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The city’s newest memorial honoring the presidential and military legacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower is filled with sounds of jackhammers, pounding concrete, and idling bulldozers. It’s a Friday afternoon, less than a week before it is set to…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday the District has spent nearly $1 billion on pandemic-related costs in the six months since the first case was recorded in the District. That spending has hamstrung the city’s ability to offer…

My life changed on a perfectly sunny October morning in 2018 when my mother stepped out to buy a hairbrush and never came back. She was struck by the driver of a pickup truck while crossing at 15th and H streets NW, with a new hairbrush in…

A D.C. health official urged more residents who tested positive for coronavirus to better help contact tracers complete necessary interviews within three days.

After more than a decade of planning and anticipation, construction now can begin on the Capital Jewish Museum in downtown D.C.

At the start of the pandemic, when shutdown orders went into effect, many businesses faced a frightening scenario: revenue came to an abrupt halt while expenses continued to pile up. But the businesses that most needed help had to wait the…

Local parks have become increasingly popular over the past few months, and D.C. is about to get a bunch more. PARK(ing) Day, an annual event that brings pop-up parks to the District, will return on Sept. 18.

A D.C. health official urged more residents who tested positive for coronavirus to better help contact tracers complete necessary interviews within three days.

The city is working with public and charter schools to make hybrid learning happen.

On Thursday, D.C. officials said they are introducing new, easier-to-understand metrics for the public to better track the spread of the coronavirus.

D.C. residents won’t only be casting a ballot for the U.S. president this November amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

About 4,500 fewer students are enrolled in D.C. schools this academic year compared to the same time last year, officials said, as schools across the city try new ways to reach families during the pandemic.

“Wagner Opticians,” she said, answering her mobile phone with a crisp office voice.

DRASTIC SERVICE cuts are ahead for the D.C. area’s transit system as officials face a loss of roughly a tenth of the network’s current operating revenue. For a fuller grasp of the potential meltdown facing Metro — second in subway…

Landlords are fighting a legal battle against D.C.'s ban on eviction filings. A judge will eventually decide whether the moratorium violates their constitutional rights.

The former Kith and Kin chef will add Trinidadian flavor to the classic half-smoke

Miriam Perlacio lived in Ward 2 for 15 years, and remembers how much her neighbors supported her after she immigrated to this country from Peru. She spoke to DCist/WAMU as she was setting up a clothing swap in the Logan Circle neighborhood…

A lack of information from some D.C. residents who test positive for the novel coronavirus is hurting the city’s efforts to corral the virus’s spread, officials said Thursday.

D.C. is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and updating its data systems to prepare for the possible roll out of a coronavirus vaccine.

George Washington University has developed and is launching its own in-house COVID testing, but, it is only to available students and employees of the private university.