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Michael Bekesha ran his campaign against Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen as an “urban Republican”—a fiscal conservative who shares his city’s core values, and eschews any association with President Donald Trump.

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.

In what turned out to be an expensive D.C. State Board of Education race, educators and those seeking to shake up the system won by double-digit percentages.

Past 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday night, a strange moment arrived for obsessive D.C. election-watchers: The D.C. Board of Elections results page suddenly stopped its live results tally, with only 142 of 143 precincts reporting. One…

Yesterday’s election saw some local victories for the Democratic Socialists of America. DSA-endorsed candidates in New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Julia Salazar, made history as two of the youngest people to be elected to Congress…

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…

WASHINGTON — When Marion Barry began to run for mayor of D.C. in 1978, he could point to his record on the D.C. Board of Education and the D.C. Council, where he had been chairman of the Finance and Revenue Committee and had proposed more…

The owners of a development site by the Benning Road Metro station in Northeast D.C. plan to seek buyers for their property, formerly home to a KFC restaurant.

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.

D.C. voters had a philosophical question about public education to answer at the polls Tuesday: Did they want candidates who would more likely be fervent advocates of the traditional public school system, or those who would bolster public…

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.

The District’s top education officials surprised a teacher in her elementary school this week, anointing her the city’s 2019 Teacher of the Year while students filled the cafeteria.

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…

WASHINGTON — For Allie Bobak, her job Tuesday at a polling site at Barnard Elementary School in Northwest was to only serve as a nonpartisan observer with the organization Observe DC. But that job quickly took on the added role of saving a…

Voters in two D.C. precincts Tuesday morning had more than rainy weather to contend with as they tried to cast their ballots. At the polling place in Eastern Market, where people in both precinct 88 and 89 are assigned to vote, lines…

What we lose when gruesome crimes stop dominating headlines.

In the second part of WTOP’s three-part series “The making of Marion Barry,” the future mayor arrives in a very different D.C. to the one we know today.

It's a rainy election day, but City Paper reporters are spending it talking to voters and candidates at polling places, and in the evening, at watch parties across the District. We'll add dispatches to this post throughout the day, so keep…