2020

Zalaunshae leaned close to the laptop camera, her oversize pink bows filling the computer screen. The teacher asked students to name characters in “The Enormous Turnip.” Zalaunshae raised her hand first.

Cashless restaurants and retailers would no longer be able to operate in the nation’s capital under legislation approved Tuesday by the D.C. Council, one of several business measures advanced ahead of a year-end deadline.

Aaron Silverman's pop-up delivery and catering service has found a permanent home at Barracks Row.

On a Friday morning in late November, three classrooms with a handful of masked students at Savoy Elementary School were silent — but also more alive than they’d been since March.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday passed several transportation measures, including one that would make it easier for some road users, including e-scooter riders, to recoup a share of medical bills and other costs if injured in a collision.

Litter has plagued many D.C. streets and alleys for years, and over the last eight months, the pandemic has only exacerbated the issue. Now, a new government initiative is testing a strategy to promote proper trash disposal, and they’re…

The city has more than 80,000 health care workers, but will receive just 8,000 doses in its first allocation, according to recent estimates.

D.C. Public Schools abandoned a plan to return some students in person learning earlier in November. Now, one student at Langley Elementary School in Eckington considers what finishing out the school year on a virtual format might look…

As election season comes to an end, candidates are running out of time to clear their campaign posters from D.C. streets.

Esquire may have deemed Seven Reasons the nation's best new restaurant of 2019, but its owners believe they are far from perfect.

Metro’s proposed sweeping budget cuts in the face of the ongoing pandemic will leave the rail and bus system operating vastly different than ever before. The proposal includes no weekend train service, closing the system at 9 p.m. with…

Bladensburg, Maryland-based Bates Trucking Company has paid almost $79,000 to settle a complaint by the D.C. Office of the Attorney General that it violated the District’s noise restrictions by picking up trash too early in the morning and…

Transit officials need to fill a nearly $500 million funding shortfall.

A new D.C. program lets landlords apply directly for $10 million in government grants to cover tenants’ missed rent payments during the coronavirus pandemic.

Samuel George, a 36-year-old filmmaker who’s originally from Philadelphia, has an unlikely connection to go-go music.

The D.C. Council gave initial approval Tuesday to bills aimed at correcting historical injustices — including renaming a recreation center and park to honor a man born into slavery, whose descendants owned land appropriated for the park,…