Government Shutdown

During Restaurant Week, restaurants in the Washington region offer steep discounts on meals to attract customers during the winter slump. The promotion usually lasts — you guessed it — a week, and this year’s was supposed to end this past…

Allison McGill says it is as much about morale as it is about need. The Hill resident is organizing free carry-out meals for workers affected by the federal shutdown, to be distributed Jan. 24th. Federal employees and contractors are…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is urging the Trump administration to reconsider its refusal to make unemployment insurance available to federal workers who are still on the job amid the shutdown, yet missed their last paycheck and could miss…

Established in 1839, the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church has stood as a spiritual beacon in the nation’s capital for nearly two centuries. On the eve of his first inauguration, ladies and gentlemen dressed in fur and wool waited in a long…

Stories abound of citizens pitching in to pick up trash on federal land while government workers are furloughed have made headlines. But hundreds of volunteers are being turned away: people with regular volunteer gigs are being told to stay…

In Washington, the Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens had to cancel its Martin Luther King Jr. “Day of Service” on Saturday because the partial government shutdown has the gates locked at the national park along the Anacostia River.

The partial federal government shutdown is losing Metro 16 percent in average weekday rail ridership and 8 percent in average weekday bus ridership, per a “preliminary analysis” of the shutdown’s impacts on Metro that the transit agency…

Metro is bleeding money as the longest federal government shutdown in history rolls on, $400,000 on the average weekday and it will only get worse, the transit agency told Virginia and Maryland’s U.S. Senate delegation Thursday.

(CNN)The Department of Labor on Thursday denied a request from Washington's mayor to make more federal employees who are working without pay eligible to collect unemployment benefits, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday.

On a regular day at lunchtime, the streets around Gallery Place are crammed with tourists and office workers. But these are the days of the shutdown, and things are far from normal.

The loss of federal workers is cutting into ridership, and the agency could be forced to scale back service, or ask local jurisdictions for more money.

Northeast D.C. brewing company Atlas Brew Works is asking a federal judge to allow it to sell “The Precious One,” a cheekily-named, apricot-infused IPA that the brewer has been rendered partially unable to sell thanks to the federal…

The food court in the guts of Union Station is a popular destination for commuters, Hill staffers, and tour groups given its ample, cafeteria-style seating and affordable meals from fast food chains. Like much of D.C.’s economy, the…

Now the partial government shutdown is affecting the country’s craft beer supply.

WASHINGTON — Some DC area restaurants are feeling the trickle down effect of the government shutdown.

Atlas Brew Works still has a tank full of beer it can’t sell in kegs, thanks to the federal shutdown that has shuttered the agency that approves its labels. Now, the Ivy City brewery has filed a suit against the acting U.S. attorney…

José Andrés, chef, restaurateur and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, will focus his humanitarian efforts on his hometown this week, when his nonprofit organization launches a relief kitchen to feed furloughed federal workers in Washington.

As the shutdown stretches into its third week, the Nobel Prize-nominated chef is going beyond free sandwiches.