Seven candidates were running in a special election for Ward 8 of the Washington, D.C. City Council on July 15 but only four ...

According to the DC Board of Elections, all active, registered voters in Ward 8 have been sent a mail-in ballot. If you plan on mailing in your ballot, it must be postmarked no later than Tuesday, ...

Early voting began in the special election for the Ward 8 D.C. Council seat, which became vacant in February after the ...

The District’s Ward 8 special election begins Friday, with Trayon White eyeing the seat again, following his expulsion.

Ward 8: Accept Navy Yard from Ward 6. The proposed map is below. The final map proposed by the D.C. Council’s Subcommittee on Redistricting. Click to enlarge.

The latest proposal, which the council voted for 11-1, moves Navy Yard to Ward 8 and neighborhoods bordering the Anacostia to Ward 7.

Ward 8’s special election unfolds amid housing instability, stagnant funding, and high stakes for D.C.’s most vulnerable ...

Interactive Map: DC Is Planting Thousands of Trees, But Inequity Remains "There's clearly an imbalance," one Ward 8 advocate said ...

The Anacostia neighborhood of Southeast DC resides in Ward 8. According to Census data, Ward 8 has the highest percentage of children in poverty at 48.5% and people unemployed at 21.9% in the city ...

Wards 7 and 8 — commonly referred to collectively as “east of the river” — are heavily symbolic in local politics. The community east of the Anacostia remains almost entirely Black, even ...

DC's council advances proposal to align parts of Capitol Hill and the Navy Yard with Wards East of Anacostia River ...

D.C. opened 10 new Families First Success Centers on Wednesday in Wards 7 and 8 in some of the city’s lowest income areas to help them weather the COVID-19 pandemic and meet their goals. The ...