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Ward 1 Council member Brianne Nadeau yesterday introduced emergency legislation to prevent price gouging on infant formula.

Robert Barton was in year 27 of a 30-to-life-sentence when he found out his cellmate was being released.

Public safety in the D.C. and an increase in crime, as well as the state of the city’s education system, were the major topics in a debate Monday night between the four Democratic candidates for mayor.

Prices for baby formula are rising because of the nationwide shortage, and a bill has been introduced in the D.C. Council aimed at preventing price gouging.

Ballots are already in voters’ mailboxes and tensions are high between the four Democratic candidates running for mayor of Washington. Muriel E. Bowser, seeking a third term, has sparred with D.C. Council members Robert C. White Jr. and…

In a long-awaited announcement, Metro on Thursday said it had submitted a plan to the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission (WMSC) outlining the steps it would take in order to return some 7000-series railcars to passenger service. The…

Let’s call this a shaming renaming.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Monday announced her nominee for the city’s new chief financial officer: Glen Lee, who has spent nearly 30 years in various roles for the city of Seattle, most recently as its finance director.

A U.S. district judge in New York has put the brakes on Catholic University’s much-anticipated auction of a “Dorothy” dress worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia on Monday sued Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, seeking to hold him personally liable for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a privacy breach of millions of Facebook users’ personal data that became a…

Before the speeches and the singing, the poetry and the picture-taking, Robert D. Moton and his wife, Jennifer Hardy-Moton, stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial and let me pester them with questions. Suddenly, they realized something:…

Outgoing D.C. Council member Mary M. Cheh announced her pick Monday in the crowded race to replace her: Tricia Duncan, a community volunteer who is one of nine candidates vying to fill the Ward 3 council seat that Cheh has held for 15…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser appointed the District’s next chief financial officer Monday: Glen Lee, the finance director for Seattle.

As of today, Metro trains on the Green and Yellow lines are back to running at 15-minute intervals. Service had been cut back earlier this month when 72 train operators were taken off the job because their certifications had lapsed more…

Voters in the June 21 Democratic primary will choose a nominee for mayor and city council wards 1, 3, 5, 6, chairman and at-large in this deep-blue city, where the primary often determines the winner in November. Here is where the…

Mary Cheh endorses Ward 3 candidate Tricia Duncan as successor

Tricia Duncan just picked up perhaps the biggest prize possible in the crowded Ward 3 race: The backing of outgoing Councilmember Mary Cheh.