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The budget process is getting underway in earnest with this afternoon's DC Council briefing, which kicked off with opening statements from legislators citing issues they'll focus on in the upcoming slate of oversight hearings.

For about two weeks, a convoy of trucks, RVs and other vehicles, has slowly roved around the Beltway and on the interstate freeways in the District during the late morning and afternoon hours most days, and that’s led to a variety of…

How do you lower crime in DC? Mayor Muriel Bowser thinks the answer is, in part, stopping criminals before they start, and giving young people more positive outlets for their time and energy.

A year ago, DC's Office of Planning launched a process to create a new Small Area Plan (SAP) for Chevy Chase. Now, the draft SAP has been released, and with it, some specific concepts and guidelines for the design and streetscape…

Howard University faculty member Anthony Jackson lives in Woodbridge, Virginia — 25 miles away from where he works. He earns just above the average salary for non-tenured, full-time lecturers, which his union says is roughly $50,000 per…

Things in D.C. that last six months: the Capitol fencing, the 7000-series train shut-down (at least), and now, more excitedly, the celebration of the Smithsonian National Zoo’s giant panda program.

D.C. could have the funding to tear down part of its troubled jail complex and replace it with a new facility over the next six years, according to an overview of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed budget released on Wednesday. The proposed…

The District’s Main Streets program looks riddled with questionable accounting practices, all enabled by inaction from the agency overseeing it.

Greg O'Dell, the head of D.C.'s conventions and sports authority, is moving on after nearly 13 years overseeing major initiatives, including construction of the Entertainment and Sports Arena in Congress Heights.

It’s budget season again and DC Mayor Muriel Bowser released portions of the FY2023 budget proposal Wednesday. The proposal is a financial road map highlighting where the Bowser administration will invest dollars throughout the District.

Experts say that peak bloom for the cherry blossoms is still a week off — but DC's budget season is already underway, even with the release of some specifics delayed.

Hundreds of faculty members at Howard University in D.C. are threatening to go on strike next week.

The literacy proficiency gap between young White students and students of color in the District continued to widen during the second year of the pandemic, according to data released recently by D.C. Public Schools.

As many as 80 percent of calls in D.C. in 2020 were for medical emergencies.

An error unearthed by the CFO’s office at the last minute forced a bit of a budget shuffle.

It will now cost you more to take a taxi in D.C.

Wednesday was largely the first day that some of its members ventured into downtown and the Mall