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DC's Office of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has published a report that looks at how residential developments that use Housing Production Trust Fund (HPTF) dollars have affected the tenure of low-income renters in DC.

For the first time since March 31, D.C. reported no new deaths from COVID-19, as well as a 13-day sustained decrease in community spread of the virus, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Tuesday.

Rock Creek Park has lured crowds of locals seeking an outdoor escape during the pandemic, but the city’s signature oasis — created as America’s fourth national park — was supposed to be the president’s backyard.

The tiny radio that Jose Mardoqueo Reyes owned as a boy during El Salvador’s civil war in the 1980s served as a lifeline to the outside world, where people still danced and played soccer without worrying about getting shot.

“As an industry that will probably be one of, if not the last to come back to real life, we need whatever we can get.”

Sheltering in place, a sourdough starter, and then something strange . . .

Another church redevelopment is on the boards in DC.

After Darrell Jones was rushed to the hospital in late April with shortness of breath and dizzy spells, his lifelong friend Cedric Hand didn’t think that much of it. Jones, 39, had struggled with chronic bronchitis in the past, Hand said,…

Inside crowded courtyard buildings, where blue-collar Latino families share apartments meant for one, the sick are multiplying.

Activists looking to increase space for pedestrians and bicyclists took matters into their own hands to block some D.C. streets to car traffic on Memorial Day.

Sheila Lucas raised a family of six as a single mother, on the salary of an assistant nurse. Then she adopted four more children. She was shot and wounded while sitting on a porch about three decades ago. Later, diabetes nearly took her…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said Monday that the city is “back on track” to move toward a gradual reopening after seeing a slight spike in new cases over the weekend. Meanwhile, Virginia reported a record number of new cases — mostly…

Events that would have been held at the RFK Campus starting June 8 — including at the stadium and D.C. Armory — have been postponed until further notice.

On Memorial Day, climate and street safety activists throughout DC closed multiple streets to cars to give pedestrians and bicyclists room to exercise while remaining physically distant.

It was a little after noon on a Thursday in May when a gunman fatally shot Lowell Tolliver and wounded another man in the breezeway of a D.C. apartment complex. As people rushed to help the victims, another person was shot a block away.

The Washington region is just weeks from having enough testing equipment, laboratory capacity and contact tracers to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, assuming the public cooperates, officials said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The back door clicked shut behind him and he faced the brick walls of the alley. Roberto, one of tens of millions of newly laid off U.S. workers desperate to make ends meet in the pandemic, struggled with his emotions,…

A new spike in recently-reported cases of the coronavirus has prompted the District’s top health official to adjust one aspect of the city’s timeline for reopening.

Gerald, a childhood friend from Washington, D.C., is serving a life sentence at the United States Penitentiary in Atwater, a prison 15 miles from my home in Merced, California.