Bar none, the District of Columbia’s greatest failing over the past few decades has come from a stunning lack of political leadership. D.C. Councilman Marion Barry’s antics, from drug abuse to alleged...

Occupy D.C. protesters remained in McPherson Square Monday night, despite a National Park Service announcement that they would have to leave the park by noon. The drive to clear the camp began...

Fresh evidence has renewed an ongoing federal investigation into alleged misconduct by the election campaign of D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray last fall. On Oct. 15, The Washington Post reported that authorities...

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray spoke out against Georgetown's 2010 Campus Plan at the Advisory Neighborhood Commission District 2E's monthly meeting Monday night. "I've met with all parties involved,...

Speaking before the House of Representatives Oversight Subcommittee on Thursday, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray addressed the controversial restrictions for the District in Congress's fiscal year 2012 budget. Gray...

Congressional limitations on D.C. autonomy in the past week have sparked protest from Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and the arrest of Mayor Vincent Gray. Norton, D.C.'s nonvoting delegate in Congress,...

Traveling around the District may soon become more expensive, after Mayor Vincent Gray proposed the repeal of the $19 price ceiling on D.C. taxi rides last month. Taxicab Commission Chairman Leon Swain...

The D.C. Council has proposed two laws this week, the "Bullying and Prevention Act of 2010 and the Harassment and Intimidation Protection Act of 2010, which aim to provide a new, comprehensive policy for...

Mayor Adrian Fenty and his successor Vincent Gray have set out to reverse the $18 million deficit the D.C. government has accumulated. Both have stressed the need to avoid tax hikes. The revised budget...

D.C.'s Mayor-elect Vincent Gray began this week to implement his comprehensive plan, announced during the mayoral campaign, to lower unemployment by increasing the amount of education and opportunities...

Just days after handily winning the D.C. mayoral election, Vincent Gray named a group of advisers to help him through the transition period before his inauguration. And at least four members of the team...

Most signs point to Democratic candidates winning the D.C. area's congressional races and mayoral election, with three of the four congressional districts surrounding D.C. predicted to vote for Democratic...