Muriel Bowser

As temperatures in D.C. drop to dangerously cold levels for the unhoused, the District plans to unveil another homeless shelter for families on Tuesday—one of several replacements for D.C. General, the decaying megashelter that Mayor Muriel…

VERY LITTLE fanfare accompanied the shuttering of the District’s notorious shelter for homeless families at the old D.C. General hospital. There were brief remarks, and the entrance was chained shut. “We’re moving on,” said Mayor Muriel E.…

WASHINGTON - Muriel Bowser is the first mayor to win a second term in the District of Columbia since 2002 and she is the second woman ever elected mayor in the nation’s capital. It's an honor this fifth-generation Washingtonian doesn't take…

Two days after winning a second term, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Thursday announced a shake-up in the leadership of several prominent city government agencies.

The news release detailing these changes came in after 6:15 p.m. on Thursday.

Call it the Nightmare on the Fifth Floor — the wing of the John A. Wilson Building that Mayor Muriel Bowser’s team occupies.

Eric Shaw has departed as chief of the Office of Planning, WAMU'S Martin Austermuhle reported Thursday morning. OP oversees land use and design review, historic preservation, and neighborhood planning; Mayor Muriel Bowser tapped Shaw to…

This week, the D.C. government took an alarming turn toward censorship—albeit a brief one.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s effort to tip the scales in the District’s sole competitive council race was an unprecedented gamble in a city whose mayors have avoided campaigning against other incumbents — and it failed.

Residents of the nation’s capital get no vote in Congress, but the Democratic takeover of the House may come with a consolation prize: recreational marijuana shops.

Mayor Muriel Bowser convincingly won reelection Tuesday. But rather than basking in her big win, Bowser managed to step on her own parade. It was a misstep that will affect her already shaky relationship with the D.C. Council.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) easily won reelection yesterday but ended up diminished citywide. Facing token opposition, Bowser cruised to victory, capturing 76 percent of the votes for mayor. But she fell behind other winners in citywide…

Mayor Muriel Bower became D.C.’s first reelected mayor since 2002 and the first woman to ever earn a second term as the city executive. And yet she still lost on Election Day.

It’s been a good night for incumbents in the D.C. local races. As widely predicted, incumbent Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser coasted to victory, winning about 76 percent of the vote. Bowser is the first D.C. mayor to win a second term since…

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) became the city’s first chief executive to win reelection in 16 years, but her handpicked candidate failed to unseat one of her rivals in a bitterly contested D.C. Council race.

Tuesday’s general election in the District was a rainy affair with no surprises — except for a surge in voter turnout.

Meet Margaret Norwood. This 104-year-old woman voted in D.C.’s general election on November 6 at UDC Bertie Backus, according to a post from D.C. Mayor Bowser’s Instagram page. As Bowser’s post points out, when Norwood was born, women did…