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Good Monday afternoon. As the DC Council finishes drafting a supplemental COVID-19 response bill, officials are providing new detail on the scope of the city’s budget crunch due to the economic fallout from the coronavirus.

As D.C.’s streets empty and residents take on extra precautions amid the spread of the coronavirus, the crew of one ambulance decided to ratchet up the apocalyptic atmosphere.

The D.C. Council is set to vote Tuesday on a major coronavirus relief package that extends Mayor Muriel Bowser’s authority to declare a health emergency through mid-June and imposes a citywide rent freeze, among other measures.

Two people finishing prison sentences at the Hope Village halfway house in Southeast D.C. died over the weekend. The deaths are not related to the coronavirus, a spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) says.

Busboys and Poets owner Andy Shallal is personally paying artists to create murals around town

Excluded from government aid, these restaurant workers are turning to their faith and family.

Father Stephen Planning had tested positive for the virus in mid-March.

Hospitals and local governments in the D.C. region are hunting for scarce medical supplies to protect healthcare workers from contagion as they treat COVID-19 patients. Local doctors and nurses say they’re already feeling the effects of…

Buying a home in a city generally costs more and gets less than the suburbs, and that holds true for D.C.

Zenia Laws and her husband, Hassan, bought a cozy 500-square-foot condo in D.C’s Columbia Heights neighborhood about two and half years ago. Life in their tiny space has been great, she says. But last month, the couple decided to buy a…

Alicia Bautista, a hotel housekeeper, is worried being laid off means she’ll lose the Silver Spring townhouse she bought in February after saving for nine years.

They say all the world is a stage, but what happens when the world closes the stage?

Two people died inside the Hope Village halfway house in Southeast Washington in just three days.

The novel coronavirus and the resulting quarantine have revealed just how much deference we give to the automobile (or to be precise, parked automobiles) in Washington, D.C., to the detriment of nearly every single form of transportation —…

Well-known D.C. chef Geoff Tracy has come up with an idea to support his employees and help the community while keeping the kitchens going at Chef Geoff’s in Northwest D.C. and Lia’s in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

The D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs closed the fish market at the Wharf Saturday night after crowds of people were there this weekend not social distancing.