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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has appointed a new acting director for the Office of Unified Communications (OUC). The appointee, Heather McGaffin, was most recently deputy director for the agency and first joined OUC in 2020 as chief of special…

Now, there are two of them! Another e-bike rebate bill has popped up in the D.C. Council’s agenda.

McPherson Square, one block northeast of Lafayette Square in downtown Washington, is symbolic of the city’s capacity for denial. The unsheltered encampment at that site, now scheduled for closure on Feb. 15, is a response to homelessness…

When the 65th annual Grammy Awards air on Sunday, there will be a new category announced under the spoken word umbrella: Best Spoken Word Poetry Album. And followers of D.C.’s literary scene may recognize one name among the five nominees…

An internal investigation determined that Robert Glover violated MPD’s policy on social media but found no evidence that the site contained child pornography.

D.C. officials told lawmakers this week that the city saw an $834 million budget surplus at the end of the 2022 fiscal year, but also warned of possible economic and fiscal uncertainties in the coming years — much of them potentially…

A nonprofit dedicated to after-school education in underserved neighborhoods opens a new headquarters Friday near Fort Stanton Park.

A majority of District Councilmembers, led by judiciary and public safety committee chairperson Brooke Pinto (D-Ward 2), introduced legislation aiming to ensure residents of D.C. jail and other correctional facilities have access to…

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.

Picture it: Apartment buildings rising roughly as high as Paris’ Arc de Triomphe, neighboring K Street’s elite law and lobbying firms. Window shopping in Farragut Square and watching bakers pull warm bagels out of an oven. A cluster of…

After members of a specialized policing unit were charged in the death of a man in Memphis, Tennessee, there is a call for a specialized policing unit in D.C. to be disbanded.

The city is issuing $7 million in grants to tutor 3,600 students through September 2024.

All the usual suspects lined up to fund the inaugural festivities, though contribution limits tamped down the size of her haul.

Lagging population and employment growth, diminished tourism and declining commercial property values are all undercutting D.C.'s economic recovery and leaving a "weakened" outlook, District officials said Thursday, even as they repeated…

Republican leaders say the House of Representatives will vote next week to overturn a pair of bills passed by the D.C. Council, one that would allow non-citizens vote in local elections starting in 2024 and another that overhauls the…

Few residents of the downtown park have been approved for city housing assistance ahead of a new Feb. 15 deadline

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.