2020

Children’s National Hospital is treating 23 children for an inflammatory syndrome associated with covid-19, a hospital spokesperson said Wednesday night.

Back in March, Sara Polon, owner of a D.C.-based soup and salad business, stopped to check on her tent at the Dupont Circle Farmers Market — and it looked like a “ghost town.”

Less than a month after it put much of its staff on furlough, the National Building Museum is permanently cutting two-thirds of its staff, citing loss of revenue due to the pandemic.

“HEAD-TURNING.” That is what D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) called the churn in leadership at the U.S. attorney’s office in the District. Other words — like stomach-turning — also come to mind to describe the degradation of this…

Happy Wednesday. DC's budget process kicked off yesterday with DC Council members signaling where they're looking to tinker with the mayor's proposal for government spending at a time of falling revenues and economic crisis due to…

When he got the call from the hospital, saying he should come, Kevin Lynch knew he would be heading to tell his mother goodbye.

Union Station neighbors, D.C. leaders and one prominent developer are frustrated because they believe federal officials aren’t listening to their concerns about the massive station expansion project, especially as a new dispute has…

Across the region, coronavirus case numbers appear to be growing more slowly, with jurisdictions achieving key reopening metrics as the weeks go by. The type of surge that hit New York City, an epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S., hasn’t…

Three veteran D.C. Superior Court judges submitted their names as candidates to become chief judge, the court’s top judicial position and one that shapes the direction of the busiest courthouse in the Washington area.

The traditional Pride Month celebrations set for June in D.C. may be off because of the public health emergency, but organizers have unveiled a schedule of revamped events.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to offer tax breaks to incentivize construction of affordable housing in some of the District’s wealthiest neighborhoods as part of her broader effort to more evenly distribute modestly priced homes…

Faced with the first budget in almost a decade stricken by revenue shortfalls instead of surpluses, D.C. lawmakers on Tuesday alternated between praising Mayor Muriel Bowser for her proposed 2021 spending plan and gently hinting that…

The District is no longer top dog when it comes to city park systems in the U.S., at least according to the San Francisco-based Trust for Public Land, a conservation nonprofit that tracks park quality. The organization ranked D.C. second…

The only U.S. city with better parks than D.C. is Minneapolis, Minnesota, according to new rankings by an organization that advocates for parks and land protection.

A small piece of personal history goes poof.

A D.C. bookstore that has been an anchor in Dupont Circle is planning to leave the neighborhood, its owner announced Tuesday.

The District fell from the top spot and Arlington maintained its No. 4 ranking in an annual national survey of large U.S. cities with the best parks as activists urged officials to preserve public space amid the coronavirus pandemic.