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Music is great for dancing and partying, but it can also be healing.

The District isn't too far behind its neighbor, Arlington County, when it comes to the commercial tax burden on its businesses. But that couldn't save it from ranking among the toughest cities in which to do business, according to a recent…

D.C. is implementing traffic improvements to prevent crashes between cars, cyclists and pedestrians. Here’s a look at what the city is doing.

Charles and Arsha Jones have been selling D.C.'s signature mambo sauce since 2011.

They’re having a devil of a time.

It’s been a scary year for the area’s trans community, with two murders and a spate of assaults serving as a reminder that despite how LGBTQ-friendly Washington is, violence can still be a hazard. Amid this atmosphere of fear, a…

A large potential development opportunity west of Rock Creek Park has hit the market.

The D.C. government plans to sharply increase low-cost housing in some of the District’s most affluent neighborhoods to spread it more equitably throughout the city and correct what officials called a history of “racially discriminatory”…

After her son’s friend was shot dead in a robbery attempt, Lisa McNair wanted to send the teen to high school in South Carolina, where his paternal grandmother lives.

Longtime Adams Morgan club Heaven and Hell is so named for its dual-bar concept: Climb the stairs for an angelic dance club, or descend below for a more infernal vibe. But now, the latter part of its moniker is just as apt in describing…

On “Trenchtown Rock,” Bob Marley sang, “One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.” Saturday’s first-ever Down in the Reeds festival takes the message behind those lyrics one step further, aiming to promote music’s profound…

Having apparently solved all the urgent problems besetting D.C. – crime, poverty, traffic, homelessness, public schools that don’t educate, etc. – the D.C. Council - whose city is actually named for Columbus! got down to the important…

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day. It is the first time Columbus Day has been renamed in DC, after the DC Council passed emergency legislation last Tuesday. The change took effect for 2019 when Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the bill on Friday.

On Monday in the nation's capital, there is no Columbus Day. The D.C. Council voted to replace it with Indigenous Peoples' Day in a temporary move that it hopes to make permanent. Several other places across the United States have also…

You want it to come off the page or come off the surface as having a life," Akili Ron Anderson says. "That’s what I tried to do."

Transformer is hosting its 16th annual silent auction and benefit on October 26.

Once a week, in the basement auditorium of the MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C., a group of men gather to discuss the various struggles and triumphs of life in a wheelchair.

Drivers should expect parking restrictions and some street closures west of the White House.