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The District’s public school system will close Monday so staff members can plan how they will continue teaching if the coronavirus forces schools to shut down for an extended period.

The D.C. Health Department is calling for the cancellation or postponement of “non-essential mass gatherings, including conferences and conventions,” where 1,000 or more people congregate in one…

They stand on the wrong side of escalators. Their buses take up valuable street space. Some of them even swan around in MAGA hats! Yes, student tour groups often break the unwritten rules of DC-area…

The peak bloom date for the cherry blossoms at the Tidal Basin has been moved to a new range: March 21-24. That’s about a week earlier than the original peak bloom projection.

The head priest of a historic Georgetown church said Tuesday his condition is improving after he became D.C.’s first resident to test positive for the new coronavirus.

Staff at a Bethesda theater are learning how to disinfect cloth theater seats. A D.C. contemporary dance company just cancelled its annual fundraising gala. And a choral group in the city now allows…

As the number of COVID-19 cases in Maryland, Virginia and the District continued to mount, government officials, employers, schools — and even the storied Gridiron Club — were ducking and covering…

It’s endangered but not extinct, as organizers have found a creative way to preserve it.

Mercy Me is slated to debut in West End in April.

Plenty of drivers have complained about getting speeding tickets in D.C., but two are taking it a step further: they’re suing.

The longtime friends were looking forward to their regular game of bridge at Washington’s posh Metropolitan Club on Monday afternoon, a bit of welcome routine in a world slowly spinning out of…

A Penn Quarter sports bar that is the first drinking establishment to offer “games of skill” for profit in the District has been operating illegally for the last eight years, according to court…

The District has won a long-running lawsuit against an outdoor advertising company that hoped to install dozens of digital signs throughout the city.

American University will suspend classes on its D.C. campus until at least the beginning of April, joining a growing number of colleges and universities across the country working to contain the…

The National Gallery of Art has postponed its much-anticipated exhibition “A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600–1750” because of the global coronavirus crisis.

With a hot meal in their stomachs, the men gathered for nightly chapel service, where the Rev. Ron Stanley told them about the homeless shelter rules — and the coronavirus.

American University will temporarily move its classes online in response to the growing outbreak of the novel coronavirus, becoming the first college or university in Greater Washington to take such…

The arrangement is in response to the coronavirus crisis.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no, it’s…a man galloping on a horse in the middle of the nation’s capital?!

The District’s Georgetown Day School said it would close Tuesday for a deep cleaning because it has “community members who are closely affiliated” with Christ Church of Georgetown, which reported a…