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The DC Council gave initial approval this afternoon to legislation long sought by a coalition of street vendors to make it easier for them to operate in the District.

The D.C. Council bowed to bipartisan pressure on Monday by attempting to withdraw sweeping changes to the city's criminal code that the Senate appears on track to block later this week.

The embattled agency is recovering from internal and external audits that identified failures throughout the agency and millions in misspent funds.

The D.C. Council is withdrawing a sweeping rewrite of the capital city’s criminal code from consideration, just before a U.S. Senate vote that seemed set to overturn the measure. But the move will not prevent the Senate vote or spare…

For decades, D.C.'s Ward 8 leaders say, the outside community has often laid out an economic and development agenda for them. Now they want that to change.

The Senate this week plans to vote on whether to block D.C.’s overhaul of its century-old criminal code from becoming law, even as city leaders tried to pull the legislation before federal lawmakers could weigh in. If the Senate resolution…

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson said Monday he is withdrawing a bill overhauling the city’s criminal code ahead of a planned vote in the U.S. Senate this week to block it from taking effect. But his gambit was dismissed only hours…

Democratic presidents in the past have done troubling and at times truly terrible things to appease centrist White voters and win elections. President Biden shouldn’t continue that legacy — and I am becoming increasingly worried that he…

President Biden's shock announcement on Thursday that he won't veto a GOP-led resolution blocking changes to D.C.'s criminal code has left House Democrats in a state of shock, anger and distrust.

D.C. Health announced Friday it would be closing all COVID-19 centers throughout the city by the end of March.

At the center of the issue — and six federal lawsuits — are children who have already been failed by adults in their lives

Cities across the nation face a dilemma: Downtown office buildings are empty as workers prefer to stay home. Nearly all local leaders agree part of the solution is an office-to-apartment conversion boom. Cities have started rolling out tax…

D.C. has received a $9.7 million grant from the Department of Education that city leaders say will be used to help recruit and retain mental health professionals to work in the city’s schools.

President’s opposition is part of a tough-on-crime sentiment that is increasingly shaping the political landscape

Only three years ago, D.C. statehood advocates celebrated when the House voted to grant the city congressional representation, a historic show of support that was repeated the following year when lawmakers approved the measure.

Ernest Chrappah, the acting director of the city’s new Department of Buildings, wrote to the agency’s staff Friday that he plans to leave his post at an unspecified future date, according to a copy of the letter reviewed by The Washington…

D.C. public health officials plan to close the city’s eight covid centers on March 31 because of a drop in new infections and the widespread availability of vaccines and home testing kits, according to a D.C. Health statement released…