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Affordable senior housing is in the works across the street from Skyland Town Center.

Despite a pandemic, love remains in the air. As the region continues to attempt to flatten the curve, local jurisdictions are turning to innovative, socially distant ways to process marriage licenses and even perform wedding ceremonies.

The Georgetown Business Improvement District’s Employee Emergency Relief Grant program has partnered with Georgetown nonprofit Halcyon to replenish the grant program’s funds.

She worked at St. Elizabeths Hospital for more than 40 years, White wrote on social media.

The District’s annual DC Bike Ride, originally scheduled for May 15 but sidelined during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been rescheduled for this fall.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Friday the District will convert 473,000 square feet of space at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center into a roughly 1,200-bed field hospital for COVID-19 patients.

Soapbox started mass-producing hand sanitizer. Now it's in hiring mode, and shipping millions of products.

For two weeks, Laura Peterson waited for the Watergate East apartments to cancel an April 1 meeting for residents. But even as a pandemic swept through the capital and the death toll climbed, her 240-unit co-op did not yield.

Despite protests in Annapolis and Richmond against executive stay-at-home orders, business and labor leaders in the Washington region are adamant that scientists and public health experts should have the biggest say in deciding when and…

While many people are staying home to flatten the curve, D.C.’s nurses are on the front-line of battle as they care for patients with the deadly coronavirus.

Nacole Thrower was running late, and her 3-year-old son was still snuggled in his sheets, his limbs sticking to the mattress.

A federal judge on Sunday ordered the D.C. jail to immediately overhaul health, sanitation and social distancing measures for 1,400 prisoners in the nation’s capital to combat climbing infection rates of the novel coronavirus, while…

Several agencies exist to enforce rules against public corruption in D.C. government, but the results — and we’re being charitable here — have been mixed. The office that is supposed to enforce campaign finance laws lacks any real…

A judge has ruled in favor of some D.C. inmates who filed a lawsuit seeking early release and increased cleaning of facilities in light of an increase of coronavirus cases.

More than 80 inmates have tested positive for coronavirus and one inmate has died

"We're just sort of humming along going towards the spring, which is the busiest season," says Chef Geoff Tracy. "We're thinking about hiring, we're thinking about maybe opening a new restaurant. And then all of a sudden, hit the cliff."

The lone bagpiper, dressed in blue jeans, a flannel shirt and a baseball cap, stood beneath a flagpole in front of a hospital. He played “God Bless America.”

The nocturnal images are poignant and moving. Here's how to see them.