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The DC Council's budget oversight season is now underway, with the mayor formally presenting her budget proposal for fiscal year 2024 at this afternoon's public briefing after legislators made opening statements.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s vision for the city includes police officers back in schools, a new jail and a school for paramedics. It’s all part of a massive, $19.7 billion proposed budget Bowser presented to the D.C. Council on Wednesday.

D.C.’s embattled 911 call center needs to be more transparent with the public, particularly in incidents during which mistakes were made, to help regain public trust, auditor Kathy Patterson said Thursday.

The federal government "would be delighted" to consider ways to downsize its downtown D.C. footprint and give up prominent sites like the J. Edgar Hoover Building for potential redevelopment — but not without a thorough review, and not if…

Advocates and lawmakers are alarmed by Bowser’s proposals to walk back spending on development and rental assistance.

The D.C. Office of Unified Communications reported a problem with 911 calls on Wednesday evening. The issue affected the agency’s ability to accurately pinpoint the quadrant of emergency calls from landline phones.

Qualifying District residents will be notified by mail when their burden has been eliminated

Mayor Bowser wants to cut DC Circulator service in half to save money.

With the DC Council's 70-day budget review having kicked off yesterday, signs point to a particularly contentious spring in the Wilson Building.

Mayor Muriel Bowser's proposed fiscal year 2024 spending plan includes a big expansion of the District's tax abatement meant to spur new housing downtown, in addition to millions in capital investment designed to bring major new…

City council chairman and director of the commission say they disagree with the mayor’s proposal, arguing that the panel’s expertise remains important

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser proposed a budget that doesn’t include the program, but a sponsor of the plan said the city will fund it without the mayor’s support

D.C.’s mayor has unveiled her proposed budget for the next fiscal year.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) proposed a $19.7 billion budget Wednesday that included funds to significantly increase the number of automated traffic cameras in the city and rejuvenate the struggling downtown corridor amid uncertainty…

The D.C. Council is considering a bill that would rename Cedar Street, Southeast after Davon McNeal, the 11-year-old who was killed in the crossfire of bullets after an anti-violence Fourth of July celebration in 2020.

In 2016, the D.C. Council passed the NEAR Act, or the Neighborhood Engagement Achieves Results Act, setting forth a slew of initiatives to reduce community violence and incarceration using a public health approach.

The dispute is drawing in Chief Financial Officer Glen Lee as Mendelson pushes back against the CFO’s expansive authority.

Roughly five months after a report from the federal department of Housing and Urban Development dinged the DC Housing Authority for its rent payment practices, the D.C. Council is wading into the fray with a proposal to reform them.

The number of traffic cameras in D.C. could more than triple over the next few years while spending on government programs and hiring will be scaled back under a proposed 2024 budget Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled on Wednesday.

The D.C. Public Library system is preparing for a multi-year renovation of the Southeast Library that will send people to another quadrant for many services.