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This afternoon, the DC Council unanimously passed a broad piece of emergency legislation to soften the blow of the coronavirus pandemic on the city's residents and businesses.

The chef and World Central Kitchen help feed families during the coronavirus crisis.

Sweeping rounds of layoffs have started to hit D.C.-area businesses in a wide range of sectors. The economic plunge has been widely felt, hitting the wedding industry, food and hospitality services, arts organizations, wellness companies,…

While many small business owners across the D.C. region are seeing their profits flatline, the owners of small food markets and grocery store chains are experiencing a boom in business.

Hook Hall in Park View is now a pickup point for care packages and meals

The coronavirus has already cost the District of Columbia more than $60 million in lost revenue.

A proposed development could bring 900 units and a food hall to a nearly three-acre site on the northern banks of the Anacostia River.

Grace Singletary has 20 to 25 dogs to walk in Mount Pleasant on a typical weekday. Last Friday, there were 10.

Ed Lazere, the longtime head of an active, left-leaning local think tank, is seeking a citywide D.C. Council seat in the general election this year, he announced Tuesday. Lazere joins a significantly crowded field in the race to replace…

Ed Lazere, the leader of a left-leaning D.C. think tank, announced Tuesday that he would run for an at-large seat on the D.C. Council in November, two years after he unsuccessfully challenged Chairman Phil Mendelson (D).

About a year ago, Begashaw Deneke opened his first restaurant: Shebelle Ethiopian Restaurant in D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood, a narrow eatery in an old rowhouse near U St., Northwest. It’s taken a while to build up business, but things were…

Brittney Roberson, a manager at Jack Rose Dining Saloon, was also the bartender and server Monday night.

The Office of Lottery and Gaming said it will release its citywide mobile sports betting app and website “by the end of the month.”

After a former Catholic priest from Northern Virginia was accused of sexual abuse that occurred in the 1980s, and his arrest was announced Monday, D.C. Council member David Grosso (I-At Large) revealed that he was the victim. Grosso said…

A student living on campus at American University and a guest who attended a Howard University-sponsored event with about 1,200 other people have tested positive for covid-19, officials announced Monday.

An emergency room doctor at United Medical Center has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, a senior city official said Monday, the first known infection at the District’s public hospital in Southeast Washington.

Washington’s famous cherry blossoms are opening and peak bloom is expected by the weekend, maybe sooner. This is likely to be among the top 10, if not top 5, earliest peak blooms on record thanks to an exceptionally mild late winter and…

The D.C. Council will discuss emergency legislation Tuesday that proposes some relief.