time mayoral candidate in 2014, Muriel E. Bowser minced no words when she opposed efforts to weaken a century-old federal law restricting how high buildings can rise in Washington.

The local music festival came out of a 2019 protest against gentrification

The District would join other cities and states seeking to swap gas stoves and other fossil fuel-dependent devices for electric appliances, under a bill introduced Friday that is sure to add to a…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser reaffirmed her support for the Safe Passage Safe Blocks program following a shooting earlier in the week that left a man, who worked for the program, dead.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Friday said Congress should stay out of the city’s business as the House prepares to take up a pair of disapproval resolutions next week targeting D.C. legislation,…

Heather McGaffin, the No. 2 official in the Office of Unified Communications, will serve as “acting director” pending confirmation by the D.C. Council

The musical festival Coachella is suing the two local artists behind the creation of Moechella — D.C.’s go-go music protest on 14th and U Streets — over alleged trademark infringement.

Days after telling The Washington Post she “very strongly” supported a Republican bill that would compel federal workers to return to the office in person, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.)…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has appointed a new acting director for the Office of Unified Communications (OUC). The appointee, Heather McGaffin, was most recently deputy director for the agency and…

Now, there are two of them! Another e-bike rebate bill has popped up in the D.C. Council’s agenda.

McPherson Square, one block northeast of Lafayette Square in downtown Washington, is symbolic of the city’s capacity for denial. The unsheltered encampment at that site, now scheduled for closure on…

When the 65th annual Grammy Awards air on Sunday, there will be a new category announced under the spoken word umbrella: Best Spoken Word Poetry Album. And followers of D.C.’s literary scene may…

An internal investigation determined that Robert Glover violated MPD’s policy on social media but found no evidence that the site contained child pornography.

D.C. officials told lawmakers this week that the city saw an $834 million budget surplus at the end of the 2022 fiscal year, but also warned of possible economic and fiscal uncertainties in the…

A nonprofit dedicated to after-school education in underserved neighborhoods opens a new headquarters Friday near Fort Stanton Park.

A majority of District Councilmembers, led by judiciary and public safety committee chairperson Brooke Pinto (D-Ward 2), introduced legislation aiming to ensure residents of D.C. jail and other…

Picture it: Apartment buildings rising roughly as high as Paris’ Arc de Triomphe, neighboring K Street’s elite law and lobbying firms. Window shopping in Farragut Square and watching bakers pull warm…