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Because of the coronavirus pandemic, local drag queen and theater designer Justin Schmitz is in a pinch.

A plan to redevelop a church in upper Northwest D.C. and add senior housing has received opposition from a neighborhood group, and it is now taking the project to court.

D.C. bars and restaurants, closed to customers other than takeout or delivery, can now include beer, wine or spirits with those orders.

D.C.’s child protective services agency does not currently have enough medical supplies—including masks, hand sanitizer, or gloves—to provide to all the social workers who serve on the front lines of child welfare investigations, according…

District lawmakers are now using $900,000 the city’s lawyers won in a suit against a local developer to subsidize new affordable senior housing at an Anacostia project backed by that same builder.

Washingtonian Magazine has laid off its fellows and instituted a 10 percent pay cut for staffers amid a drop in revenue due to the coronavirus.

“A lot of children are not food secure, so these breaks are an issue for them.”

"We're just trying to keep our eye on the bigger picture, stay level-headed, and remember everybody is in this fight with us."

Adams Morgan could be the next DC neighborhood with a missing middle project on the boards.

It only took a global pandemic to bring two reliably adversarial branches of the D.C. government into agreement. In what will likely be its final in-person legislative meeting for several weeks, the D.C. Council passed emergency…

Some highway trips in the Washington region are taking half as long as usual, officials say

The best room in the four-dude Bloomingdale group house is also the most isolated — up on the third floor, with pine-tree wall art, big windows and its own bathroom and shower. It belongs to Dutch Seitz. But if our current national…

In the chaotic days before and after all public schools in the Washington region shut down for at least two weeks, school systems scrambled to prepare for teaching students from afar.

Dire. Catastrophic. Unprecedented. Daunting. The vocabulary of Washington’s nonprofit arts leaders has taken a depressing turn in the past week, when a global pandemic began upending their local communities and throwing their businesses…

The Metropolitan Police Department has discussed reducing arrests, but it has not formally announced any policy changes.

With most of the National Cherry Blossom Festival’s events postponed or cancelled due to the coronavirus, officials fear a lack of visitors — and their dollars — will mean less money for the fund that helps maintain the cherry trees,…

D.C.’s chief financial officer updated council members on the state of the District’s finances if the coronavirus outbreak continues into the summer.

As the number of Washington-area residents testing positive for the novel coronavirus climbs, hospitals are racing to enact a two-pronged strategy — expand testing capability and free up beds — in preparation for what could be a…

Demand for cabs is down at least 70% at one of D.C.’s largest taxi cab companies amid concerns and changes of routine related to the coronavirus outbreak.

The DC Council passed the change as part of its Covid-19 emergency response bill