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Alexandria officials have begun placing long-awaited projects such as a new Waterfront Park on hold. The D.C. government has frozen hiring and will forgo salary increases. And in Montgomery County, a proposal for a supplemental property…

If there weren’t a deadly virus making the rounds, the Washington Nationals would have been wrapping up a home series with the Miami Marlins on Wednesday, with a World Series banner flapping in the breeze somewhere in the outfield…

If you could have peeked into a building on Gallaudet University’s campus on a recent day, you would have seen a 6-foot-3 man crawling on the floor.

The next 30 days could show if the District will be in the next wave of hot spots or if social distancing measures have been effective at “flattening the curve”

With D.C. residents under stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic, access to nature feels tenuous for many, even as spring marches forward. But there’s at least one socially distant solution: backyard birding, though backyards…

A D.C. police sergeant on the force for more three decades fell ill while leaving work Wednesday and died later at a hospital, the second veteran member of the department to die in the past three days.

An employee who tested positive for COVID-19 was last in the store on April 5.

Safeway is following Giant Food’s decision to now limit the number of customers in its grocery stores at any given time.

Good Wednesday afternoon. The number of new confirmed coronavirus cases this morning doubled from yesterday, as the city said 229 more people were sick and officials warned the District could became a new hotspot.

Pretty much every DC distillery (plus at least one coffee roastery) has expanded its lineup from gin, whiskey, and rum to hand-sanitizer amid nationwide shortages.

The national coronavirus outbreak is hammering the U.S. economy, and the District of Columbia is no exception. Businesses across the city are shuttered as a social-distancing mandate keeps many Washingtonians in their homes, triggering an…

The coronavirus pandemic has been a dramatic shock to untold numbers of people across the Washington region, many of whom have seen their jobs disappear or are facing cutbacks in the hours that they work. And in an area as costly as ours,…

More than twice as many black residents of the District have tested positive for COVID-19 than white residents so far, new data released by the city show. Additionally, black residents make up more than half of the COVID-19 deaths in the…

Big checks are coming. So are scams and price-gouging. Local officials plan to crack down.