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D.C.’s mayor has unveiled her proposed budget for the next fiscal year.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) proposed a $19.7 billion budget Wednesday that included funds to significantly increase the number of automated traffic cameras in the city and rejuvenate the struggling downtown corridor amid uncertainty…

The D.C. Council is considering a bill that would rename Cedar Street, Southeast after Davon McNeal, the 11-year-old who was killed in the crossfire of bullets after an anti-violence Fourth of July celebration in 2020.

In 2016, the D.C. Council passed the NEAR Act, or the Neighborhood Engagement Achieves Results Act, setting forth a slew of initiatives to reduce community violence and incarceration using a public health approach.

The dispute is drawing in Chief Financial Officer Glen Lee as Mendelson pushes back against the CFO’s expansive authority.

Roughly five months after a report from the federal department of Housing and Urban Development dinged the DC Housing Authority for its rent payment practices, the D.C. Council is wading into the fray with a proposal to reform them.

The number of traffic cameras in D.C. could more than triple over the next few years while spending on government programs and hiring will be scaled back under a proposed 2024 budget Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled on Wednesday.

The D.C. Public Library system is preparing for a multi-year renovation of the Southeast Library that will send people to another quadrant for many services.

Mayor Muriel Bowser presented her $19.7 billion budget proposal for fiscal year 2024 to the DC Council this morning, stressing that having to fill a $1.7 billion hole after February's revenue estimates showed declines left little to no…

The massive Bridge District development near Anacostia is readying for its second phase before it's even gone vertical with the first.

Kelsye Adams walked through the Cannon House Office Building hallways and noticed the plaques for representatives from across the country. Texas. New Hampshire. Wisconsin.

The administration of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Tuesday revised a timeline related to the start of an investigation into the mayor’s former chief of staff, John Falcicchio, stating that Bowser learned about a complaint against him and…

President Joe Biden’s signature on a bill nullifying an overhaul of the District of Columbia criminal code ended a public fight between Congress and local lawmakers. But the battles are only just beginning.

The District is kicking off the once-a-decade process of redrawing the boundaries that determine what public schools kids will attend, an often fraught undertaking that in many other jurisdictions has prompted difficult debates about…

Metro says it will spend up to $40 million to redesign its new faregates, making it harder to jump over them and evade paying the fare.

We’ve finally got a first peek at detailed new plans for the long-awaited redevelopment of the St. Elizabeths campus.

D.C.’s Ward 8 is blessed with some 500 acres of forested parkland, but there are not many ways to access those parks, with just a few miles of trails. Take, for example, Shepherd Parkway — a long strip of forest along the bluffs of…

John Falcicchio, a longtime deputy of Mayor Bowser who abruptly resigned his post last Friday, is facing sexual harassment allegations.