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Housing inspectors say DCRA has failed to provide workers with adequate protection during the coronavirus pandemic.

Noel Sinkiat, 64, planned to retire in December after 41 years working as a nurse at Howard University Hospital. He would finally go on a long motorcycle trip with his friends.

Latease Jordan’s college, like most colleges, is basically closed. Classrooms have shuttered, offices are locked shut, courses have shifted online.

Long before the coronavirus began to decimate the local economy, the D.C. Department of Employment Services promised a modern, user-friendly portal for submitting unemployment claims.

The global deaf and hard of hearing community has turned to Gallaudet University as their source of bilingual information during the coronavirus pandemic.

D.C. charter schools get most of their funding from the government, a revenue stream that continues to flow as the coronavirus grinds the District’s economy to a halt. But some of the schools are now weighing whether they should apply for…

The Metro board on Thursday approved a budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1, but acknowledged it may have to be revisited as soon as June because of the fiscal uncertainty created by the coronavirus pandemic.

Washington-area leaders slammed the Trump administration Thursday over significant shortfalls in the number of hospital ventilators, respirator masks, gloves and other supplies delivered from a national stockpile to help combat the…

Kenneth J. Moore was a father figure wherever he went. By day, he helped counsel and guard teenagers who had been arrested in the District for the city’s Youth Rehabilitation Services. On nights and weekends, he was a dad to his three…

A sparkling new Australian embassy in view of the White House; the big-budget Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge near Nationals Park; a mixed-use development along the U Street NW corridor that will feature housing, offices, and a museum;…

The Washington Nationals were scheduled to host their first home game since winning the World Series on Thursday, and the new retailers on Half Street were supposed to make their long-awaited debut around the season opener.

The D.C. Council is readying a second round of legislation to respond to the growing economic fallout from the coronavirus, this time crafting provisions to provide some rent and mortgage relief for local businesses, tenants and…

Two people confined in Hope Village, a 300-bed federal halfway house in Southeast D.C., are bringing a class-action lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the D.C. Department of Corrections and Hope Village Inc, the company that…

Advocates for prisoners and psychiatric patients filed separate court actions Thursday that sought the release of some mentally ill people from District facilities and detainees at the city’s only halfway house for men because of the…

Shelter in place? Stay at home? Not for these guys, who have no home and want nothing to do with a D.C. shelter.

The Metro board on Thursday adopted the transit agency's $3.9 billion fiscal 2021 budget, which includes a partial return to late-night train hours, some bus service cuts and a fare hike.

Metro’s Board of Directors unanimously approved the agency’s fiscal year 2021 budget on Thursday, but major questions remain about its implementation as the agency reacts to the coronavirus outbreak.

When COVID-19 began spreading across the U.S., David Giusti assumed it would be a slow year for his Northern Virginia farm. The economy was heading into a nosedive and business wasn’t looking good for his community-supported, or CSA,…

In a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, twenty-five Democratic Senators—including presidential candidate Bernie Sanders—criticized last week’s $2 trillion economic stimulus package for…

Allison Criner-Brown and her husband faced an unexpected jolt last month when the D.C. day care they sent their 2-year-old to closed its doors amid the spreading coronavirus pandemic. They would suddenly have to balance having their two…