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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's fiscal year 2021 budget plan would permanently ease some restrictions placed on alcohol retailers and manufacturers in an effort to provide additional income for those businesses affected by the Covid-19 pandemic…

Not much has given me a sense of routine lately. But once a week, I pour myself a glass of wine, brush up on the week’s news and then press “join meeting” on Zoom.

Is the demand for contactless payments during COVID-19 accelerating the hospitality industry’s march toward a cashless future?

During the coronavirus pandemic, people experiencing homelessness are being shuffled back and forth between shelters and hotels. Many do not want to return to communal living settings.

D.C.’s primary election day looks very different in 2020.

D.C. might get started Friday on lifting safety restrictions imposed as a reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the Smithsonian’s museums will remain closed for now.

When speaking about the Smithsonian’s plan to reopen its museums, Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III has told staff that they have to stop thinking of an on-off switch and instead consider the modulated approach of a dimmer switch.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s capital will begin a gradual reopening Friday, even as Mayor Muriel Bowser warns that it probably will result in more coronavirus infections.

LAST WEEK, THE UNION AT THE WASHINGTON POST signed a contract extension. With a pandemic raging and the president ranting and the boss, Jeff Bezos, on track to become a trillionaire, why should readers care about the union? Because it…

The usual summer plans of the District government’s offerings for young people have changed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, with recreation, employment and educational programs being conducted virtually.

The DC ReOpen Advisory Group recently made recommendations to the Bowser administration on how the District should come back from its dormant economic and social activity amid the coronavirus pandemic and those ideas were met with mixed…

Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed fiscal year 2021 budget falls short of adequately funding critical affordable housing and homelessness prevention programs, advocates said in statements and public testimony last week.

With winter now over, The Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness released its annual hypothermia debrief, detailing the demographics of those served at low-barrier and severe-weather shelters during the 2019–20…

Part of a May 9 virtual roundtable sponsored by the nonprofit Empower D.C. centered on the challenges of housing homeless people in D.C. with the added complications of the coronavirus.

Happy Wednesday. Mayor Muriel Bowser is lifting DC's stay-at-home order as of Friday in favor of what she called "stay-at-home lite" — Phase One of reopening, which includes a limited increase in retail and restaurant operations.