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Mayor Muriel Bowser yesterday asked DC's inspector general to consider a review of three allegations deemed outside the scope of a recent investigation that sustained sexual harassment complaints about former deputy mayor and chief of…

The District will receive just over $100 million in federal funds to increase access to affordable, reliable high-speed internet, according to a White House announcement yesterday.

The DC government employee whose accusations of sexual harassment by a top mayoral adviser led to his abrupt departure provided extensive and explicit details about her allegations in an interview with The Washington Post.

As Mayor Muriel Bowser and some other local officials have garnered occasional headlines about their interest in hosting a new Washington Commanders stadium, WaPo is reporting that tensions have emerged over two of DC's existing sports…

DC officials celebrated a key milestone in the construction of the new Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center facility on the St. Elizabeths East campus by signing the final steel beam in the hospital's frame.

Mayor Muriel Bowser said today that she doesn't see a need for a new, independent investigation into the allegations of sexual harassment by former deputy mayor and chief of staff John Falcicchio sustained by the Mayor's Office of Legal…

A three-month investigation by the Mayor's Office of Legal Counsel has substantiated allegations that former deputy mayor and chief of staff John Falcicchio sexually harassed an employee in his office, making sexual advances and sending…

A new bill from Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto aims to increase transparency at the often-criticized Office of Unified Communications, the agency that operates the District's 911 and 311 call centers.

The Bowser administration is presenting two downtown events on Monday to commemorate Juneteenth 2023.

House Republicans fell short yesterday in their effort to override President Joe Biden's veto of a resolution disapproving the District's police reform law.

The DC Council voted unanimously this afternoon to approve an amended version of the Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Support Act after opting to maintain an exemption from the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act for any new office-to-residential…

As construction proceeds on the long-controversial redevelopment of the shuttered McMillan Sand Filtration Plant site, Mayor Muriel Bowser and city leaders today held a "beam signing" ceremony to highlight progress on a community center,…

A new bill introduced by Ward 2 DC Council member Brooke Pinto seeks to enable civil enforcement against fare evasion in the District by closing what's been described as a loophole in the current law.

The unhealthy air quality in the District due to smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted modifications to DC government operations for the afternoon, the mayor's office announced.

House Republicans scrutinized DC's election laws at a public hearing today, as Democrats on the two committees holding the joint session pushed back against claims that procedures such as widespread mail-in voting and same-day registration…

A week after a rancorous debate on the same subject, the DC Council voted unanimously this afternoon to reduce the allowable rent increases for residents of buildings that fall under the District's rent control laws, generally meaning they…

Near the start of her second term, Mayor Muriel Bowser directed her team to identify opportunities to relocate DC agencies east of the Anacostia River as an economic development tool. Now, four years later, she marked the opening today of…

Mayor Muriel Bowser's administration today announced its long-awaited pick to redevelop the Reeves Center site at 14th and U streets NW, with the project slated to include a hotel, a new NAACP headquarters, municipal office space, and…

As Mayor Muriel Bowser heads into the sixth month of her third term, her administration is rolling out a new sabbatical program and transition planning in an effort to retain long-serving cabinet officials and smooth the replacement…

Efforts to pass legislation to limit rent hikes for tenants living in rent-controlled buildings ground to a temporary halt yesterday afternoon amid procedural wrangling over whose proposal to consider first.

The DC Council is slated to take a final vote on the fiscal year 2024 budget this afternoon, but legislators are first debating multiple amendments to the $19.7 billion spending plan.

President Joe Biden delivered yesterday on his threat to veto the GOP-initiated effort to overturn a police accountability law approved by the DC Council.

DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton joined with 13 House members from Maryland and Virginia this week in opposing a recently introduced bill to increase air traffic at Reagan National Airport.

Mayor Muriel Bowser joined leaders of the DowntownDC and Golden Triangle business improvement districts this morning to launch development of the Downtown Action Plan, which will lay out strategies and programs to revitalize downtown amid…

DC Council members Kenyan McDuffie and Janeese Lewis George are pushing the District's chief financial officer to get DC Public Schools teachers the retroactive pay they're owed under a recently ratified contract.

The DC Department of Public Works is kicking off its annual citywide graffiti cleaning tour, with crews set to remove graffiti, illegal posters and stickers from public surfaces.