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When the leaders of D.C., Maryland and Virginia announced unprecedented stay-at-home orders this week to control spread of the coronavirus, the moves sparked questions about how far police might go to enforce them.

The non-voting member of Congress for the nation’s capital urged colleagues Friday to include language in the next coronavirus relief bill legalizing marijuana sales in Washington, D.C.

Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? And who breaks a kite upon a truncheon?

Are you going a little stir-crazy due to the coronavirus pandemic? If you’re looking to get out of the house and stretch your legs, but also do some good, it’s worth thinking about helping the Rock Creek Conservancy.

The world is currently facing unprecedented challenges, and the arts can provide a measure of relief. Now that we are unable to interface with our communities physically, we in the field need to be thoughtful about how we move the wellness…

The $25 million emergency funding for the Kennedy Center was already a controversial piece of the $2.2 trillion federal stimulus package, but criticism of it grew after the arts center furloughed hundreds of employees Tuesday, within days…

Washington Sports Club may soon be hit with a lawsuit if the company doesn’t stop charging membership fees amid the coronavirus shutdown to all nonessential businesses.

The responses range from agreement to disappointment to confusion to outright anger.

Only one month ago, Andy Berta considered himself a full-time dog walker. Serving the Columbia Heights neighborhood, Berta, better known as “Andy The Dog Walker,” took various pooches out and about throughout the day for long strolls or…

More than 120 George Washington University faculty members renewed their call this week for the resignation of university President Thomas J. LeBlanc, saying the coronavirus crisis only heightens their concerns about LeBlanc’s vision for…

Mayor Muriel Bowser offered a sobering assessment today of what's likely to occur in the weeks and months ahead, announcing that the District's modeling suggests that upward of 93,000 DC residents will be infected with COVID-19 at some…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser announced Friday that the city projects 1 in 7 residents will contract coronavirus, with the nation’s capital seeing a peak in hospitalized patients around late June and early July.

Roughly one in every seven D.C. residents could get infected with coronavirus as the pandemic hits a peak in early summer and then gradually recedes, according to projections Mayor Muriel E. Bowser cited Friday.

"People need a place, a home, during a pandemic."

“I just got exceptionally good news,” Susie Sinclair-Smith, CEO of the Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless (MCCH) said on a phone call Thursday. A man in one of her organization’s shelters, who was sweating, with aches and a…

Attorney General Karl A. Racine sent a letter today to the parent company that operates the Washington Sports Club gyms telling the group to stop charging members during the coronavirus pandemic. Racine penned the letter with New York…

Before the coronavirus crisis began, the D.C. office market was already struggling with high vacancy and stagnant demand, and the freeze in economic activity is only going to make matters worse.

The District says it will set up 17 handwashing stations near homeless encampments and service sites amid the growing COVID-19 pandemic. The move comes as the novel coronavirus continues to spread across the region, putting those who lack…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser says modeling the city has done shows the District could see between 93,000 cumulative coronavirus infections and 220 deaths on the low end to more than 1,000 on the high end before the pandemic subsides. She also…

DC Policy Center's latest rental report builds on prior analysis of the city's mismatched housing market.