2020

George Washington University Hospital opened a tent to treat coronavirus patients at its Foggy Bottom campus on Wednesday, as authorities reported dozens more cases and medical facilities struggled to keep pace.

Former Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans has withdrawn from the special election necessitated by his resignation earlier this year, Evans confirmed to DCist on Wednesday.

The transit agency is seeking emergency federal assistance from Congress under “dire circumstances.”

Social distancing is lonely. Is there a worse way to cope with global pandemic and economic collapse than by completely cutting off all in-person interactions and staying at home alone for weeks on end? Humans were not built for this.

The first clue to the story behind the papers discovered in the basement of the Georgetown mansion was who didn’t write them.

D.C.’s new public campaign-financing program is currently in its first election year, and it has already seen about a dozen candidates qualify for more than $1 million in city funding. And on Wednesday, the campaign of one of those…

Former D.C. Council member Jack Evans said he will not run in the special election to fill the vacancy he created by resigning before he could be expelled for ethics violations.

Happy Wednesday. DC announced yesterday that nine men tested positive for the coronavirus, bringing the city's total known cases to 31.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, local drag queen and theater designer Justin Schmitz is in a pinch.

A plan to redevelop a church in upper Northwest D.C. and add senior housing has received opposition from a neighborhood group, and it is now taking the project to court.

D.C. bars and restaurants, closed to customers other than takeout or delivery, can now include beer, wine or spirits with those orders.

D.C.’s child protective services agency does not currently have enough medical supplies—including masks, hand sanitizer, or gloves—to provide to all the social workers who serve on the front lines of child welfare investigations, according…

District lawmakers are now using $900,000 the city’s lawyers won in a suit against a local developer to subsidize new affordable senior housing at an Anacostia project backed by that same builder.

Washingtonian Magazine has laid off its fellows and instituted a 10 percent pay cut for staffers amid a drop in revenue due to the coronavirus.

“A lot of children are not food secure, so these breaks are an issue for them.”

"We're just trying to keep our eye on the bigger picture, stay level-headed, and remember everybody is in this fight with us."

Adams Morgan could be the next DC neighborhood with a missing middle project on the boards.

It only took a global pandemic to bring two reliably adversarial branches of the D.C. government into agreement. In what will likely be its final in-person legislative meeting for several weeks, the D.C. Council passed emergency…