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The Washington Nationals were scheduled to host their first home game since winning the World Series on Thursday, and the new retailers on Half Street were supposed to make their long-awaited debut…

The D.C. Council is readying a second round of legislation to respond to the growing economic fallout from the coronavirus, this time crafting provisions to provide some rent and mortgage relief for…

Two people confined in Hope Village, a 300-bed federal halfway house in Southeast D.C., are bringing a class-action lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the D.C. Department of Corrections…

Advocates for prisoners and psychiatric patients filed separate court actions Thursday that sought the release of some mentally ill people from District facilities and detainees at the city’s only…

Shelter in place? Stay at home? Not for these guys, who have no home and want nothing to do with a D.C. shelter.

The Metro board on Thursday adopted the transit agency's $3.9 billion fiscal 2021 budget, which includes a partial return to late-night train hours, some bus service cuts and a fare hike.

Metro’s Board of Directors unanimously approved the agency’s fiscal year 2021 budget on Thursday, but major questions remain about its implementation as the agency reacts to the coronavirus outbreak.…

When COVID-19 began spreading across the U.S., David Giusti assumed it would be a slow year for his Northern Virginia farm. The economy was heading into a nosedive and business wasn’t looking good…

In a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, twenty-five Democratic Senators—including presidential candidate Bernie Sanders—criticized last week’s $2…

Allison Criner-Brown and her husband faced an unexpected jolt last month when the D.C. day care they sent their 2-year-old to closed its doors amid the spreading coronavirus pandemic. They would…

After months of legal and bureaucratic challenges, D.C. Lottery’s sports betting app is ready to go.

When Jamellah Ellis opened Curl Theory nearly three years ago, she wanted to inspire young girls and women with a salon that would celebrate their natural hair. She also planned to prioritize her new…

The people behind the D.C. area’s devastated restaurants are just trying to hang on.

“We simply don’t know what, if any, funds will be available for any kind of emergency relief.”

Nurses and other frontline healthcare staff say they are not being tested for COVID-19, putting them at risk for infection, according to the D.C. Nurses Association (DCNA). The association represents…

A surge in claims due to COVID-19 makes the delay sting even worse.

Five owners talk about the support they need to survive and what the city would lose if they close.

First graders and friars, scientists and sanitation workers, teen models and the mayor: 24 hours inside the lives upended by a pandemic in the nation’s capital

Day-to-day operations look different now in many of the District’s health care providers that serve low-income and homeless residents. Whitman-Walker Health, Community of Hope, Unity Health Care, and…

Nearly 40 school nurses in the District could be temporarily laid off Friday after refusing to help during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a union representing the nurses.