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Expanded summer school. Extra days next year. Staggered start dates in the fall.

As cases of COVID-19 were rapidly increasing last month, the D.C. Department of Human Services notified housing providers that it was temporarily suspending the Coordinated Assessment and Housing…

Elizabeth, a Narcotics Anonymous member and resident of the D.C. metro area, can’t attend her usual meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her Sunday meetings now happen on Zoom. In the previous…

Today, April 16, marks the date 158 years ago, when Washington, D.C., became the only American jurisdiction to end slavery by paying $1 million in ransom to slaveholders to free the 3,100 people…

New parents still welcome babies, and doctors, midwives, and doulas find ways to provide essential care.

But the Council and mayor don't seem into the idea.

While most businesses have shut down during the coronavirus pandemic, there’s one in the D.C. that is actually expanding.

A federal judge weighing a lawsuit against the District over conditions at the DC Jail has been told by independent inspectors that there are substantial challenges at the jail due to the coronavirus…

Right now, in the nation’s capital, a man with intellectual disabilities is in a house, fighting covid-19, with the help of a person who chose to quarantine with him.

So Others Might Eat, a D.C. nonprofit that has grown from a small soup kitchen to a major community service provider with a $35 million annual budget, has made its first CEO change in 42 years.

The shutdown of nonessential businesses will extend until May 15 in the District of Columbia and May 8 in Virginia, as leaders warned against letting up on efforts to slow the spread of the…

Staff shortages prevent the D.C. jail from keeping inmates six feet apart to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, with one guard monitoring up to 45 prisoners, court-appointed inspectors told a…

A former counselor at a D.C. nonprofit group that helps neglected and homeless youths has been charged with sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl at its shelter in Northeast Washington, according to…

The Trump International Hotel in downtown D.C. has filed a layoff notice affecting 237 employees.

A member of the nursing staff at St. Elizabeths Hospital began coughing on March 20. He thought it was his chronic bronchitis flaring up, so he took his medication and took off work to recover. Over…

The pandemic has pared life down to bare necessities, forcing us to close our doors

As an avid NPR listener, Emilie Fairbanks was excited to see This American Life host Ira Glass give a talk at the Kennedy Center this month. But with coronavirus concerns forcing many D.C. venues and…

“More than one dozen workers” at Whole Foods Market’s P Street, Northwest, store “have #coronavirus,” WUSA journalist Michael Quander reported on Twitter Wednesday morning. The tweet thread, now…

New designs are emerging for JBG SMITH's massive development plans at Gallaudet University nearly four years after the project received zoning approval, and a year following dismissal of an appeal.

Libby Wetterer was used to the lifestyle of a busy medical student. In her fourth year at Georgetown Medical School, Wetterer was rotating at the ICU at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital — that…