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The DC Council this afternoon voted down emergency legislation that would have delayed implementation of ranked choice voting until 2027.

In the wake of media reports about a draft U.S. Department of Justice report faulting DC's departing police chief and the Metropolitan Police Department's crime reporting under her leadership, the House Committee on Oversight and…

Metro is looking to boost ridership with improved rail and bus service without any fare increases in the coming year, according to the proposed fiscal year 2027 budget released yesterday Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority…

Regional leaders are echoing objections raised by the National Transportation Safety Board about a provision in the final version of the fiscal year 2026 national defense funding bill that would permit exemptions to restrictions on…

As part of a broad package of 97 presidential nominations, three judicial appointments to the DC Superior Court cleared a key procedural hurdle this afternoon on a party-line 51-47 vote in the Senate.

DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb today announced a $1.5 million settlement with a construction company to resolve allegations of a wage theft scheme.

After two and a half years as chief of DC's Metropolitan Police Department, Pamela Smith is stepping down as of Dec. 31, midway through her four-year term.

The District reached a graduation rate of 78.7% in the 2024-25 school year — the highest mark since 2011, when DC began using the current methodology for calculating graduation rates and a 2.6 percentage point increase from the prior…

Three judicial appointments to the vacancy-laden DC Superior Court are part of the slate of presidential nominees under consideration this week for Senate confirmation — a package that is at least temporarily stalled after an insufficient…

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform yesterday voted 24-19 along party lines to approve legislation to prohibit DC from requiring that courts and tribunals defer to the mayor's interpretation of statutes and regulations. …

The DC Council this afternoon approved emergency legislation to relax several aspects of the District Department of Transportation's new rules for streateries that took effect yesterday and reduce the newly established fees.

Janeese Lewis George today launched her mayoral campaign as she aims to become the third Ward 4 councilmember to decamp from DC's legislature to its top executive office.

Seven years ago, soon after winning a second term, Mayor Muriel Bowser memorably generated pre-Thanksgiving headlines by questioning whether mumbo sauce deserves its reputation as "quintessential DC." This year, she's again making news…

More than 50 DC customers who were allegedly misled by a car-sharing company will receive refunds under a new settlement announced today by the DC Office of the Attorney General.

The authors of newly introduced legislation are calling for stronger protections for DC tenants living in dangerous housing and a fix to loopholes that have enabled problem landlords to delay repairs and address issues such as rodent…

A federal judge ruled yesterday that the federal government's ongoing deployment of National Guard troops in the District is illegal, granting the District's request for a preliminary injunction but also issuing a 21-day stay to give the…

Despite the objections of local officials, the House voted last night to establish cash bail and broader pretrial detention in the District, and to repeal the bulk of a police accountability law passed by the DC Council in 2022.

The House is set to vote tonight on a GOP bill that would remake the District's protocols for pretrial detention and bail, as well as a separate measure that would eliminate police accountability measures adopted by the DC Council several…

The DC Council voted unanimously today to remove a procedural impediment to the long-planned 11th Street Bridge Park, which will connect the Navy Yard and Anacostia neighborhoods via the District's first elevated greenway.

Ahead of expected House action on two DC-related bills this week, the District's three top elected officials issued a joint statement today objecting to those measures as well as 11 others advanced by a GOP-run House committee as…