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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…

After a celebratory weekend in DC as the fencing around the U.S. Capitol came down, the appropriations bill that will determine emergency spending on security upgrades there is the subject of partisan bickering in the Senate.

Undocumented workers and others in DC excluded from government aid during the pandemic are pushing for $200 million in cash assistance from the DC government.

At least 17,000 more people moved out of DC during the pandemic than in the year before, a new analysis suggests.

The company that operates DC's sports betting program is behind on requirements to hire locally, the DC auditor found.

There were 285 COVID-19 cases reported in the region — DC and bordering jurisdictions — in the week ending July 4. That's an increase of 65 cases from the previous week, following 11 weeks of consecutive declines.

Fourth of July on the National Mall is back, along with neighborhood parades slated for the holiday.

The mayor and DC Council are at odds over how to deal with the giant Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, the oft-criticized agency that lawmakers sought to break up.

The DC Council voted on Tuesday to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco.

DC is hoping to turn everyday citizens into organizers for the vaccination effort, pledging to award individuals a $51 gift card for each unvaccinated person they bring to one of three clinics for a shot.

The seven-day average for new coronavirus deaths in the city went down to zero on Friday, with no deaths reported over the past week.