Legislation

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…

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 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.…

According to a U.N. report released Monday, the future of the planet looks dire. Tens of millions of people flooded by sea level rise, hundreds of millions suffering through severe droughts. Mass die-offs of 70 to 90 percent of coral reefs.…

The D.C. block where NASA’s headquarters is located is poised to be symbolically named “Hidden Figures Way” in the coming months thanks to a unanimously supported effort by District elected officials “to honor the historic women scientists…

The District would adopt one of the nation’s most aggressive plans to cut carbon emissions, aiming to use entirely renewable sources of energy for the city’s power grid just 14 years from now, under new legislation proposed by five D.C.…

Tenants could be spared from larger-than-expected rent increases under new legislation the DC Council is considering. Councilmember Anita Bonds (D-At Large) introduced a pair of bills that would update how rent increases are determined…

It costs only a few dollars to ride Metro’s trains or buses, but it can cost up to $300 and 10 days of jail time to do so without paying the proper fare. Those penalties may soon change. Last week, District legislators advanced a bill…

WASHINGTON — One of the sponsors of a bill allowing for sports betting in D.C. said that he has the numbers to advance it to the next step. D.C. Councilman Jack Evans, a Democrat who represents Ward 2, said that he is “very confident” he…

It’s been nearly a year since officers from the U.S. Marshals Service caused heated debate by dumping sensitive financial documents on a Capitol Hill sidewalk while carrying out an eviction order against a tax services company. Local…