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Over a year ago, the DC Council held a marathon hearing in which more than 250 people signed up to testify about whether and how the Comprehensive (Comp) Plan, a high-level guideline for how and where the city should develop, should be…

Even if today’s objectively beautiful weather doesn’t stick around by the end of the week, D.C.’s cyclists will Spandex up and hit the bike lanes on Friday for another Bike to Work Day. Commuter Connections and the Washington Area…

Ward 4 Councilmember Brandon Todd has a checkered history when it comes to election laws.

Advocates say the District's federally controlled parole system needs reform.

Happy Wednesday. The legal battle over a former Sanford Capital property in Congress Heights continued in court today.

A new partnership is designed to reduce the use and costs of the District government’s vehicle fleet

One day around 1890, the seed of a white mulberry tree, perhaps borne from the droppings of a passing bird, fell on the grounds of the newly dedicated Washington Monument.

Olga Cano, 38, wakes up before 6 a.m. to start her daily shuffle. She gets ready for work, then wakes up her two daughters. Her older daughter is 3, the younger one is 9 months.

There’s a praying mantis the size of an adult human in the Pollinator Garden next to the Natural History Museum.

Black residents in the District are disproportionately arrested for minor violations, despite making up less than half of the population, according to a study by two watchdog groups.

The D.C. Council voted to start defunding Washington’s only hospital east of the Anacostia River — a hospital the city owns and pumps millions of dollars in subsidies into annually.

Alice M. Rivlin, who died Tuesday at 88, was not some callous budget maven or austere fiscal hawk who cared only about balanced budgets and financial austerity. She wanted government to work and investment to flow back into the District in…

The Council voted Tuesday to nix funding for Mayor Bowser’s ride-free program, but it added money for a congestion-pricing study, scooter parking and a new NoMa Metro station tunnel.

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 14, 2019 CONTACT: Mekdy Alemayehu (DCOP) Bowser Administration Asks Residents to Provide Feedback on DC Values Survey Asks Residents About Accessibility, Diversity, Equity,…

The D.C. Council narrowly rejected Tuesday a proposal from Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) to build a new campus for an elite high school on vacant property in the booming Shaw neighborhood.

D.C. lawmakers voted Tuesday to close the District’s only public hospital within four years, ending six decades of turbulent history at the only full-service hospital in the low-income and predominantly African American neighborhoods east…

The D.C. Council threw its support behind speeding up the delivery of a new East End hospital by a year as the beleaguered United Medical Center struggles to stay afloat.

FOUNDING DIRECTOR of the Congressional Budget Office. Vice chair of the Federal Reserve. Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s…

Despite the D.C. Council's desire to fast-track sports betting in D.C., a citywide mobile sports gambling app won't be available until January 2020 at the earliest. A recent report from the Council's finance and revenue committee expresses…

Former Mayor Tony Williams recalls her local touch