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Staff shortages prevent the D.C. jail from keeping inmates six feet apart to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, with one guard monitoring up to 45 prisoners, court-appointed inspectors told a U.S. judge Wednesday.

A former counselor at a D.C. nonprofit group that helps neglected and homeless youths has been charged with sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl at its shelter in Northeast Washington, according to police and court documents.

The Trump International Hotel in downtown D.C. has filed a layoff notice affecting 237 employees.

A member of the nursing staff at St. Elizabeths Hospital began coughing on March 20. He thought it was his chronic bronchitis flaring up, so he took his medication and took off work to recover. Over the next two days, his health…

The pandemic has pared life down to bare necessities, forcing us to close our doors

As an avid NPR listener, Emilie Fairbanks was excited to see This American Life host Ira Glass give a talk at the Kennedy Center this month. But with coronavirus concerns forcing many D.C. venues and arts organizations to shut down, the…

“More than one dozen workers” at Whole Foods Market’s P Street, Northwest, store “have #coronavirus,” WUSA journalist Michael Quander reported on Twitter Wednesday morning. The tweet thread, now deleted, linked to WUSA’s digital story…

Good Wednesday afternoon. May 15 is the new April 24. Mayor Muriel Bowser today announced a three-week extension of the District's stay-at-home order and associated closings as coronavirus cases and deaths continue to rise.

New designs are emerging for JBG SMITH's massive development plans at Gallaudet University nearly four years after the project received zoning approval, and a year following dismissal of an appeal.

Libby Wetterer was used to the lifestyle of a busy medical student. In her fourth year at Georgetown Medical School, Wetterer was rotating at the ICU at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital — that is, until the coronavirus began to…

A global pandemic and economic crisis is not slowing down the Parks at Walter Reed development team, which is planning to begin construction on a new mixed-use building next month.

The District’s public school system will lay off dozens of employees and make other cuts to its preschool program for low-income families, officials said Wednesday, after failing to meet federal safety standards and giving up millions of…

A Southeast D.C. affordable housing community, which has been the center of a lawsuit from the D.C. government and a rent strike from its tenants, has come under new ownership.

Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that the District is extending its state of emergency order until at least May 15. The extension is needed to continue to “flatten the curve” and reduce the number of confirmed cases in D.C., Bowser said at a…

A District government agency last week removed hundreds of campaign signs showing support for an upstart political candidate who’s challenging a well-funded D.C. councilmember in the June Democratic primary. The agency now says the mass…

Shared moped company Revel, which received District Department of Transportation approval to roll out a fleet of mopeds in D.C. last fall, is making mopeds available for free to D.C. restaurants to use for food delivery.

While stay-at-home orders have restricted or effectively curtailed most outdoor activities, D.C. resident beekeeper Bob Albright can rest assured the coronavirus crackdown won’t put a stop to his work: It’s been deemed essential.

When Taylar Nuevelle went to the women’s emergency shelter at King Greenleaf Recreation Center on April 7 to drop off a cellphone for a client, what she saw was “heartbreaking.”