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Starting today, residents of the D.C. area may spot helicopters flying at rather low altitudes above the city and surrounding region ahead of the presidential inauguration.

A helicopter flying low over the Washington area on Monday was measuring naturally occurring background radiation as part of security efforts for the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s National…

The barely year-old Greater Washington Black Chamber of Commerce has hired its first executive director as the organization gears up for a big fall.

The National Gallery of Art will reopen more galleries next week, but for the first winter in 20 years it will not reopen its popular ice-skating rink in the Sculpture Garden.

A federal judge on Sunday formally struck down a Trump administration attempt to end food stamp benefits for nearly 700,000 unemployed people, blocking as “arbitrary and capricious” the first of three such planned measures to restrict the…

It’s not a total goodbye. The shop is hoping to pop up elsewhere.

Orange delivered a speech to a 50-person crowd at the Mansion on O Street in Dupont Sunday evening.

The Shaw restaurant will have a new four-course prix-fixe menu.

Kobe Bryant’s game-worn 2008 National Basketball Association Finals jersey is now on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

The District is launching a new smartphone app to assist in contact tracing as it continues the fight against coronavirus — but it won’t work with a similar tool for Virginia, and Maryland doesn’t have one yet.

Residents can opt in beginning Tuesday, and then be notified if they've unwittingly come into contact with a positive case.

The District’s COVID-19 exposure notification tool will launch this week, the city announced Monday.

While many large cities, particularly San Francisco and New York, have seen a decline in the pace of rising home sales and home prices, and an exodus in renters — the number of vacant apartments in Manhattan rose to 15,000 in August,…

D.C. health officials on Monday added eight states to the city’s list of locations considered “high-risk” for travel because of the coronavirus pandemic, raising the total number of states under the designation to 39 as new cases continue…

The design for the Dupont Circle deck-over woonerf continues to evolve — and now, by popular demand, includes bike lanes.

A number of D.C. roadways have shut down or partially closed to traffic during the coronavirus pandemic — and a new study has examined the impact.

D.C.’s executive order calling for anyone traveling to the District for nonessential activities from places deemed Covid-19 hot spots to self-quarantine has been updated with a new list of 39 states it considers high-risk.

As coronavirus cases continue to rise around the nation, D.C. added eight states to its list of high-risk states where the seven-day moving average of daily new coronavirus cases is 10 or more per 100,000 persons.

More than 70 community and public health organizations are coming together and calling on D.C. legislators to stop the sale of all flavored tobacco products in the District.