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Against the backdrop of a pandemic, pictures and videos of crowds at DC’s Maine Avenue Fish Market, commonly known as the Wharf, circulated over the weekend. On the surface, it was painfully obvious that the six feet social distancing…

The wave of unemployment across the Washington region continues, a month into the coronavirus pandemic. The historic number of people applying for benefits is testing local governments’ ability to accept applications and pay new benefits…

From thousands of phone calls to Zoombombed virtual happy hours, they're figuring it out.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A line begins forming as a van pulls into the parking lot of a senior living center in Southeast Washington. By the time the half-dozen masked volunteers set up the folding table and start pulling out plastic bags filled…

Shop in Place DC is a website listing local businesses open during the Covid-19 crisis.

A former Best New Listing — and 19th-century example of missing middle housing — may soon triple in density.

"It’s the most secure way of getting food and there’s a lot of power in that."

A crafty pet cockatiel that flew away in D.C. has been safely reunited with his family after being found several days later, several miles away.

A D.C. police sergeant on the force for more three decades fell ill while leaving work Wednesday and died later at a hospital, the second veteran member of the department to die in the past three days.

Under a new order from the mayor, farmers and fish markets in D.C. are no longer allowed to operate unless they get a waiver, and retail food sellers must inform customers that they need to wear a mask.

The Trader Joe’s grocery store in D.C.’s U Street corridor is temporarily closed after an employee tested positive for COVID-19, the company announced Wednesday.

Kamal Dorchy, an inmate at the D.C. Jail, suffers from leukopenia, or a lowered white blood cell count. And as the count of coronavirus cases climbs past three dozen at the jail facilities, he fears the worst.

In addition to the maximum $444 in weekly unemployment benefits that the District will distribute, out-of-work D.C. employees are eligible to receive an extra $600 per week thanks to the massive federal relief package Congress passed in…

Alexandria officials have begun placing long-awaited projects such as a new Waterfront Park on hold. The D.C. government has frozen hiring and will forgo salary increases. And in Montgomery County, a proposal for a supplemental property…

If there weren’t a deadly virus making the rounds, the Washington Nationals would have been wrapping up a home series with the Miami Marlins on Wednesday, with a World Series banner flapping in the breeze somewhere in the outfield…

If you could have peeked into a building on Gallaudet University’s campus on a recent day, you would have seen a 6-foot-3 man crawling on the floor.

The next 30 days could show if the District will be in the next wave of hot spots or if social distancing measures have been effective at “flattening the curve”

With D.C. residents under stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic, access to nature feels tenuous for many, even as spring marches forward. But there’s at least one socially distant solution: backyard birding, though backyards…

A D.C. police sergeant on the force for more three decades fell ill while leaving work Wednesday and died later at a hospital, the second veteran member of the department to die in the past three days.

An employee who tested positive for COVID-19 was last in the store on April 5.