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Happy Monday. As part of DC's preparations for a projected surge in COVID-19 infections later this month, Mayor Muriel Bowser today unveiled the 437-bed "alternative care site" in Hall A of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

Flor Morales’ two-year-old son doesn’t understand that his grandmother has died. She has tried to explain it to him the best way she knows how, but the boy continues to pound his little fist on the door to the basement unit, where his nana…

The D.C. government has quietly cut the funding for its street mural program, marking another financial hit for local artists who rely on government grants for income.

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the time finally came, they laid Joanne Paylor to rest the finest way they could during a pandemic. A church service was out. The viewing had to be socially distanced. Golden chairs for the outdoor memorial service…

An office building one block from Union Station that counts US Citizenship and Immigration Services among its tenants is on the way to gaining a couple of stories and a rooftop venue.

A new 443-bed field hospital in the Washington Convention Center is ready to start taking COVID-19 patients if the city’s hospitals become overwhelmed with cases.

Metro expects to increase rail service only slightly during the next four months and will close a number of stations during the summer for maintenance, according to a three-part Covid-19 recovery plan released Monday by the Washington…

The Washington Convention Center has become an alternate care site, if needed, as part of D.C.’s coronavirus response plan, Mayor Muriel Bowser said during a news conference Monday.

Which Ward 2 candidate dumped his household trash in a public can?

The team behind it wants to put more money in the pockets of restaurants and delivery drivers.

Some moms who have children in the hospital this Mother’s Day got a special breakfast and celebration from a local organization looking to make their stay a little easier.

Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld said in an op-ed that the D.C.-area’s transportation system will open in three planned phases that may take as long as two months to implement.

Washington-area hospitals are now ready to safely handle an expected surge of covid-19 patients, provided that the region avoids moving too quickly to relax restrictions that have slowed the disease’s spread, hospital executives and public…

Metro’s coronavirus recovery plan doesn’t anticipate a return to pre-pandemic levels of service until next spring. Instead, the transit agency plans to slowly ramp up service and will ask the region’s employers to limit daily commuters by…