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The U.S. House on Tuesday abruptly abandoned plans to reconvene in Washington next week, with officials citing the rising number of coronavirus cases in the District and its surrounding suburbs.

Edna Adams defied expectations her entire life.

Amanda Becker was about to head out on a run when she saw the rat in her toilet.

Washington Sports Club will stop charging membership fees while gyms are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced Monday.

About an hour before she was to marry her fiance in the middle of the street Saturday, Amanda Mason walked out of her house on Walter Street SE in a white lace jumpsuit and peach tulle skirt to find…

How the marketing of blackness as a prized aesthetic often leaves the city’s Black residents behind.

D.C. is expanding how it prioritizes coronavirus testing to include critical infrastructure workers who have been exposed but are asymptomatic, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Tuesday.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has recruited a long list of public figures to assist with strategies to reopen the District, while also enlisting former first lady Michelle Obama for public service…

Ever since the novel coronavirus began infecting millions globally and having an unavoidable impact on American life, a lot of people have been reminded about a public health crisis from more than a…

The education committee is also without any current K-12 teachers or principals.

Souvlaki, a tiny Greek restaurant in Baltimore's Hampden neighborhood, added a new location in Adams Morgan at a rather inopportune time.

The group Town Sports International, which operates the Washington Sports Club line, will no longer charge its clients membership fees during the pandemic, the DC Office of the Attorney General…

The Federal Bureau of Prisons says it has transferred upwards of 180 people out of D.C.’s largest halfway house ahead of the facility’s closure later this week.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has enlisted high-profile national figures — including Michelle Obama and celebrity chef José Andrés — to aid the city’s coronavirus response.

The Washington Post Local section is on the receiving end of a truly striking Twitter ratio after publishing a column on Sunday suggesting that Washingtonians “escape lockdown” by taking a pretend…

José Andrés and Andy Shallal are joined by artists, builders, nonprofit leaders, and city workers on the ReOpen DC committee on restaurants and food retailers.

The development boom D.C. has experienced over the last several years is continuing during the pandemic, with dozens of under-construction projects still moving forward.

Ben’s Chili Bowl has accomplished a lot in the last 60-plus years. It’s fed everyone from leaders of the civil rights movement to entertainment superstars to busloads of hungry tourists. Its owners…

In the middle of a pandemic, mostly low-income Washingtonians are riding the bus. It is a lifeline through poorer areas of the nation’s capital where food and services can be hard to reach. And it…

On March 7, the rector of a Georgetown church became patient zero, the first known coronavirus case in the District, causing a flurry of concern for people who had been in recent contact with him.