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Inside crowded courtyard buildings, where blue-collar Latino families share apartments meant for one, the sick are multiplying.

Activists looking to increase space for pedestrians and bicyclists took matters into their own hands to block some D.C. streets to car traffic on Memorial Day.

Sheila Lucas raised a family of six as a single mother, on the salary of an assistant nurse. Then she adopted four more children. She was shot and wounded while sitting on a porch about three decades ago. Later, diabetes nearly took her…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said Monday that the city is “back on track” to move toward a gradual reopening after seeing a slight spike in new cases over the weekend. Meanwhile, Virginia reported a record number of new cases — mostly…

Events that would have been held at the RFK Campus starting June 8 — including at the stadium and D.C. Armory — have been postponed until further notice.

On Memorial Day, climate and street safety activists throughout DC closed multiple streets to cars to give pedestrians and bicyclists room to exercise while remaining physically distant.

It was a little after noon on a Thursday in May when a gunman fatally shot Lowell Tolliver and wounded another man in the breezeway of a D.C. apartment complex. As people rushed to help the victims, another person was shot a block away.

The Washington region is just weeks from having enough testing equipment, laboratory capacity and contact tracers to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, assuming the public cooperates, officials said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The back door clicked shut behind him and he faced the brick walls of the alley. Roberto, one of tens of millions of newly laid off U.S. workers desperate to make ends meet in the pandemic, struggled with his emotions,…

A new spike in recently-reported cases of the coronavirus has prompted the District’s top health official to adjust one aspect of the city’s timeline for reopening.

Gerald, a childhood friend from Washington, D.C., is serving a life sentence at the United States Penitentiary in Atwater, a prison 15 miles from my home in Merced, California.

New data revealed by D.C. Health Department officials on Sunday show that the two-week benchmark for case decline has not been met. Officials found a discrepancy in coronavirus community spread.

D.C. was on track this weekend to meet the required 14 straight days of declining coronavirus cases for reopening, but a newly discovered spike in cases sent the city back to 11 consecutive days of decline, according to city health…

The D.C. Department of Health reports a new peak in community transmission Sunday which would have been its 14th day of sustained decline in community transmission required for reopening.

As the total number of coronavirus infections in the Washington region topped 90,000 Sunday and fatalities hit 3,880, a one-day spike in the District’s numbers raised questions about whether it can begin reopening as expected Friday.

On the morning of Nov. 14, 1899, messages were delivered to the two most important women in John A. Logan Jr.’s life. A telegram arrived at his wife’s house in Youngstown, Ohio, and a note was delivered to his mother’s house at 13th and…

Ward 7 has always been Vincent C. Gray’s home turf.

In her 70s, when most people are well into retirement, Veronica Norman was still working as a nurse at St. Elizabeths Hospital, the District’s psychiatric facility. Her family had encouraged her to retire, but Norman insisted on continuing…

The metropolitan D.C. area has the highest rate of positive COVID-19 tests in the United States, a key metric in determining whether a jurisdiction is ready to reopen, according to White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx.…

The Ward 2 D.C. Council race has been one of the most spirited local elections in the capital in years, as scandal-tainted Jack Evans seeks to reclaim his seat in a crowded field.