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Cassandra Poggi gets anxious in small spaces. She feels trapped when she’s told where she can or cannot go.

It’s a tense ritual that unfolds in the nation’s capital every year. About 25,000 families apply to secure a slot at public schools through the competitive school lottery system. Then, they wait for…

“This is a public service announcement. Please practice social distancing.”

Travel and tourism is an integral part of the Washington, D.C., economy.

As the shortage of protective gear worsens at hospitals across the county and in the D.C. region, some health care workers are having to choose between the health of their families and the health of…

The D.C. jail has quarantined 36 inmates officials think may have come into contact with a 20-year-old male inmate who tested positive for the novel coronavirus late Wednesday, jail officials said.

It might be challenging enough being a seriously sick kid stuck in the hospital long term.

Distance learning may have emptied out college classrooms around the region to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, but that hasn’t stopped medical students from finding other ways to help.

D.C. Council member Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) asked the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Thursday to provide residents of Hope Village, the city’s only halfway house for men, with essential supplies and…

Rep. Matt Gaetz questioned emergency funding being directed to Howard University, suggesting that the allocation does not belong in a $2 trillion relief bill designed to blunt the novel coronavirus…

The D.C. police department has largely recovered from a surge of retirements a few years ago that reduced the size of the force to levels that officials at the time said were becoming dangerously…

The spread of the coronavirus has ground the D.C.-area economy to a halt in recent weeks, but even before the region's first positive case was confirmed, developers were already hitting the brakes on…

The number of people in the Washington region filing for unemployment benefits spiked more than 1,000% in a single week in mid-March, paralleling a national trend brought on by the spreading…

This year marks Diana Mayhew's 20th year running the National Cherry Blossom Festival, and it's been a doozy.

The ground-floor retail space in an Adams Morgan building has just traded hands despite one of its tenants being forced to close over the coronavirus.

The moment he stepped out of that tiny confining space every morning used to be the moment that changed everything.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Thursday that the coronavirus relief package expected to pass the House of Representatives on Friday deliberately classified the District as a territory instead of a state,…

A Florida congressman has been criticized by other lawmakers for complaining about Howard University receiving $13 million in funding in the $2 trillion federal relief bill—the historically black…

The National Capital Planning Commission is scheduled next week to review preliminary site development plans for the 11th Street Bridge Park, the long-planned repurposing of the former local 11th…

There are a few new looks for DC's planned 11th Street Park.