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Excluded from government aid, these restaurant workers are turning to their faith and family.

Father Stephen Planning had tested positive for the virus in mid-March.

Hospitals and local governments in the D.C. region are hunting for scarce medical supplies to protect healthcare workers from contagion as they treat COVID-19 patients. Local doctors and nurses say they’re already feeling the effects of…

Buying a home in a city generally costs more and gets less than the suburbs, and that holds true for D.C.

Zenia Laws and her husband, Hassan, bought a cozy 500-square-foot condo in D.C’s Columbia Heights neighborhood about two and half years ago. Life in their tiny space has been great, she says. But last month, the couple decided to buy a…

Alicia Bautista, a hotel housekeeper, is worried being laid off means she’ll lose the Silver Spring townhouse she bought in February after saving for nine years.

They say all the world is a stage, but what happens when the world closes the stage?

Two people died inside the Hope Village halfway house in Southeast Washington in just three days.

The novel coronavirus and the resulting quarantine have revealed just how much deference we give to the automobile (or to be precise, parked automobiles) in Washington, D.C., to the detriment of nearly every single form of transportation —…

Well-known D.C. chef Geoff Tracy has come up with an idea to support his employees and help the community while keeping the kitchens going at Chef Geoff’s in Northwest D.C. and Lia’s in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

The D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs closed the fish market at the Wharf Saturday night after crowds of people were there this weekend not social distancing.

D.C. officials shut down the historic Wharf Fish Market after images that went viral on social media showed a packed market on Saturday.

More than 50,000 D.C. workers have filed for unemployment insurance since the coronavirus outbreak began –– nearly double the annual total of applications in 2019 — as the region reels from an economic downturn caused by measures designed…

When the leaders of D.C., Maryland and Virginia announced unprecedented stay-at-home orders this week to control spread of the coronavirus, the moves sparked questions about how far police might go to enforce them.

The non-voting member of Congress for the nation’s capital urged colleagues Friday to include language in the next coronavirus relief bill legalizing marijuana sales in Washington, D.C.

Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? And who breaks a kite upon a truncheon?

Are you going a little stir-crazy due to the coronavirus pandemic? If you’re looking to get out of the house and stretch your legs, but also do some good, it’s worth thinking about helping the Rock Creek Conservancy.

The world is currently facing unprecedented challenges, and the arts can provide a measure of relief. Now that we are unable to interface with our communities physically, we in the field need to be thoughtful about how we move the wellness…

The $25 million emergency funding for the Kennedy Center was already a controversial piece of the $2.2 trillion federal stimulus package, but criticism of it grew after the arts center furloughed hundreds of employees Tuesday, within days…

Washington Sports Club may soon be hit with a lawsuit if the company doesn’t stop charging membership fees amid the coronavirus shutdown to all nonessential businesses.