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“We are closed for the virus. Thank you for your understanding. God bless you. Thanks.”

Other cities are closing roads and creating pop-up bike lanes to provide space for exercise

The worker says cases have been popping up at the location since mid-March, the store has not been shut down for a deep cleaning and shoppers are not being told.

Haimonot is an Ethiopian refugee, and her passion is cooking.

Rapid testing for the coronavirus is trickling into the D.C. region as public health departments and some hospitals and clinics get machines that issue results in minutes. Still, testing supplies and machinery are limited, leaving lab…

Request comes after federal transit officials released coronavirus prevention guidelines

If you are a D.C. government employee and have to physically report to work during the coronavirus public health emergency, you may find something extra in your check.

A New York real estate firm acquired a Downtown D.C. office building this week in a deal the broker said was made more difficult by the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing economic crisis.

D.C.’s seven medical marijuana dispensaries can now deliver to patients and offer curbside and at-the-door pickup, according to an emergency rule from the D.C. Department of Health that went into effect today.

Four patients at St. Elizabeths public psychiatric hospital have died from complications of COVID-19, the city announced on Monday. The patients were an 81-year-old woman, a 77-year-old man, a 59-year-old man, and an 87-year-old man, city…

Last month we asked whether DC will be able to meet the financial challenges the Coronavirus scourge will cost the District, specifically major loss of tax revenues.

Good Tuesday afternoon. President Donald Trump yesterday claimed Mayor Muriel Bowser was "very happy" with the federal government's coronavirus assistance for DC, despite that obviously not being the case. The city received $750 million…

In a little-noticed development, the D.C. government has joined the Trump administration in prohibiting legal sexually oriented businesses such as nude dance clubs and adult video stores from receiving disaster relief loans and special…

Deon Crowell’s attorneys say missing body camera evidence delayed his trial and may have cost him his life.

Employees of the Federal Bureau of Prisons are meeting with people incarcerated at the Hope Village halfway house on Tuesday to discuss where they will go, now that the company that runs the facility has decided to cease operations.

As some local businesses shutter their doors, struggling to predict what the future holds amid a pandemic, Call Your Mother, the self-described “Jew-ish” deli that’s risen to bagelry-stardom, will open its second location in Capitol Hill…

As if people’s nerves weren’t already frayed from living through a pandemic, some District denizens heard what they described on Twitter as a booming “explosion” in the area of Columbia Heights late Monday night.

The National Park Service has approved DC Water’s proposal to move forward with construction of the Potomac River Tunnel project following an environmental assessment, the agency announced Tuesday.

Big D.C. bar and events space Hook Hall has been paying restaurants to prepare meals for distribution to hospitality workers in need, and the nonprofit fund helping pay for those meals has received a $100,000 grant from the Rockefeller…