DC Council

Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh introduced a bill during Tuesday's Committee of the Whole meeting to reform how D.C. Superior Court handles and maintains records of eviction proceedings, an effort to ameliorate the sometimes "lasting,…

The D.C. Council unexpectedly delayed a final vote Tuesday on regulating Airbnb and other short-term rental companies because of a last-minute dispute over how to pay for the legislation. Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) reluctantly agreed to…

After hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign spending, tens of thousands of voters heading to the polls and hundreds of angry calls and emails to lawmakers, a contentious fight over restaurant worker pay in the nation’s capital ended…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

The top three elected officials in the District would get $20,000 raises next year — their first pay increase in more than a decade — under new legislation set to be introduced. D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) would see her salary go up to…

The mayor, chairman of the D.C. Council, and city's attorney general could be getting a raise in the near future. A bill was introduced on Friday to give Mayor Muriel Bowser a 10 percent pay bump, increasing her salary to $220,000 a year.…

Race is a subject many in D.C. politics prefer not to discuss. But it is at the forefront of the city’s most competitive election this fall. That contest pits incumbent D.C. Council member Elissa Silverman (I-At Large) — white, Jewish and a…

Emergency anti-K2 legislation recently passed by the D.C. Council and signed by Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) expands the definition of synthetic cannabinoids and reinstates expired enforcement policy, part of an effort to curb an ongoing…

In the battle over clean energy and global warming, the District of Columbia rates barely a speck on the nation’s landscape, a tiny 68 square miles out of the nation’s nearly 3.8 million square miles.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s recent embrace of Dionne Reeder, who is trying to unseat D.C. Council Member Elissa Silverman next month, has filled Reeder’s campaign coffers - with much of the cash coming from Bowser’s donor network.

Patients, nurses and community leaders testified during a standing room-only D.C. Council committee hearing on Wednesday about the planned closure of acute-care services at Providence Hospital in northeast Washington.