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Shutting the economy down was necessary. But it was also painful.

It had rained overnight, and the cement paths around the Tidal Basin were messy with mud and puddles of water.

A children’s hospital in D.C. has opened a drive-up location where patients can be tested for the new coronavirus.

The texts quickly started lighting up Coach Jenkins’s phone. The inbox of Coach Zanders was flooded, too.

A singer in Washington, D.C., got by on multiple gigs. As the coronavirus shut down her city, her smartphone delivered one blow after another.

Both D.C. and Maryland are gearing up to start drive-through coronavirus testing sites and are calling on volunteers to join their respective Medical Reserves Corps to help staff them, along with other public health tasks, including…

It’s been a while since D.C. had a panda cub around, but some good news out of the National Zoo may soon change that.

Republic Restoratives Distiller in D.C.’s Ivy City neighborhood and local coffee chain Compass Coffee have been commissioned by the District to produce thousands of gallons of hand sanitizer.

Espita ran through its stock of guacamole on Saturday. Even though the Mexican restaurant was closed to in-house guests, orders flowed through Caviar, and customers lined up outside ready to take away food and cocktails. Still, co-owner…

In a move to it hopes will help stymie the spread of the novel coronavirus, the board of directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority decided to waive all bus fares for 60 days.

Time doesn’t stop for a pandemic, and neither do the reproductive cycles of pandas. On Sunday morning, the team at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo artificially inseminated their 21-year-old panda, Mei Xiang.

"Many of our staff will fall outside of the safety nets provided to others."

Anya Olsen bakes to relieve stress, usually focusing on sweets like cakes, cookies, and pies. She’s always wanted to try her hand at bread, too.

Brother John Sebastian Laird-Hammond, 59, a Franciscan of the Holy Land in America, died March 20 of the coronavirus, according to Franciscan Father Larry Dunham, guardian and commissary of the same order. He was the first person in…

Thousands of dollars worth of booze and other valuables from Republic Cantina were left untouched.

With the coronavirus pandemic causing event cancellations and grinding tourism and business travel to a halt, D.C hotel owners have experienced a dramatic drop in revenue. The lack of revenue has led owners to lay off staff and consider…

The National Zoo said Monday that veterinarians artificially inseminated its female giant panda, Mei Xiang, on Sunday morning.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Monday ordered all non-essential businesses to close by 5 p.m., while D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser urged people to remain home as much as possible and said police would be empowered to disperse any large groups of…

Despite many people taking advantage of being outdoors, taxi drivers in the D.C. area are feeling the pinch of the coronavirus pandemic.

The number of large-scale convention meetings in the District canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic has grown to eight, according to an update Friday from Destination D.C. president and CEO Elliott Ferguson. The economic toll of the…