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For Kevin Hollins, a catering driver at Howard University, there’s one surprising upside of school being closed for the coronavirus: “I actually developed a green thumb.”

The novel coronavirus crisis has launched Washington, D.C., into the most critical period of its short experience with elected government. If ever there was a call for well-grounded, smart leadership, it’s now. Election year 2020 will play…

At least 11 contractors working on a top-to-bottom renovation of the Cannon House Office Building have tested positive for COVID-19, forcing them and other construction workers on the project to go into quarantine.

Georgetown’s annual French Market, an open-air market staged each year between P Street and Reservoir Road on Wisconsin Avenue in the Book Hill corridor of D.C., will instead be a virtual event this year.

TGIF. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the DC Council will need to cut $721.8M from the current budget with just five months left in the fiscal year to offset revenue losses from a partially shuttered economy, according to the District’s chief…

It could be two years before D.C. recovers from most of the economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a newly released budget forecast by D.C. Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey DeWitt.

Most restaurants and bars aren't in a position to rehire their employees at the level the program requires.

Hours before the first families arrive to pick up the day’s breakfast and lunch from Kelly Miller Middle School, four cafeteria workers bustle in the kitchen.

Mallory Shelter, a jewelry designer and owner of Union Market District shop Shelter, says that in February, her store doubled its business from the year before. But by mid-March, it was temporarily closed due to coronavirus concerns

The Bureau of Prisons could send those without homes to alternative halfway houses far from D.C. or back to prison at the end of the month.

The once-stuffy library will make 25,000 audio clips available for personal and commercial use.

Music, like history, is iterative. Nobody knows that better than hip-hop artists, for whom sampling other songs is a core component of making new tracks.

Reverend Timothy Cole isn’t exactly sure where he contracted coronavirus, but he has a pretty good guess. In late February, he had attended a church leadership conference in Louisville, Kentucky, and later came down with the typical flu…

When someone in the D.C. area can’t feed himself or his family anymore, the Capital Area Food Bank’s hunger hotline is often the place to turn for help.

There are at least 255 nursing homes in the District, Maryland and Virginia with coronavirus cases as of Thursday, nearly double the number on April 11. According to data provided by officials, more than 2,000 residents and staff at these…

I’m involved in the cleanup of the stream running the length of Klingle Valley Trail from the Tregaron Conservancy down to Rock Creek and have been surprised and dismayed at the amount of trash in that beautiful, relatively new public…

There have been many examples of restaurants and other businesses taking the time to make generous donations even though they are struggling financially because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Javon Kinlaw, who rose from homelessness as a child in Washington, D.C. to become a standout defensive tackle at the University of South Carolina, was selected in the first round of the NFL draft Thursday night by the San Francisco 49ers…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser announced plans Thursday for an advisory group focused on when and how to lift coronavirus restrictions — a day before Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam plan to reveal their blueprints…

The D.C. fire department has partnered with a university and a regional nonprofit organization to manufacture parts needed for breathing machines that paramedics use for patients in respiratory distress, including those showing signs of…