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With the National Park Service slated to clear the McPherson Square homeless encampment tomorrow, the chair of the DC Council's Housing Committee and four other council members are urging the federal government to delay its plans.

Mayor Muriel Bowser joined former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend this morning to celebrate the opening of The Ethel, an apartment building in Hill East that will house people formerly experiencing homelessness.

With about 100 beds in the city's homeless shelters available but unused each night, the DC Department of Human Services says there's no danger of maxing out the system's capacity, but advocates are predicting that the District may indeed…

The GOP-led House of Representatives voted late this morning to disapprove two laws enacted late last year by the DC Council, drawing support from several dozen Democrats who sided against calls from their party's whip to object to the…

The DC Council yesterday unanimously approved a long-awaited new contract for DC Public Schools teachers, but members called for a quicker resolution the next time around.

The House Rules Committee last night advanced efforts to overturn two laws enacted by the DC Council, including the Revised Criminal Code Act that has attracted headlines in recent days. A vote on the House floor is scheduled for Thursday.…

With the GOP-led House headed to a vote later this week to disapprove two bills enacted by local lawmakers, Mayor Muriel Bowser is proposing legislation to amend one of them: the Revised Criminal Code Act, the subject of a mayoral veto…

Mayor Muriel Bowser this afternoon announced new leadership in three agencies, including the Office of Unified Communications that runs the District's 911 call center.

The DC Council is focusing today on the District's fiscal position, with a public hearing underway on the financial report released yesterday that showed almost $835 million in unexpected revenue growth in fiscal year 2022.

A Metro employee is dead after taking what authorities described as "heroic actions" while trying to stop an agitated, armed assailant at the Potomac Avenue station this morning.

A DC Department of Parks and Recreation employee has been charged with second-degree murder while armed in connection with the death of 13-year-old Karon Blake in Brookland earlier this month.

A recent analysis puts DC among the top cities in the country for prospective renters to find a newly built apartment, with a 70% jump in the number of units over the past decade.

The future of downtown DC figured prominently in Mayor Muriel Bowser's inaugural remarks, and a new in-depth portrait of its current state helps explain why.

DC government officials, nonprofit outreach workers and volunteers spanned out across the District last night to conduct the 2023 Point-in-Time survey and count to determine the number of sheltered and unsheltered people experiencing…

In October, Mayor Muriel Bowser visited Center City Public Charter School's Brightwood campus to surprise Jermar Rountree with the news that he had received the 2023 DC Teacher of the Year Award. This afternoon, her office announced that…

Proponents of DC statehood pledged this morning to keep pressing the issue despite what a key senator called the "elephant in the room" — that Republican control of the House means legislation to admit DC as the 51st state is unlikely to…

Local officials are scheduled to join Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware for a press conference on Tuesday morning to announce his reintroduction of the DC statehood bill.

Mayor Muriel Bowser's inaugural remarks are drawing another round of attention, with Politico Magazine writing today about her plea to the White House to reduce the federal government's footprint downtown unless more of its workers return…

The lack of DC statehood means a loss of up to $3.2 billion annually in potential revenue, according to the estimate developed by the DC Fiscal Policy Institute in a new analysis released this morning.

In the wake of yesterday's 12-1 vote by the DC Council to override the mayoral veto of the Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022, Mayor Muriel Bowser says she'll send legislation in the next 30 days to address some of the concerns she has…

The DC Council voted 12-1 this afternoon to override Mayor Muriel Bowser's veto of the Revised Criminal Code Act, with legislators disputing — and criticizing — the mayor's claims that provisions in the bill would make the District less…

Several Republicans on Capitol Hill are seeking to overturn a bill approved last fall by the DC Council to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections — with local officials decrying the GOP effort as an inappropriate intrusion on the…

Amid confusion over the implementation schedule for Initiative 82, the DC Council is slated to consider emergency legislation Tuesday to clarify that the first increase to the tipped minimum wage would take effect March 1.

The new chair of the DC Council's Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety is joining with her predecessor on an effort to override the mayor's veto of the Revised Criminal Code Act.

The new head of the DC Council's Housing Committee is making an early pitch for funding in the upcoming budget cycle, pushing for a $500 million investment over the next five years to repair and maintain public housing units in DC.

Mayor Muriel Bowser today released a five-year "Comeback Plan" that outlines six goals to achieve by 2028, including reaching a DC population of 725,000 and lifting the median household income of Black residents by $25,000.