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Washington, D.C.’s iconic art museums are closed for the foreseeable future in accordance with the Mayor’s stay-at-home order. For art lovers, that means adjusting to a new reality in which art is viewed online, not in person.

No businesses around the area have been busier than grocery stores. And while stores remain packed, and workers keep stocking shelves and checking out customers, some of them are lobbying to be classified as “first responders” during this…

The coronavirus pandemic has created what feels like an unprecedented situation in the District: Schools are closed, hospital workers are overwhelmed and the region’s iconic public spaces are empty.

Two weeks after the DC Council unanimously passed emergency COVID response legislation, a supplemental bill is in the works to expand the protections offered in light of the pandemic.

How do you shelter in place when you don’t have a home? Where do you wash your hands when you live on the streets? These are some of the challenges faced by those struggling with homelessness amid the coronavirus outbreak. And advocates…

Most people in the District are familiar with the case of Relisha Rudd. In February 2014, the 8-year-old girl was living with her mother at D.C. General, a hospital turned family homeless shelter, when she was abducted. She is believed to…

As coronavirus spreads, first responders are also getting sick. As a result, D.C.-area departments are planning ahead to ensure they can avoid any changes to emergency response.

Normally, the Metro Board’s unanimous approval of the first rush-hour fare increases in three years, the restoration of some rail service hours and a number of other service cuts or additions would be a huge deal.

Housing inspectors say DCRA has failed to provide workers with adequate protection during the coronavirus pandemic.

Noel Sinkiat, 64, planned to retire in December after 41 years working as a nurse at Howard University Hospital. He would finally go on a long motorcycle trip with his friends.

Latease Jordan’s college, like most colleges, is basically closed. Classrooms have shuttered, offices are locked shut, courses have shifted online.

Long before the coronavirus began to decimate the local economy, the D.C. Department of Employment Services promised a modern, user-friendly portal for submitting unemployment claims.

The global deaf and hard of hearing community has turned to Gallaudet University as their source of bilingual information during the coronavirus pandemic.

D.C. charter schools get most of their funding from the government, a revenue stream that continues to flow as the coronavirus grinds the District’s economy to a halt. But some of the schools are now weighing whether they should apply for…

The Metro board on Thursday approved a budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1, but acknowledged it may have to be revisited as soon as June because of the fiscal uncertainty created by the coronavirus pandemic.

Washington-area leaders slammed the Trump administration Thursday over significant shortfalls in the number of hospital ventilators, respirator masks, gloves and other supplies delivered from a national stockpile to help combat the…

Kenneth J. Moore was a father figure wherever he went. By day, he helped counsel and guard teenagers who had been arrested in the District for the city’s Youth Rehabilitation Services. On nights and weekends, he was a dad to his three…

A sparkling new Australian embassy in view of the White House; the big-budget Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge near Nationals Park; a mixed-use development along the U Street NW corridor that will feature housing, offices, and a museum;…

The Washington Nationals were scheduled to host their first home game since winning the World Series on Thursday, and the new retailers on Half Street were supposed to make their long-awaited debut around the season opener.

The D.C. Council is readying a second round of legislation to respond to the growing economic fallout from the coronavirus, this time crafting provisions to provide some rent and mortgage relief for local businesses, tenants and…