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With D.C. residents under stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic, access to nature feels tenuous for many, even as spring marches forward. But there’s at least one socially distant solution: backyard birding, though backyards…

A D.C. police sergeant on the force for more three decades fell ill while leaving work Wednesday and died later at a hospital, the second veteran member of the department to die in the past three days.

An employee who tested positive for COVID-19 was last in the store on April 5.

Safeway is following Giant Food’s decision to now limit the number of customers in its grocery stores at any given time.

Good Wednesday afternoon. The number of new confirmed coronavirus cases this morning doubled from yesterday, as the city said 229 more people were sick and officials warned the District could became a new hotspot.

Pretty much every DC distillery (plus at least one coffee roastery) has expanded its lineup from gin, whiskey, and rum to hand-sanitizer amid nationwide shortages.

The national coronavirus outbreak is hammering the U.S. economy, and the District of Columbia is no exception. Businesses across the city are shuttered as a social-distancing mandate keeps many Washingtonians in their homes, triggering an…

The coronavirus pandemic has been a dramatic shock to untold numbers of people across the Washington region, many of whom have seen their jobs disappear or are facing cutbacks in the hours that they work. And in an area as costly as ours,…

More than twice as many black residents of the District have tested positive for COVID-19 than white residents so far, new data released by the city show. Additionally, black residents make up more than half of the COVID-19 deaths in the…

Big checks are coming. So are scams and price-gouging. Local officials plan to crack down.

To alleviate disruption caused by hearings being postponed throughout the public health emergency, the Office of Zoning (OZ) is seeking a blanket six-month extension for zoning approvals.

The pandemic isn't just bad news for the District's budget. It could threaten the city's autonomy.

Georgetown sophomore and freelance artist Alexandra Bowman wanted to keep up with her art and find some semblance of structure during local stay-at-home orders for the COVID-19 crisis. So she decided to launch #CatADayApril on Instagram,…

It is no secret that jails are particularly vulnerable to the spread of the novel coronavirus. Given the peril that people in jail face, public health experts have called for the reduction of jail populations across the country. In a…

The $2 trillion stimulus bill Congress passed last month treated D.C. as a territory, giving it $750M less in funding than each of the 50 states, a decision one local business leader called "shameful."

Giant Food, the largest grocery chain in Greater Washington, said Tuesday it will begin limiting the number of customers in its stores starting Thursday.

A federal judge said she wants an independent evaluator to inspect conditions within D.C jails, to determine if sufficient steps are being taken to attempt to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

In his 20 years as an emergency medical technician in the D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department, Tye Glover recalls having worn a hazmat suit only one time before.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pick-up basketball games. Crowds gathering at an outdoor fish market. Family hikes along trails in Rock Creek Park. The warmer weather is bringing violations of social distance guidelines in the nation’s capital, even as…

As the expected surge in coronavirus patients looms, George Washington University Hospital and its doctors are expanding services for both patients who lack equitable access to services on the city’s eastern side, and those it already…