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Less than a week after being awarded a $25 million grant as part of the federal government’s $2.2 trillion stimulus package, the Kennedy Center is bracing for more layoffs. On Tuesday, the arts center announced that it will furlough 250…

When the District of Columbia’s city councilors handed 36-year-old Mayor Adrian Fenty control of the city’s public schools in 2007, they were hoping for salvation. Or maybe just absolution.

Eight-year-old Washingtonian Akira Inoue’s favorite thing about playing baseball is getting to stand on the pitcher’s mound. Inoue plays in the Senators Satchel Paige Little League‘s “Rookie” division, which uses a pitching machine and…

Restaurants across the country have shifted to takeout or delivery only, limited their operating hours, and cut workers’ pay — among other things — to slow the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. But at the same time, many are…

As the coronavirus outbreak took hold of the D.C. area two weeks ago, a group of local activists immediately leaped into action, creating a mutual aid network ward-by-ward to help vulnerable neighbors get access to food, supplies, and…

Perhaps the best use of a listserv yet.

Good Tuesday afternoon. Mayor Muriel Bowser's stay-at-home order goes into effect tonight as the clock strikes midnight. It remains in effect through April 24, though Bowser noted today that it's likely the city will need to extend the…

Commercial real estate owners, including the president, are likely to receive tax benefits from stimulus package as sales stagnate

A judge has ruled in favor of MidCity in one of the two lawsuits over its planned 1,700-unit redevelopment of Northeast D.C.'s Brookland Manor community.

Rent is due Wednesday for thousands of tenants across the District, even as many businesses have shuttered due to the novel coronavirus. More than 36,000 people have already filed for unemployment in D.C., with similar surges in Maryland…

As D.C. residents have hunkered down in their homes in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus, daily life as most locals know it has come to a halt.

Layoffs related to the novel coronavirus pandemic have reached the Four Seasons Hotel Washington D.C. The hotel filed a layoff notice with the District that affects 413 employees, according to D.C. records.

The first 11 days of March were pretty normal for Takoma Wellness Center.

The essential business of development continues as the owners of Tenleytown's Dancing Crab filed for raze permits this week.

Summer could bring an entirely new reality for Metro, as the region continues to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic.

A new lawsuit claims the District of Columbia is failing to take basic public health steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in its jails, despite five inmates testing positive for the coronavirus.

The American Civil Liberties Union of DC and the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia are suing the D.C. Department of Corrections (DOC) on behalf of the more than 1,600 people incarcerated in D.C.’s jails.

Sports betting in the District, already troubled by long delays and lost revenues, has hit a new and costly snag.