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The D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs closed the fish market at the Wharf Saturday night after crowds of people were there this weekend not social distancing.

D.C. officials shut down the historic Wharf Fish Market after images that went viral on social media showed a packed market on Saturday.

More than 50,000 D.C. workers have filed for unemployment insurance since the coronavirus outbreak began –– nearly double the annual total of applications in 2019 — as the region reels from an…

When the leaders of D.C., Maryland and Virginia announced unprecedented stay-at-home orders this week to control spread of the coronavirus, the moves sparked questions about how far police might go…

The non-voting member of Congress for the nation’s capital urged colleagues Friday to include language in the next coronavirus relief bill legalizing marijuana sales in Washington, D.C.

Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? And who breaks a kite upon a truncheon?

Are you going a little stir-crazy due to the coronavirus pandemic? If you’re looking to get out of the house and stretch your legs, but also do some good, it’s worth thinking about helping the Rock…

The world is currently facing unprecedented challenges, and the arts can provide a measure of relief. Now that we are unable to interface with our communities physically, we in the field need to be…

The $25 million emergency funding for the Kennedy Center was already a controversial piece of the $2.2 trillion federal stimulus package, but criticism of it grew after the arts center furloughed…

Washington Sports Club may soon be hit with a lawsuit if the company doesn’t stop charging membership fees amid the coronavirus shutdown to all nonessential businesses.

The responses range from agreement to disappointment to confusion to outright anger.

Only one month ago, Andy Berta considered himself a full-time dog walker. Serving the Columbia Heights neighborhood, Berta, better known as “Andy The Dog Walker,” took various pooches out and about…

More than 120 George Washington University faculty members renewed their call this week for the resignation of university President Thomas J. LeBlanc, saying the coronavirus crisis only heightens…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser announced Friday that the city projects 1 in 7 residents will contract coronavirus, with the nation’s capital seeing a peak in hospitalized patients around late June and…

Roughly one in every seven D.C. residents could get infected with coronavirus as the pandemic hits a peak in early summer and then gradually recedes, according to projections Mayor Muriel E. Bowser…

"People need a place, a home, during a pandemic."

“I just got exceptionally good news,” Susie Sinclair-Smith, CEO of the Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless (MCCH) said on a phone call Thursday. A man in one of her organization’s shelters,…

Attorney General Karl A. Racine sent a letter today to the parent company that operates the Washington Sports Club gyms telling the group to stop charging members during the coronavirus pandemic.…

Before the coronavirus crisis began, the D.C. office market was already struggling with high vacancy and stagnant demand, and the freeze in economic activity is only going to make matters worse.

The District says it will set up 17 handwashing stations near homeless encampments and service sites amid the growing COVID-19 pandemic. The move comes as the novel coronavirus continues to spread…