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D.C. book lovers and library-goers, rejoice. If your public library card was expired, worry not — it has been renewed, or “unexpired” as the D.C. Public Library’s executive director Richard Reyes-Gavilan put it on Friday.

Food is flying off the shelves at area grocery stores as D.C.-area residents stock up and hunker down amid the unfolding coronavirus pandemic. But that’s a lot harder to do when there isn’t an easily accessible grocery store.

It’s one minute before 6 p.m. on Friday, and Steve Dunn is ringing a cowbell on his street in Mt. Pleasant in Northwest D.C. Neighbors up and down the street gathered on their porches. Dunn’s husband, Tom Burkhardt, donned a sparkly cape,…

D.C. leaders are worried that coronavirus concerns could fuel human rights violations.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Friday she would extend the city’s public health emergency through the end of April as the city records its first death from COVID-19.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser on Friday extended school and restaurant closures and a ban on large gatherings through the end of April, following the first known covid-19 death in the nation’s capital and a spike in coronavirus patients.

The extraordinary measures that the city has implemented to stop the spread of coronavirus will remain in place until April 27, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced today. Schools will continue distance learning and the ban on mass gatherings…

It’s official, the cherry blossoms at the Tidal Basin have reached peak bloom, a day earlier than predicted, the National Park Service announced Friday.

As the sun rose over the Tidal Basin for the first morning of peak bloom of cherry blossoms, the crowds gathered. Photographers set up tripods, selfies with flowers were snapped, and couples wrapped their arms around one another as they…

As confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the D.C. area have begun an exponential rise, local hospitals are bracing for the grueling weeks and months ahead.

The spread of the coronavirus means fewer people, but an early peak bloom still draws visitors to the Tidal Basin

Couples who live in the same city are now scheduling FaceTime hangouts and, yes, phone sex.

Pierre Desrosiers, the lead singer of RDGLDGRN (pronounced Red Gold Green), and his bandmates were already in New York City for the first stop of their spring tour last Thursday when they decided to cancel the entire run. After the indie…

The number of people in the District who have been tested for COVID-19 more than doubled from Wednesday to Thursday, thanks largely to the increase in reporting from tests performed by commercial labs. But nearly two weeks after the city…

Zunnobia Hakir keeps her 6-year-old son’s schedule busy.

"Adversity doesn’t build character, it exposes it. If you’re a decent person normally, amplify it more in this situation."

Jackson Winfrey, a high school senior from Kansas City, was on a school trip to D.C. during our unusually warm February when he noticed a tree at the Tidal Basin a bit different from the others. In fact, “the most unique one” out of all…

Everyone from the owner and executive chef down to the cook who sends money home to his or her family needs help.

Keeping a safe six feet between one another, neighbors grooved to "I Will Survive"

Although the DC area tends to be more insulated from economic downturns than other areas, the downturn triggered by the coronavirus pandemic will hit the area in a similar way to the rest of the country.