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The District will join Northern Virginia Friday in taking tentative steps toward ending its prolonged economic shutdown, while the Maryland suburbs plan to keep restrictions in place for at least several days longer.

The D.C. Public Charter School Board on Wednesday named a former top St. Paul, Minn., public schools official to be its next executive director — one of the most powerful posts in D.C. education, overseeing a high-profile and expansive…

Golf courses, tennis courts and tracks in the District will be allowed to open Friday as part of its first phase of reopening.

No more than six people can be seated together, and all tables must be at least six feet apart.

Mayor Muriel Bowser announced this morning that DC's stay-at-home order will be lifted as of Friday.

Residents will still be required to wear face masks and social distance.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will allow restaurants, hair salons and some other businesses to slowly begin to reopen to customers Friday, now that the District has hit some of the benchmarks identified by public health officials indicating the…

Mayor Muriel Bowser extends phase one of reopening to bars and clubs who are licensed to serve food, going against ReOpen DC's original recommendation.

The door is opening gradually, but it’s opening nonetheless.

The road to recovery was already laden with difficulty for District resident Lisa Kaneff. Hip surgery and six months of physical therapy three years ago weren’t enough to erase the chronic pain she’s dealt with for most of her adult life.…

Mayor Bowser announces phase one reopening will begin May 29

It’s official. D.C. will start the Phase 1 reopening process Friday after hitting a key benchmark in the fight against coronavirus: a 14-day decline in community spread.

A Riggs Park townhouse project in the works since 2015 appears close to a groundbreaking.

George Valentine sat hunched on the bottom step of his Capitol Hill rowhouse, a bald man in black sweatpants staring through the open front door, too breathless to speak. It was about 1:30 p.m. on the last Wednesday in March, and he was…

Georgetown University sent incoming Hoyas a most unusual greeting this month, simultaneously enthusiastic and vague.

It’s just past 7 a.m. as Tavis Clinton’s sanitation truck pulls to a stop in an alley in the Washington, D.C., neighborhood of Petworth, its streets lined by aging rowhouses and the occasional glass-and-metal gentrified upstart apartment…

The US Census can help determine how much federal funding D.C. receives in the future.

As John Wall continues rehabbing his ruptured Achilles tendon, he’s gotten into the habit of cycling around the District. He often winds up in Ward 8, where the Washington Wizards’ practice facility is located.

The letter began, “The United States federal government has received information indicating immoral conduct on your part.” It demanded, “Have you ever engaged in acts of anal copulation, sometimes referred to as sodomy or anal sodomy? If…

With fewer than six weeks until Independence Day, local and federal officials are growing increasingly concerned about the possibility of a Fourth of July event on the National Mall.