Muriel Bowser

For over a decade, Muriel Bowser has been the boss: First of her D.C. Council office and its small staff, then of the entire D.C. government, a $15 billion enterprise that employs more than 35,000 people.

Construction has begun on the second and final phase of the $2.5B megaproject along D.C.'s Southwest Waterfront.

The next phase of construction will add 255 apartments, 131 hotel rooms and a 1.5-acre park, developers said

There is no way to escape them. They are everywhere. On streets, highways, on ramps and off ramps.

Anyone who lived through the District’s financial crisis in the 1990s knows it was the kind of calamity this city must avoid repeating. I watched the event unfold from my perch on The Post’s editorial board, where we opined nonstop about…

No really, we're having this debate again.

D.C. Auditor Kathy Patterson delivered a critically important message to the public the other day.

D.C. officials have purchased 66,000 naloxone kits, part of a plan to dramatically increase the supply of a lifesaving opioid-overdose antidote that has been scarce on the streets of a city with one of the nation’s highest rates of drug…

In Mayor Muriel Bowser’s second inaugural address in January, she announced an ambitious goal: create 36,000 new housing units in the District of Columbia by 2025. She is the first government official in our region to commit to an…

D.C. officials hope the opportunity zone program will benefit the city's underserved areas, so the District is launching three new local initiatives to complement the federal program.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser is proposing a small increase in the police department’s half-billion-dollar budget for the coming fiscal year, which includes money to hire additional officers to help confront the rising number of homicides.

The D.C. official in charge of auditing government programs launched an unusual attack on the mayor’s proposed budget Monday, saying it is “not fiscally responsible” and could lead to the kind of spending that prompted a federal takeover…

There’s a promise of relief to at least some commuters who have faced wild rides bouncing off potholes or zigzagging around them the last few months.

When the D.C. Council was set to vote on a bill legalizing sports betting late last year, Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) added a sweetener to ensure its passage: the majority of the tax revenue taken in by the city would be evenly…