2020

District officials in late March announced the first count of coronavirus cases among the city’s homeless, saying five had tested positive in shelters and 49 were in quarantine at hotels.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Friday shared details of his plan to slowly loosen shutdown restrictions at the end of next week, while leaders in the District and suburban Maryland said they were not ready to consider reopening as…

Christine Butts finally got her money.

TGIF. DC yesterday matched its highest daily number of deaths linked to COVID-19, equaling the 19 deaths reported on April 30. The spread of the coronavirus is not flatlining yet, as the city this morning reported 245 new confirmed cases,…

Yet another victim of the coronavirus pandemic is a program that brightens D.C. streets.

The effort to redevelop Petworth’s Hebrew Home for the Aged just cleared a major hurdle, following years of stops and starts on the project.

D.C. is suing Monsanto Co. and two affiliated companies, alleging they knowingly manufactured, promoted and sold toxic chemicals that polluted the Potomac River and its tributaries.

Daryl Blackeney has lived in the skilled nursing facility at United Medical Center for three years and seven months. That’s all about to change in the next week, as D.C.’s public hospital — and the only one east of the Anacostia River —…

“It makes no sense” to open up D.C. restaurants while people are still dying during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Friday.

D.C. police sees no change in gun-related offenses; Fairfax reports less DUIs

The District is a ghost of its former self, with once-bustling streets empty, playgrounds taped off, and popular retail and dining corridors in Georgetown, Logan Circle and H Street deserted.

The latest draft of DC's Comprehensive Plan released last month also came with a deluge of comments from the city's advisory neighborhood commissions (ANCs).

A project that would create 185 affordable housing units in Northwest D.C.'s Petworth neighborhood is moving forward. 

"you really think I would be promoting something that's going to be giving vaccines to my people?"

The 14-year-old girl was on her usual commute home when it happened: two other young girls dragged her off the Metro and began punching and kicking her, beating her to the ground.

The novel coronavirus has brought our nation tremendous heartache and wreaked havoc on our economy. To her credit, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has responded quickly and decisively, wisely relying on science and evidence when making…

Everyone is experiencing the coronavirus pandemic a little differently.