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Pandemic prompts halt to massive Baltimore building project 04/30/2020 09:09am • BALTIMORE — A developer has suspended a massive construction project in Baltimore to protect workers during the coronavirus pandemic. The Baltimore Sun reported Thursday that the Port Covington project on the city’s waterfront was in its first phase of construction. Plans include more than Coronavirus update: Racine blasts crisis scammers, Bowser expands small business recovery funding 04/29/2020 01:15pm • D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine lambasted those looking to make a buck by taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic. During a news conference Wednesday with Mayor Muriel Bowser, Racine said his office has received complaints about landlords, management companies, price gouging, robocalls an Virginians stuck at home are fed up with noise from Amazon headquarters project 04/29/2020 04:32am • The coronavirus pandemic has shut down American life as we know it, but construction remains underway on Amazon's second headquarters in Northern Virginia and is producing noise that's frustrating many homebound residents nearby. The Seattle-based online retail giant is building twin 22-story bui When will businesses in Ocean City reopen? 04/28/2020 11:33pm • Ocean City, Maryland, has extended its emergency stay-at-home order until May 15. The new declaration also prohibits social gatherings of 10 or more people and comes as many stay-at-home orders are expected to remain in effect into May. The date of the resort community's emergency order is su Poll: Most Americans support state coronavirus restrictions on businesses, gatherings 04/28/2020 09:29am • A new poll suggests Americans overwhelmingly stand behind state-imposed restrictions on businesses and public gatherings to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, with a majority of those who identify as Republicans and Democrats viewing the measures as appropriate. In a survey of over 1,000 A Thermal imaging could be used to deny entry into businesses 04/28/2020 08:24am • ▶ Watch Video: Businesses hope thermal imaging cameras will be key to safe reopening Thermal imaging cameras are the latest devices businesses hope will help reopen the economy while keeping people safe from the threat of COVID-19. The cameras are used to scan temperature from a safe d What DC can learn from the 1918 flu epidemic 04/28/2020 05:52am • In this November 1918 photo made available by the Library of Congress, a nurse takes the pulse of a patient in the influenza ward of the Walter Reed hospital in Washington. (Harris & Ewing/Library of Congress via AP, File) Ever since the novel coronavirus began infecting millions globally an 2 DC women raise funds to provide masks to vulnerable populations 04/27/2020 10:17pm • Two D.C. women have started a fundraising drive, with the goal of getting local garment alteration shops to make face masks to be distributed to vulnerable populations in the city. (Courtesy Abby Buskager) Two D.C. women are working to get cloth face masks made locally, and then donate them to r Virginia assembles COVID-19 Business Task Force to assist with safely reopening 04/26/2020 04:06pm • Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has put together a COVID-19 Business Task Force to assist with plans on reopening the commonwealth. One of the members of the group said it's an important step in ensuring local businesses and services resume in a safe manner. "I think it's obvious that social dista More states are easing coronavirus restrictions, unnerving experts and local officials 04/26/2020 03:36am • Several states are reopening from coronavirus shutdowns this week even as the number of people infected in the US gets closer to 1 million. Colorado, Minnesota and Montana plan to ease social distancing and stay-at-home restrictions. And starting Monday, Iowa will reopen Parents try to save Montgomery County school amid coronavirus uncertainty 04/24/2020 08:45pm • While the D.C. region has no shortage of expensive, exclusive private schools, parents say the Seneca Academy in Darnestown, Maryland, isn’t one of them. But they love it, and have a passion for it just the same. “It’s not one of your chic, high-end private schools where everybody drives fa Quarantine cooking: Making substitutions for popular recipe ingredients 04/24/2020 07:20pm • A lot of people are limiting the amount of grocery shopping they are doing to once a week up to once every 10 days. Many are using the time in quarantine to master new culinary skills. But, inevitably, people will find themselves in a situation where they are lacking a seemingly key ingredient to Georgetown's popular French Market goes virtual this year 04/24/2020 06:40pm • Shoppers look at products at the 2019 Georgetown French Market. (Courtesy Georgetown BID)       Georgetown’s annual French Market, an open-air market staged each year between P Street and Reservoir Road on Wisconsin Avenue in the Book Hill corridor of D.C., will instead Stay safe, shop smart and eat healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic 04/24/2020 12:39pm • This content is sponsored by MedStar Washington Hospital Center. The novel coronavirus has millions of Americans staying at home as much as possible, and, in turn, preparing many meals in their kitchens. During these uncertain times, it’s important to eat healthy and create well-balanced meals Improvements in crowdsourcing app helps find supplies like toilet paper 04/24/2020 06:14am • A free crowdsourcing app that can help you find essential supplies like eggs and paper towels during the coronavirus pandemic has been downloaded about 30,000 times in the last 3 weeks. The app is called OurStreets, and its original goal was to help people report things like cars parked in bik