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D.C.-area restaurants owners are hoping for some support from their patrons, through gift cards or take-out or through their individual fundraisers to pay employees.

D.C. officials say they plan on encouraging more residents to use absentee ballots to vote by mail and will limit the number of physical voting sites for the June 2 primary. The changes are part of a…

The volunteer network spans 37 states and the United Kingdom.

The number of D.C. firefighters who have confirmed cases of COVID-19 reached 12 on Thursday, and, as of Friday morning, 108 additional firefighters are in quarantine to prevent the spread of…

The D.C. Jail has confirmed its first case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. A 20-year-old man being held in the Correctional Treatment Facility tested positive for the virus…

An old saying among gamblers is that if you don’t know who the weakest player at the table is then it’s probably you.

None of that was enough to stop an announcement from Pepco.

As the United States grapples with the novel coronavirus pandemic, the nation’s capital plans to pare down in-person voting and encourage mail-in voting for the District of Columbia’s June 2 primary…

The D.C. Board of Elections is encouraging residents to request mail ballots for the June 2 primary and the June 16 special election in Ward 2, calling it the safest choice in light of the social…

Nearly a year after it acquired the site from the General Services Administration, we now know what Pacific Star Capital wants to do with a pie-shaped piece of land by C and 12th streets SW in the…

If you live nearby, you can now get supplies ferried by a driverless vehicle

It sounds like the opening chapter of a DC-based dystopian novel: There’s a pandemic afoot, everyone’s sheltering-in-place and hoarding masks and battling an invisible virus. But then you realize one…

An official in D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration died from COVID-19 on Friday.

When American University junior Ryann Ashley flew across the country from her college campus in Northwest Washington back to her home in Los Angeles, she felt like the world around her was falling…

D.C., Maryland, and Virginia all released executive orders this week that called for the closure of “nonessential businesses” in an attempt to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.

A District arborist parked his truck alongside a tidy row of goose cherry trees on a recent afternoon, logging their conditions into a tablet. They are in good health one year after planting, he…

"The messaging we have been getting is that we need to pursue testing through the commercial lab for our patients.”

A landmark $2 trillion stimulus package to offer the U.S. economic relief from the novel coronavirus pandemic is expected to pass the House on Friday, but it classifies D.C. as a territory instead of…

Broadway is dark. The West End is closed. Even the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace — that glorious piece of state theater — has been halted. As theaters darken across the globe, where can…

On a recent Sunday afternoon, I sat in my apartment in Northwest D.C. drinking coffee, when suddenly seven or eight loud cracks rang out. Shortly thereafter, the wail of sirens filled the air around…