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After months of legal and bureaucratic challenges, D.C. Lottery’s sports betting app is ready to go.

When Jamellah Ellis opened Curl Theory nearly three years ago, she wanted to inspire young girls and women with a salon that would celebrate their natural hair. She also planned to prioritize her new staff.

The people behind the D.C. area’s devastated restaurants are just trying to hang on.

“We simply don’t know what, if any, funds will be available for any kind of emergency relief.”

Nurses and other frontline healthcare staff say they are not being tested for COVID-19, putting them at risk for infection, according to the D.C. Nurses Association (DCNA). The association represents 2,000 nurses and healthcare…

A surge in claims due to COVID-19 makes the delay sting even worse.

Five owners talk about the support they need to survive and what the city would lose if they close.

First graders and friars, scientists and sanitation workers, teen models and the mayor: 24 hours inside the lives upended by a pandemic in the nation’s capital

Day-to-day operations look different now in many of the District’s health care providers that serve low-income and homeless residents. Whitman-Walker Health, Community of Hope, Unity Health Care, and La Clínica del Pueblo are re-orienting…

Nearly 40 school nurses in the District could be temporarily laid off Friday after refusing to help during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a union representing the nurses.

From his cell at the D.C. jail, Kamal Dorchy has spent the past few days writing what he described as “goodbye” letters to his mother, father, ex-wife and 5-year-old daughter. He is afraid he could be the next to get sick.

The union is filing an unfair labor practice against management.

An employee of a Giant in Columbia Heights has tested positive for the coronavirus, and three other employees of the store have been quarantined as a result, according to the union representing thousands of grocery store employees in the…

MARYLAND GOV. Larry Hogan (R) warned this week that the Washington area could soon be as hard-hit as New York City by the coronavirus pandemic. “We’ve doubled over the past just two days, and we look a lot like where New York was just a…

A closer look at the havoc that the pandemic is causing for retail and retail workers

A flurry of coronavirus cases at the District’s public psychiatric hospital and in its homeless shelters has led to quarantine measures this week and calls to improve protections for those who work with some of the city’s most vulnerable…

When D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser issued a stay-at-home order earlier this week, it came with penalties attached: up to 90 days in jail or a $5,000 fine for anyone who violates it. But in guidance issued Wednesday, D.C. Police Chief Peter…

More than 20 U.S. senators have written Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and urged legislative action to make sure D.C. receives hundreds of millions dollars in funding to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.

One outcome that is emerging from the mandated stay-at-home orders and other local initiatives related to the coronavirus pandemic is less traffic on D.C.-area roadways.

Officers and inmates at the D.C. Central Detention Facility have said they fear for their safety and have filed a lawsuit accusing city leaders of not taking the necessary steps to keep the novel coronavirus from spreading inside the…