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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday unveiled a package of changes she’d like to see made to the recently passed overhaul of the city’s century-old criminal code, just as House Republicans are pushing to repeal the overhaul in its entirety. …

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants criminals to be held accountable, and she says the changes she’s proposing to the District’s new criminal code to increase penalties for certain crimes will send that message.

Unhoused people and social service providers are searching for options after the National Park Service pushed up by several months a planned clearing of one of D.C.’s largest homeless encampments.

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…

The organizers behind famed music festival Coachella are taking legal action against D.C.’s own Moechella event in a trademark infringement case.

A bill reintroduced to Congress this week seeks to give D.C.’s mayor control over the District’s own National Guard force.

As a first-time mayoral candidate in 2014, Muriel E. Bowser minced no words when she opposed efforts to weaken a century-old federal law restricting how high buildings can rise in Washington.

The local music festival came out of a 2019 protest against gentrification

The District would join other cities and states seeking to swap gas stoves and other fossil fuel-dependent devices for electric appliances, under a bill introduced Friday that is sure to add to a culture war already simmering in America’s…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser reaffirmed her support for the Safe Passage Safe Blocks program following a shooting earlier in the week that left a man, who worked for the program, dead.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Friday said Congress should stay out of the city’s business as the House prepares to take up a pair of disapproval resolutions next week targeting D.C. legislation, including the city’s sweeping overhaul of…

Heather McGaffin, the No. 2 official in the Office of Unified Communications, will serve as “acting director” pending confirmation by the D.C. Council

The musical festival Coachella is suing the two local artists behind the creation of Moechella — D.C.’s go-go music protest on 14th and U Streets — over alleged trademark infringement.

Days after telling The Washington Post she “very strongly” supported a Republican bill that would compel federal workers to return to the office in person, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) appeared to recant her comments, saying she…

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…