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In China and on the West Coast, data showed that kids mostly stayed out of the hospital if they got the new coronavirus. But it’s a different story in the D.C. area.

Over the past few weeks, our phones have been ringing off the hook with desperate calls from the families of our incarcerated friends in the D.C. Jail and Hope Village. No toilet paper. No running…

Michelle Obama is the latest D.C. resident to urge Washingtonians to stay at home during the coronavirus pandemic.

Along with submitting the final draft of amendments to the Comprehensive Plan to the DC Council, the Office of Planning (OP) has also submitted a report on how the city's single-family zones can…

Tables Without Borders taps refugees and asylum-seekers to feed vulnerable local residents during the COVID-19 crisis.

Both Alanna McKee and her husband Ben contracted COVID-19 in March. Together, they figured out how to raise a four-month-old while beating the virus.

Families in inadequate housing are more vulnerable to COVID-19, one reason the CEO said there’s a heightened need for homes and donations.

WHAT’S A kid to do when school is shut and hanging out with friends is off-limits? Some D.C.-area students have found an answer: 3-D-printed face shields to donate to shortage-ridden hospitals and…

“Insane.” That’s what Marc Gunther thought as he looked out of the window of his downtown Bethesda, Maryland, apartment. Below him, cramped construction crews were building a headquarters and…

The museum has canceled or postponed all exhibits, performances, and programs.

The general manager of Dio Wine Bar on H Street got coronavirus. Then, they had a break-in. But, a Bon Appetit accolade offers a silver lining.

An analysis by doctors at Children’s National Hospital in Washington calls into question the commonly held — and comforting — assumption that children seem to escape the novel coronavirus’s more…

Protecting America’s front yard hasn’t always been easy. To shield the National Mall from damage caused by its 30 million visitors a year, the National Park Service invested $40 million to replace…

A federal judge has ordered St. Elizabeths Hospital to isolate patients exposed to the coronavirus after several deaths in the facility.

Long before the D.C. Public Schools’ (DCPS) central office relinquished $14 million in Head Start grant funds, some parents said they saw the proof in the pudding during what they described as the…

African Americans are dying from COVID-19 at rates well above non-Hispanic white residents. In the District, despite being less than 47 percent of the city’s population, over 75 percent of the…

Biko Sheridan, 11, a fifth grade student at Mundo Verde Public Charter School in Northwest, won the 38th Annual Washington Informer Spelling Bee — besting 30 competitors from other District schools…

Children’s National Hospital asked employees to take one week off between April 5 and June 13 because of financial losses that have resulted from the response to the coronavirus pandemic, a…

For Kevin Hollins, a catering driver at Howard University, there’s one surprising upside of school being closed for the coronavirus: “I actually developed a green thumb.”

The novel coronavirus crisis has launched Washington, D.C., into the most critical period of its short experience with elected government. If ever there was a call for well-grounded, smart…