Government Shutdown

World Central Kitchen will provide meals during the shutdown, similar to areas hit by natural disasters.

José Andrés is as famous for his high-profile D.C. restaurants as for his efforts to serve meals to communities affected by disasters. With hundreds of thousands of people going without a paycheck in the D.C. region, those two worlds are…

The federal government shutdown is having one collateral effect—it’s blowing a hole in the District’s latest effort to promote statehood for itself.

The Rachel Whiteread sculpture show at the National Gallery of Art ended its four-month run this weekend, but because of the partial government shutdown, no one had been able to see the major survey since Jan. 2.

Get free food, apply for utility assistance, help your struggling neighbors, exercise, clean your closets, volunteer, shout your anger into a phone.

WASHINGTON — Couples are again able to get married in the District.

It’s official: some 800,000 federal workers missed their first paycheck on Friday. Federal contractors haven’t been paid since the partial government shutdown began three weeks ago. But their bills continue unabated.

Metro officials are concerned the government shutdown is cutting into the agency’s revenue as the system that carries a sizable share of the federal workforce runs full service despite thousands of employees staying home on furlough.

In response to the overflowing trash cans seen on the National Mall during the partial government shutdown, D.C. and community groups began stepping in to help keep parks clean. But now, their help may no longer be needed.

The National Park Service announced that it would resume maintenance services in Washington-area parks on Friday, including the National Mall, George Washington Memorial Parkway, and Rock Creek Park. It will also reopen several bathrooms at…

The government's partial shutdown has turned Washington's National Mall into a bleak place. Trash cans are overflowing, museums and historic sites are shuttered. Park Service rangers and Smithsonian employees are furloughed as the shutdown…

The people who have been calling the Washington region’s largest food bank this month sound different from before. More timid. More unsure. Less familiar with how the food bank system works.

The ongoing partial shutdown has stopped up the federal government’s payment of its water bills in Washington.

The federal government owns a lot of sinks, faucets and toilets in the District of Columbia, where 195,000 government employees wash their hands, fill up their water bottles and flush their waste on a daily basis.

WASHINGTON — Good news for lovebirds: Marriage licenses will soon be issued in D.C. again.

Tiara Logan's last day of work as a security guard at the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries in D.C. was Jan. 1. Before that, she had been on maternity leave since September after a high-risk pregnancy. She returned to work for just…