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It's been expected but is now official: The DC government will require its employees and contractors to be fully vaccinated or agree to weekly COVID-19 tests.

The DC government is reportedly close to issuing a vaccine mandate for its employees, with the issue of discipline for unwilling workers among the subjects being discussed in talks with union leaders.

From Arena Stage to Shakespeare Theatre Company to Woolly Mammoth, the bulk of DC's theaters have joined together to require audience members to provide proof of vaccination to attend indoor performances.

While the attorney general oversees only a small portion of the DC government's workforce, Karl Racine has stepped out in front of Mayor Muriel Bowser on a thorny issue: a vaccination mandate for employees.

With the DC Council having already given initial approval to a $17.5 billion budget two weeks ago, the bulk of the discussion on its second vote Tuesday focused on two small segments: an $11 million supplemental request from Mayor Muriel…

The DC Council put the emphasis on legislators supporting "a combination of strategies to reduce violent crime," via a last-minute budget infusion. The mayor's chief of staff offered an alternative headline: "Council cuts proposal for new…

As DC's renewed indoor mask mandate took effect over the weekend, Mayor Muriel Bowser faced criticism over her own masking practices.

Mayor Muriel Bowser is restoring the District's indoor mask mandate as of Saturday morning in response to increased community spread of the coronavirus along with new information about the extra dangers presented by the delta variant.

Increased concern about gun violence and public safety is prompting a late push by Mayor Muriel Bowser to add 170 officers to the Metropolitan Police Department by the end of fiscal year 2022.

Metropolitan Police Department Officers Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to offer their firsthand accounts of the Jan. 6 insurrection as the new House investigation gets underway.

A week after the DC Council voted 8-5 to increase taxes on incomes in excess of $250,000, Mayor Muriel Bowser is encouraging legislators to "reconsider" their stance before taking final action on the DC budget.

Thursday night's brazen shooting on 14th Street NW has people "mad as hell," in the words of DC's new police chief — particularly coming as it did only a few days after the murder of a 6-year-old in Congress Heights in another drive-by…

DC officials for the first time added information on so-called "breakthrough cases" of COVID-19 that have occurred in vaccinated individuals, and the initial numbers show just how rare such cases have been in the District.

After riding up in a motorcycle, DC Police Chief Robert Contee on Wednesday announced his department's newly created Community Focused Patrol Unit, described as a data-driven effort to supplement the staffing available from the existing…

The two newest members of the DC Council helped pass a higher tax rate on incomes over $250,000 — a reversal of last year's budget vote, when a similar revenue-raising effort fell short.

After a violent weekend in the District and on the eve of a DC Council vote on next year's budget, Mayor Muriel Bowser said she's directing the Metropolitan Police Department "to use any overtime necessary to meet our public safety needs"…

Anyone expecting Mayor Muriel Bowser to use her appearance on Friday's "Politics Hour" to announce she'll be running for a third term didn't quite get what they wanted — but she did drop another in her series of hints.

Three months ago, an additional 41 new coronavirus cases in the District's daily update would almost certainly have seemed like a favorable sign. But with cases having plummeted locally this summer, Thursday's COVID-19 report is spurring…

For anyone who's peered through the metal gates into a closed Metro station on a weekend night, relief is in sight — at least until the clock strikes 12.

A unanimous DC Council voted Tuesday to lay out a timeline for the end of the District's eviction ban in hopes of avoiding a feared "tsunami of evictions" if the pandemic restrictions all expired two months after the public health…