2020

When a crowd assembled in Oxon Run Park in Southeast Washington for a concert last month, residents accused authorities of ignoring violations of the mayor’s orders restricting mass gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic.

D.C. is ramping up its contact tracing efforts to limit the spread of novel coronavirus infections, which have plateaued in recent days across the Washington region.

In what the transit agency calls the “largest ramp-up” in its 44-year history, Metro is touting a return to pre-pandemic levels, with a restoration of most rail and bus services and reduced wait times.

Amid stories of delayed mail deliveries, concerns over the new Postmaster General’s plan for the U.S. Postal Service, and President Donald Trump’s repeated comments deriding voting by mail, it’d be natural for anyone opting to vote from…

D.C. is warning of small gatherings and traveling as it ramps up contact tracing and begins house visits to track down COVID-19 cases.

The District has hit a two-and-a-half-month high for a key metric officials are using to help determine the city’s reopening plans. According to data reported by the D.C. Department of Health on Monday, community spread reached a peak of…

Vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris is hardly a newcomer to DC. The senator from California has lived and served in the District for almost four years, and she graduated from Howard University in 1986.

The D.C. area’s housing market had an incredibly strong July.

The Aug. 9 Metro article “D.C. hotel rooms may further limit virus’s spread” described the extraordinary job D.C. has done to protect people experiencing homelessness during the coronavirus pandemic. As the doctor in charge of medical care…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has requested an ethics review of former city administrator Rashad Young, who left his role with the District on Friday and has discussed taking a job with Howard University, according to The Washington Post.

The Washington Convention Center is the first big events space in the region to meet an accreditation for infection-prevention strategies and cleanliness in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.

A fire that originated at Bourbon Steak restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel Washington, D.C. swept through the building’s air ducts on Saturday evening.

In the Washington region, the problems besetting the U.S. Postal Service nationwide sometimes look like a missing check that is badly needed to pay the rent, a bottle of medication delivered days after the last prescription ran out or a…

Metro’s resumption of near-normal levels of service this week is occurring in a world that is anything but normal.

The Episcopal bishop of Washington, D.C., who criticized President Donald Trump after he held a Bible aloft at a photo op at a historic church in her diocese, is among the diverse group of faith leaders selected by Democrats to speak at…

In recent months, Black Lives Matter Plaza has evolved into a place with different meanings for many people. For some, it’s a place of protest, togetherness and hope. For others, it’s pain.

Access to resources can be a challenge for many students in the District and the pandemic has presented a whole new set of disadvantages to low-income families. A D.C. group is working to change that.

On the same day former D.C. City Administrator Rashad Young announced he’d be stepping down from his position, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser sent a letter to the D.C. Board of Ethics and Government Accountability seeking an ethics review of…

LoveLiBeirut is an organization that’s dedicated to sending supplies to those impacted by a deadly explosion that happened in the Port of Beirut.