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A global pandemic and economic crisis is not slowing down the Parks at Walter Reed development team, which is planning to begin construction on a new mixed-use building next month.

The District’s public school system will lay off dozens of employees and make other cuts to its preschool program for low-income families, officials said Wednesday, after failing to meet federal…

A Southeast D.C. affordable housing community, which has been the center of a lawsuit from the D.C. government and a rent strike from its tenants, has come under new ownership.

Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that the District is extending its state of emergency order until at least May 15. The extension is needed to continue to “flatten the curve” and reduce the number of…

A District government agency last week removed hundreds of campaign signs showing support for an upstart political candidate who’s challenging a well-funded D.C. councilmember in the June Democratic…

Shared moped company Revel, which received District Department of Transportation approval to roll out a fleet of mopeds in D.C. last fall, is making mopeds available for free to D.C. restaurants to…

While stay-at-home orders have restricted or effectively curtailed most outdoor activities, D.C. resident beekeeper Bob Albright can rest assured the coronavirus crackdown won’t put a stop to his…

When Taylar Nuevelle went to the women’s emergency shelter at King Greenleaf Recreation Center on April 7 to drop off a cellphone for a client, what she saw was “heartbreaking.”

“We are closed for the virus. Thank you for your understanding. God bless you. Thanks.”

Other cities are closing roads and creating pop-up bike lanes to provide space for exercise

The worker says cases have been popping up at the location since mid-March, the store has not been shut down for a deep cleaning and shoppers are not being told.

Haimonot is an Ethiopian refugee, and her passion is cooking.

Rapid testing for the coronavirus is trickling into the D.C. region as public health departments and some hospitals and clinics get machines that issue results in minutes. Still, testing supplies and…

Request comes after federal transit officials released coronavirus prevention guidelines

If you are a D.C. government employee and have to physically report to work during the coronavirus public health emergency, you may find something extra in your check.

A New York real estate firm acquired a Downtown D.C. office building this week in a deal the broker said was made more difficult by the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing economic crisis.

D.C.’s seven medical marijuana dispensaries can now deliver to patients and offer curbside and at-the-door pickup, according to an emergency rule from the D.C. Department of Health that went into…

Four patients at St. Elizabeths public psychiatric hospital have died from complications of COVID-19, the city announced on Monday. The patients were an 81-year-old woman, a 77-year-old man, a…

Last month we asked whether DC will be able to meet the financial challenges the Coronavirus scourge will cost the District, specifically major loss of tax revenues.

In a little-noticed development, the D.C. government has joined the Trump administration in prohibiting legal sexually oriented businesses such as nude dance clubs and adult video stores from…