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Metro will start requiring masks or a cloth face covering on buses and trains starting Monday, but enforcement won’t be heavy-handed, officials say.

Beginning Monday, all Metro and Metrobus riders will be required to wear masks or face coverings to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, the agency’s chief safety officer said Thursday.

The District could soon allow restaurants to expand outdoor cafes further into sidewalks or even onto public streets in a bid to boost business whenever diners are allowed to return for sit-down meals.

You shouldn’t have to risk your life to buy food to feed your family. And you shouldn’t have to risk your life when you do your job providing sustenance to your fellow Americans.

When stay-at-home orders were announced, the first thing Melanie Choukas-Bradley did was order a hammock and some vegetable seeds. Even if her favorite outdoor spots were closed, she would have a place to lie down and contemplate the…

For college students, late spring is a time to bask in the joys of another school year wrapped up: relief as finals draw to a close, pride in reflecting on accomplishments, and excitement for summer— and fall—plans. Dorms get packed up, in…

The hottest job in the next year? Youth mental health therapist. It has to be.

Around 7 p.m. on April 29, 51-year-old Eric Sheptock learned that a person he’d slept near at the city’s largest homeless shelter, located a couple of blocks west of Union Station, had tested positive for COVID-19. “Then, they told me I’d…

A federal appeals court has revived D.C. and Maryland’s lawsuit against President Donald Trump, allowing the once-dismissed complaint to move forward.

Metro will ask train and bus passengers to wear a mask starting Monday. But, if they don't, it's also unlikely there will be any kind of penalty, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority told the Metro board Thursday.

D.C. residents struggling during the coronavirus pandemic can use their SNAP benefits to pay for groceries on Amazon, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday.

As D.C. elections go, the June 16 special election to fill the vacant Ward 2 Council seat might appear to have little citywide importance. The winner only gets to serve the unfinished term of Jack Evans (D), which expires in January. At…

D.C.’s Georgetown University is facing a $50 million shortfall and will make belt-tightening moves, such as withholding merit raises and stopping contributions to employee retirement plans, as it responds to the financial impact of the…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of illegally profiting off the presidency through his luxury Washington hotel.

Few museums appear to have found any federal support for the long summer ahead.

A federal appeals court on Thursday revived a lawsuit seeking to block President Trump’s hotel in downtown Washington from accepting payments from foreign and state governments.

Ward 2 voters have options. But they might have too many options.

Most kids are missing their friends and teachers while they are stuck at home, but one kindergarten class in Southeast D.C. is missing another special friend.

“It’s like opening a peeing section in a pool,” says Ian Boden, the owner of The Shack—a small destination restaurant in Staunton, Virginia. “The truth is, well-to-do people in D.C. are going to come to Virginia as soon as it opens. With…

If you had to make a museum exhibit explaining the coronavirus pandemic to future generations, what would you put in it?