2020

Good Thursday afternoon. A coalition of 30-plus community groups is urging DC officials to step up relief efforts for DC residents affected by the coronavirus pandemic and the economic fallout.

The Metro board on Thursday adopted the transit agency's $3.9 billion fiscal 2021 budget, which includes a partial return to late-night train hours, some bus service cuts and a fare hike.

Metro’s Board of Directors unanimously approved the agency’s fiscal year 2021 budget on Thursday, but major questions remain about its implementation as the agency reacts to the coronavirus outbreak.

When COVID-19 began spreading across the U.S., David Giusti assumed it would be a slow year for his Northern Virginia farm. The economy was heading into a nosedive and business wasn’t looking good for his community-supported, or CSA,…

In a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, twenty-five Democratic Senators—including presidential candidate Bernie Sanders—criticized last week’s $2 trillion economic stimulus package for…

Allison Criner-Brown and her husband faced an unexpected jolt last month when the D.C. day care they sent their 2-year-old to closed its doors amid the spreading coronavirus pandemic. They would suddenly have to balance having their two…

After months of legal and bureaucratic challenges, D.C. Lottery’s sports betting app is ready to go.

When Jamellah Ellis opened Curl Theory nearly three years ago, she wanted to inspire young girls and women with a salon that would celebrate their natural hair. She also planned to prioritize her new staff.

The people behind the D.C. area’s devastated restaurants are just trying to hang on.

“We simply don’t know what, if any, funds will be available for any kind of emergency relief.”

Nurses and other frontline healthcare staff say they are not being tested for COVID-19, putting them at risk for infection, according to the D.C. Nurses Association (DCNA). The association represents 2,000 nurses and healthcare…

A surge in claims due to COVID-19 makes the delay sting even worse.

Five owners talk about the support they need to survive and what the city would lose if they close.

First graders and friars, scientists and sanitation workers, teen models and the mayor: 24 hours inside the lives upended by a pandemic in the nation’s capital

Day-to-day operations look different now in many of the District’s health care providers that serve low-income and homeless residents. Whitman-Walker Health, Community of Hope, Unity Health Care, and La Clínica del Pueblo are re-orienting…

Nearly 40 school nurses in the District could be temporarily laid off Friday after refusing to help during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a union representing the nurses.

From his cell at the D.C. jail, Kamal Dorchy has spent the past few days writing what he described as “goodbye” letters to his mother, father, ex-wife and 5-year-old daughter. He is afraid he could be the next to get sick.

The union is filing an unfair labor practice against management.

An employee of a Giant in Columbia Heights has tested positive for the coronavirus, and three other employees of the store have been quarantined as a result, according to the union representing thousands of grocery store employees in the…