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Freelancers, independent contractors, gig workers and other self-employed individuals don’t typically qualify for unemployment benefits when they lose their jobs. That is no longer the case, under…

Markets are now required to submit social-distancing plans to the city if they want to stay open

As deaths related to the COVID-19 outbreak continue to rise across the D.C. region, local officials are facing a tough, bleak challenge: how to store the surge of dead bodies.

"A shortage of tests is all the more reason that grocery workers need to be designated first responders."

Jim Turner was looking forward to the start of baseball season. As he’d done in past years, the Bethesda resident sprang for season tickets to see the Washington Nationals, pooling money with a group…

The mixed-use development planned for a prime corner in NoMa appears to be moving forward.

Fewer people in the District are being robbed but more are being assaulted as law-abiding citizens and criminals alike adjust to a new cityscape of empty streets, closed shops and altered routines…

Bill Oberdorfer, executive director of the Avalon Theatre in D.C.’s Chevy Chase, visited the Connecticut Avenue movie house last Thursday to sign two checks. It was his first time there in three…

You can scratch off millions in lost revenue for D.C.

Against the backdrop of a pandemic, pictures and videos of crowds at DC’s Maine Avenue Fish Market, commonly known as the Wharf, circulated over the weekend. On the surface, it was painfully obvious…

The wave of unemployment across the Washington region continues, a month into the coronavirus pandemic. The historic number of people applying for benefits is testing local governments’ ability to…

From thousands of phone calls to Zoombombed virtual happy hours, they're figuring it out.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A line begins forming as a van pulls into the parking lot of a senior living center in Southeast Washington. By the time the half-dozen masked volunteers set up the folding table…

Shop in Place DC is a website listing local businesses open during the Covid-19 crisis.

A former Best New Listing — and 19th-century example of missing middle housing — may soon triple in density.

"It’s the most secure way of getting food and there’s a lot of power in that."

A crafty pet cockatiel that flew away in D.C. has been safely reunited with his family after being found several days later, several miles away.

A D.C. police sergeant on the force for more three decades fell ill while leaving work Wednesday and died later at a hospital, the second veteran member of the department to die in the past three…

Under a new order from the mayor, farmers and fish markets in D.C. are no longer allowed to operate unless they get a waiver, and retail food sellers must inform customers that they need to wear a…

The Trader Joe’s grocery store in D.C.’s U Street corridor is temporarily closed after an employee tested positive for COVID-19, the company announced Wednesday.