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Happy Wednesday. A DC Superior Court judge has said the city's ban on landlords filing new eviction cases is unconstitutional, throwing a wrench in the pandemic relief measure.

After months of teetering between unemployment and work, Reyes Ramos realized he needed to go back to school.

The District shut five school buildings this week after multiple children and staff members tested positive for the coronavirus, though officials say they have so far seen no evidence of spread in the city’s school buildings.

Some restaurants are keeping their outdoor spaces open tonight.

As economic pressure tightens on both renters and landlords in the coronavirus pandemic’s ninth month, a court ruling Wednesday struck down a key provision in the District’s plan to keep renters safe from eviction.

A judge in D.C. Superior Court ruled Wednesday that the District’s ban on new eviction filings during the pandemic is unconstitutional. While the decision does not allow actual evictions to take place, it does pave the way for landlords to…

The Michael A. Stoops Anti-Discrimination Amendment Act, named after the homelessness advocate and board member of Street Sense who died in 2017, stalled out in the D.C. Council for the second time as the last legislative meeting of the…

With the first COVID-19 vaccinations underway, the District’s homeless community is near the top of the list of people to get the vaccine, according to a draft plan published by the D.C. government in late November.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday, Dec. 15, voted unanimously to give final approval of a bill that bans the use of the so-called gay and transgender panic defense in criminal trials.

As more community-based organizations and mutual aid networks pop up across D.C, one group continues the struggle for housing justice they began two years ago.

On the evening before the first possible snowstorm of winter 2020, Pat Collins was clear-eyed about the likelihood that he would be deploying his most famous journalistic accessory.

Five of the 110 staff members who will be vaccinated this week at Children’s National Hospital received the first of two shots on Wednesday.

The move means Metro is suspending routes with hilly terrain.

The District’s eviction moratorium, designed to last through the duration of the coronavirus pandemic, now looks to be in jeopardy.

D.C. lawmakers have quietly advanced a plan to break up one of the city’s largest agencies, the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, lining up a massive shift in everything from housing and construction inspections to business…

When D.C. law firm Williams & Connolly LLP moves into its new headquarters at The Wharf in 2022, it will be anchoring a pair of stunning buildings on Maine Avenue Southwest.

Maryland has agreed to provide D.C. with an additional 8,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses, according to a Maryland Health Department letter addressed to DC Health and initially reported by the Washington City Paper.

If you had to identify clusters of coronavirus cases without testing people, what would you look at? Discarded face masks? Air particles? The walls of outdoor restaurant bubbles?