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An analysis by doctors at Children’s National Hospital in Washington calls into question the commonly held — and comforting — assumption that children seem to escape the novel coronavirus’s more serious impacts.

Protecting America’s front yard hasn’t always been easy. To shield the National Mall from damage caused by its 30 million visitors a year, the National Park Service invested $40 million to replace the grass with sustainable turf in 2016.…

A federal judge has ordered St. Elizabeths Hospital to isolate patients exposed to the coronavirus after several deaths in the facility.

Long before the D.C. Public Schools’ (DCPS) central office relinquished $14 million in Head Start grant funds, some parents said they saw the proof in the pudding during what they described as the central office’s attempts to keep them…

African Americans are dying from COVID-19 at rates well above non-Hispanic white residents. In the District, despite being less than 47 percent of the city’s population, over 75 percent of the residents who have died due to complications…

Biko Sheridan, 11, a fifth grade student at Mundo Verde Public Charter School in Northwest, won the 38th Annual Washington Informer Spelling Bee — besting 30 competitors from other District schools to emerge as the youngest person in the…

Children’s National Hospital asked employees to take one week off between April 5 and June 13 because of financial losses that have resulted from the response to the coronavirus pandemic, a spokeswoman said Friday.

For Kevin Hollins, a catering driver at Howard University, there’s one surprising upside of school being closed for the coronavirus: “I actually developed a green thumb.”

The novel coronavirus crisis has launched Washington, D.C., into the most critical period of its short experience with elected government. If ever there was a call for well-grounded, smart leadership, it’s now. Election year 2020 will play…

At least 11 contractors working on a top-to-bottom renovation of the Cannon House Office Building have tested positive for COVID-19, forcing them and other construction workers on the project to go into quarantine.

Georgetown’s annual French Market, an open-air market staged each year between P Street and Reservoir Road on Wisconsin Avenue in the Book Hill corridor of D.C., will instead be a virtual event this year.

TGIF. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the DC Council will need to cut $721.8M from the current budget with just five months left in the fiscal year to offset revenue losses from a partially shuttered economy, according to the District’s chief…

It could be two years before D.C. recovers from most of the economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a newly released budget forecast by D.C. Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey DeWitt.

Most restaurants and bars aren't in a position to rehire their employees at the level the program requires.

Hours before the first families arrive to pick up the day’s breakfast and lunch from Kelly Miller Middle School, four cafeteria workers bustle in the kitchen.

Mallory Shelter, a jewelry designer and owner of Union Market District shop Shelter, says that in February, her store doubled its business from the year before. But by mid-March, it was temporarily closed due to coronavirus concerns

The Bureau of Prisons could send those without homes to alternative halfway houses far from D.C. or back to prison at the end of the month.