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If you were in D.C. and near your smartphone or someone else’s around 8 p.m. Wednesday, you probably heard loud blaring and buzzing coming from the device.

"If they buy food, they can’t pay rent. If they pay rent, they can’t buy food. It’s a complicated situation."

For more than two decades, the District has prided itself on its balanced budgets, with its surplus nearing $1.5 billion dollars.

A comprehensive list of which D.C. service providers are remaining open during the COVID-19 outbreak was published on Sunday by the Arlington-based nonprofit behind the District’s text-message alert…

New guidelines aim to release detained parolees from DC Jail.

The 20-year-old male is being monitored in the infirmary.

And they're seeing increased engagement.

Until a few weeks ago, D.C.-based entrepreneur Mark Sussman was gearing up for the public launch of OurStreets, an app that allows users to report dangerous driving behavior and badly parked e-bikes…

"We are doing all we can so that residents don't get lonely or anxious.”

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will get $25 million as part of the $2.2 trillion bill to provide relief to millions of Americans, businesses, health care systems and others impacted by…

The District has followed Montgomery County, Maryland, in setting up curbside pickup zones near restaurants to make it easier for customers to get their food and beverages to go.

The D.C. Department of Health confirmed Wednesday the District’s third death from the novel coronavirus.

D.C. officials are crying foul over a provision of the Senate’s $2 trillion recovery bill that gives each of the 50 states at least $1.25 billion in direct aid while providing D.C. with less than…

The $2 trillion federal coronavirus relief bill could shortchange the District by an estimated $750 million by treating the nation’s capital as a U.S. territory, even though Washington has more…

Rocks were hurled through windows at Busboys and Poets as well as Turning Natural juice bar in Anacostia, and the culprits grabbed the cash registers. The incidents were, in the words of one owner,…

The District plans to open six emergency child-care facilities Thursday to serve the children of health-care workers during the coronavirus crisis, city officials said.

Men at Hope Village, a 300-bed halfway house in southeast D.C., say concerns over coronavirus have left them locked inside the facility without access to essential supplies and toiletries.

“As a society, we must do everything we can to reduce the transmission of the virus. Jails and prisons are super high-risk breeding grounds.”

TheatreWashington plans to distribute $500 grants to actors and theatermakers, and it hopes to double the amount of its emergency fund.

The lights are out at businesses across the region as a result of COVID-19 restrictions, but the percolators are still going at a handful of coffee shops.