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As states start to reopen their economies, Metro has crafted its plan to slowly ramp service back up — but don’t expect pre-pandemic levels of service until sometime in early 2021.

Students at Coolidge High School, many of them recent immigrants, aren’t logging into English class because they now have day jobs in restaurants and landscaping.

After waking up on a recent Monday, Ron Dudley pulled on his Washington Nationals jersey and walked down his street, past a bus stop where he had slept one night, and stopped in front of Trader Joe’s for the first time in three weeks.

For one local DJ, the coronavirus outbreak has completely changed his performances. He’s finding new ways to connect with and entertain his fans, while also helping others in the field trying to navigate mixing music at home.

Metro ridership has plummeted to historic lows and that’s a good thing — for now. Customers are making only essential trips to protect the health of everyone in the region. Planning for recovery from the covid-19 shutdown isn’t like…

On the morning of his graduation from American University, Yazan Hanouneh woke up inside his parents’ home in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. He dressed in jeans and a button up shirt before slipping into his blue graduation cap and gown.

When the music kicked in and the first lines of Howard University’s alma mater began — “Reared against the eastern sky / Proudly there on the hilltop high” — she was on her feet singing along.

Even as Maryland and Virginia start moving toward a limited reopening this month, the two states and the District added 2,106 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday—among the biggest daily increases in the number of infections so far.

The Washington Post is known as the paper that brought down a president. Nicky’s News was the paper that brought giraffes back to Washington.

Europe Day usually brings lines and crowds to D.C. as the European embassies open their doors to the public. This year, their doors are closed but the visits are continuing online.

D.C.’s stay at home order during the coronavirus pandemic has left fewer people on the roads and walking down the streets and area wildlife is taking advantage of the extra space.

Some restaurants are temporarily closing and requiring employee testing, but government guidelines are absent.

District officials in late March announced the first count of coronavirus cases among the city’s homeless, saying five had tested positive in shelters and 49 were in quarantine at hotels.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Friday shared details of his plan to slowly loosen shutdown restrictions at the end of next week, while leaders in the District and suburban Maryland said they were not ready to consider reopening as…

Christine Butts finally got her money.

TGIF. DC yesterday matched its highest daily number of deaths linked to COVID-19, equaling the 19 deaths reported on April 30. The spread of the coronavirus is not flatlining yet, as the city this morning reported 245 new confirmed cases,…

Yet another victim of the coronavirus pandemic is a program that brightens D.C. streets.

The effort to redevelop Petworth’s Hebrew Home for the Aged just cleared a major hurdle, following years of stops and starts on the project.

D.C. is suing Monsanto Co. and two affiliated companies, alleging they knowingly manufactured, promoted and sold toxic chemicals that polluted the Potomac River and its tributaries.

Daryl Blackeney has lived in the skilled nursing facility at United Medical Center for three years and seven months. That’s all about to change in the next week, as D.C.’s public hospital — and the only one east of the Anacostia River —…