2020

Hugo and Rebecca Medrano aren’t strangers to hard times. Hugo, an actor turned producing artistic director of a D.C. theater for Spanish productions, started his career in exile from his native Argentina, after all.

“Every cleaner I see is selling them,” says Moon Whang, the owner of Georgetown Valet, a local chain of cleaning and alteration shops.

Like hundreds of small-business owners in the nation’s capital, Pixie Windsor knows her vintage furniture and home accessories shop is in peril.

As the sky over Meridian Hill Park darkened and a brisk wind thrust its way in, bride Jameila Roache and her groom, Andre Rambana, watched in fear as the laptop used to link them to the D.C. judge officiating their marriage began to slide…

Here's what to do if you suspect a violation.

The $2.7 billion budget the Metro board passed Thursday doesn't look much like the one the authority was looking at in April. And it may need to be revisited again in another month, General Manager Paul Wiedefeld told board members at…

Metro will start requiring masks or a cloth face covering on buses and trains starting Monday, but enforcement won’t be heavy-handed, officials say.

Beginning Monday, all Metro and Metrobus riders will be required to wear masks or face coverings to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, the agency’s chief safety officer said Thursday.

The District could soon allow restaurants to expand outdoor cafes further into sidewalks or even onto public streets in a bid to boost business whenever diners are allowed to return for sit-down meals.

You shouldn’t have to risk your life to buy food to feed your family. And you shouldn’t have to risk your life when you do your job providing sustenance to your fellow Americans.

Happy Thursday. As DC extends its stay-at-home order through June 8, the city is not seeing a steady increase in COVID-19 testing volume, which is still far off from the 3,700 tests a day Health Department director Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt…

When stay-at-home orders were announced, the first thing Melanie Choukas-Bradley did was order a hammock and some vegetable seeds. Even if her favorite outdoor spots were closed, she would have a place to lie down and contemplate the…

For college students, late spring is a time to bask in the joys of another school year wrapped up: relief as finals draw to a close, pride in reflecting on accomplishments, and excitement for summer— and fall—plans. Dorms get packed up, in…

The hottest job in the next year? Youth mental health therapist. It has to be.

Around 7 p.m. on April 29, 51-year-old Eric Sheptock learned that a person he’d slept near at the city’s largest homeless shelter, located a couple of blocks west of Union Station, had tested positive for COVID-19. “Then, they told me I’d…

A federal appeals court has revived D.C. and Maryland’s lawsuit against President Donald Trump, allowing the once-dismissed complaint to move forward.

Metro will ask train and bus passengers to wear a mask starting Monday. But, if they don't, it's also unlikely there will be any kind of penalty, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority told the Metro board Thursday.

D.C. residents struggling during the coronavirus pandemic can use their SNAP benefits to pay for groceries on Amazon, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday.