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WASHINGTON — The D.C. Council has voted to repeal Initiative 77. The initiative, approved by voters in June, would have raised minimum base pay for tipped workers to standard minimum wage over a period of time. After heated discussions, the…

What initially seemed like a relatively straight forward final vote on a bill to regulate and restrict home-sharing services like Airbnb in D.C. was derailed on Tuesday afternoon after a number of legislators said there remained unanswered…

The District is now one step closer to banning gasoline-powered leaf blowers. At a Committee of the Whole meeting on Tuesday, the D.C. Council unanimously voted to bring the Leaf Blower Regulation Amendment Act of 2018 to its legislative…

WASHINGTON — A rabid raccoon ran rampant in Northwest D.C. on Sunday morning, attacking three people and two pets who now require preventive treatment for the dangerous viral infection. D.C. Health officials said the raccoon had been…

More than a year after ditching plans to bring back automatic train operation — the self-driving train technology that launched when Metro did in 1976 — the agency’s leaders have changed course, citing the need to provide a better customer…

WASHINGTON — City Winery, which opened a 42,000-square-foot entertainment venue with a working winery and restaurant in Ivy City earlier this year, has partnered with nonprofit DC Vote to launch “The 51,” a line of wines to support D.C.…

On the final day that the National Park Service was accepting input on more than a dozen policy changes to alter how and where protests are conducted in the District, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) issued a warning to the federal…

The National Park Service (NPS) is considering changing how it processes applications for marches in Washington. Not marches on Washington, mind you, such as the peaceful 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom that included Martin…

D.C., please stop trying to act like the rest of the nation. It’s not flattering. What should have been a straightforward D.C. Council race is now being infused with the same type of bitterness that has taken over national politics. It now…

Rewriting the law to end the independence of the D.C. Office of Open Government this summer, the D.C. Council at least mandated that the new overseers, the Board of Ethics and Government Accountability (BEGA), include one member equipped…

With the D.C. Council set to vote on a bill on Tuesday that would regulate and restrict home-sharing services for the first time, Airbnb officials say they are willing to take the issue directly to D.C. voters with a ballot measure in 2020.…

Money continues to trickle to the candidates running to be on the D.C. State Board of Education — positions that wield little power in the District but have attracted significant amounts of money. More than $225,000 has flowed into four…

On Tuesday, the DC Council is scheduled to have a final vote on a new home-share regulation bill for the city.  As currently written, the bill allows owner-occupied properties to be used as short-term rentals without time limits, while…

It is up to 17 degrees hotter than the coolest areas inside the District.

The biggest racial preferences in this country have nothing to do with college admissions or job offers. They have to do with political power. And they benefit white Americans, at the expense of black, Asian and Hispanic Americans.