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Mayor Muriel Bower became D.C.’s first reelected mayor since 2002 and the first woman to ever earn a second term as the city executive. And yet she still lost on Election Day.

D.C. voters had a philosophical question about public education to answer at the polls Tuesday: Did they want candidates who would more likely be fervent advocates of the traditional public school system, or those who would bolster public…

It’s been a good night for incumbents in the D.C. local races. As widely predicted, incumbent Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser coasted to victory, winning about 76 percent of the vote. Bowser is the first D.C. mayor to win a second term since…

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) became the city’s first chief executive to win reelection in 16 years, but her handpicked candidate failed to unseat one of her rivals in a bitterly contested D.C. Council race.

Tuesday’s general election in the District was a rainy affair with no surprises — except for a surge in voter turnout.

The District’s top education officials surprised a teacher in her elementary school this week, anointing her the city’s 2019 Teacher of the Year while students filled the cafeteria.

Meet Margaret Norwood. This 104-year-old woman voted in D.C.’s general election on November 6 at UDC Bertie Backus, according to a post from D.C. Mayor Bowser’s Instagram page. As Bowser’s post points out, when Norwood was born, women did…

WASHINGTON — For Allie Bobak, her job Tuesday at a polling site at Barnard Elementary School in Northwest was to only serve as a nonpartisan observer with the organization Observe DC. But that job quickly took on the added role of saving a…

Voters in two D.C. precincts Tuesday morning had more than rainy weather to contend with as they tried to cast their ballots. At the polling place in Eastern Market, where people in both precinct 88 and 89 are assigned to vote, lines…

What we lose when gruesome crimes stop dominating headlines.

In the second part of WTOP’s three-part series “The making of Marion Barry,” the future mayor arrives in a very different D.C. to the one we know today.

It's a rainy election day, but City Paper reporters are spending it talking to voters and candidates at polling places, and in the evening, at watch parties across the District. We'll add dispatches to this post throughout the day, so keep…

On a hill in the middle of Washington sit 12 acres of landscaped lawns, shaded walkways dotted with statuary, and a majestic cascading fountain. For decades, this public park has been the site of a weekly drum circle; in recent years, it…

WASHINGTON - A D.C. teacher facing deportation will return to the classroom after her case was reopened by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), her school announced Monday.

WASHINGTON — The District’s yearlong pilot program with dockless bike and scooter companies will become a permanent option for D.C. commuters in 2019, with new rules now set in stone for the companies that want to provide their vehicles in…

A four-year-old lawsuit challenging the District’s treatment of charter schools continued in court Monday, with a coalition of charters arguing to federal judges that the city’s unequal funding of schools is breaking the law.

Election Day is just about here and we have the rundown on everything you need to know, including where to vote, where to watch results, and what’s going on in the local races.