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If you live nearby, you can now get supplies ferried by a driverless vehicle

It sounds like the opening chapter of a DC-based dystopian novel: There’s a pandemic afoot, everyone’s sheltering-in-place and hoarding masks and battling an invisible virus. But then you realize one of the people living in your…

An official in D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration died from COVID-19 on Friday.

When American University junior Ryann Ashley flew across the country from her college campus in Northwest Washington back to her home in Los Angeles, she felt like the world around her was falling apart.

D.C., Maryland, and Virginia all released executive orders this week that called for the closure of “nonessential businesses” in an attempt to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.

A District arborist parked his truck alongside a tidy row of goose cherry trees on a recent afternoon, logging their conditions into a tablet. They are in good health one year after planting, he said, but the redbuds across the street —…

"The messaging we have been getting is that we need to pursue testing through the commercial lab for our patients.”

A landmark $2 trillion stimulus package to offer the U.S. economic relief from the novel coronavirus pandemic is expected to pass the House on Friday, but it classifies D.C. as a territory instead of a state — leaving the District short…

Broadway is dark. The West End is closed. Even the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace — that glorious piece of state theater — has been halted. As theaters darken across the globe, where can we find the light?

On a recent Sunday afternoon, I sat in my apartment in Northwest D.C. drinking coffee, when suddenly seven or eight loud cracks rang out. Shortly thereafter, the wail of sirens filled the air around our building, and my fears were…

Cassandra Poggi gets anxious in small spaces. She feels trapped when she’s told where she can or cannot go.

It’s a tense ritual that unfolds in the nation’s capital every year. About 25,000 families apply to secure a slot at public schools through the competitive school lottery system. Then, they wait for a randomly assigned number to decide…

“This is a public service announcement. Please practice social distancing.”

Travel and tourism is an integral part of the Washington, D.C., economy.

As the shortage of protective gear worsens at hospitals across the county and in the D.C. region, some health care workers are having to choose between the health of their families and the health of their patients.

The D.C. jail has quarantined 36 inmates officials think may have come into contact with a 20-year-old male inmate who tested positive for the novel coronavirus late Wednesday, jail officials said.

It might be challenging enough being a seriously sick kid stuck in the hospital long term.

Distance learning may have emptied out college classrooms around the region to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, but that hasn’t stopped medical students from finding other ways to help.

D.C. Council member Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) asked the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Thursday to provide residents of Hope Village, the city’s only halfway house for men, with essential supplies and release as many as possible to home…

Rep. Matt Gaetz questioned emergency funding being directed to Howard University, suggesting that the allocation does not belong in a $2 trillion relief bill designed to blunt the novel coronavirus pandemic’s effect on the economy.