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The chief judge of D.C. Superior Court announced Tuesday he will retire in September.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday passed sweeping coronavirus relief legislation that freezes rent increases and makes it easier for inmates to win early release.

D.C. zoning officials could soon offer a six-month extensions for projects that are facing key deadlines amidst the coronavirus outbreak.

Gray got hospital grant funds, Silverman used the chat function to correct the record, and McDuffie propped business community's parking benefit objection.

With nearly 9,000 confirmed positive cases and 188 deaths from the coronavirus reported in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia combined, local and national officials warn that the region could become one of the country’s next “hot spots.”

A judge on Tuesday rejected a request that he order a D.C. halfway house to begin reducing its population of nearly 200 men, after federal prison officials said Tuesday that 13 residents were set to be approved for release to home…

Things are far from normal at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in D.C. as zookeepers there can’t practice social distancing while doing their jobs. So far, no employees or animals are sick, and no animals have been tested for coronavirus,…

Now that walking outside is one of the few avenues of normalcy most of us can enjoy, it’s become a veritable jungle out there. Here’s a short field guide to some of the breathtaking fauna you can spot on your government-sanctioned daily…

A D.C. police sergeant who fell ill at work Monday and died unexpectedly later that day was a 23-year veteran who most recently supervised officers who work as liaisons to the department in Superior Court.

The pandemic has shut down much of civic life and forced people outside as solo recreation becomes the last reprieve from our stay-at-home orders.

When D.C. public schools closed on March 13, Na’Asia Hawkins was eight courses and five months short of walking across the graduation stage this summer. But now her courses were quickly shifting online, where Hawkins had little hope of…

A multifamily developer who has built hundreds of units throughout the D.C. region is now taking his talents to the beach.

Meeting remotely for the first time in its 45-year history, the D.C. Council on Tuesday unanimously passed its second emergency COVID-19 relief bill, a measure that establishes a rent freeze and mortgage payment deferrals, an expansion of…

On Tuesday, the D.C. government passed emergency legislation designed to help shepherd people through the significant economic and health challenges of the coronavirus outbreak. But one key part of the original bill was missing from the…

George Washington University has partnered with Sterling, Virginia-based JK Moving Services and Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Storage Squad to pack up dorms and store or ship student belongings after the campus was closed for the rest of…

Undocumented and informal economy workers were again left out of a D.C. Council coronavirus relief package.

The votes may have come from their living rooms, but on Tuesday the D.C. Council unanimously approved an emergency bill extending additional relief to residents and businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

Three criminal-defense attorneys discuss the mayor's authority to enforce social distancing.

Musicians will take a pay cut but will now be paid while the Center is closed

The District will soon offer rent and mortgage relief for renters and businesses struggling with the coronavirus fallout, and issue up to $500 million in bonds to cope with the city’s own economic challenges during the pandemic.