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The correction on Korsha Wilson’s July 23 Washington Post feature about black families trying to hold onto their forebears’ farmland is gruesome. It’s 579 words long, a little more than a fifth of the length of the revised article. It has…

For more than a decade, Town Danceboutique was something of an institution—if not exactly religious, then perhaps spiritual—of D.C. nightlife. The gay nightclub had legions of devoted fans and partiers who came to its sprawling, two-tiered…

An internal review has found that three in 10 employees of D.C. Public Schools have expired background checks. That includes teachers and central office workers.

Last summer, when gay nightclub Town Danceboutique shuttered its doors, its patrons packed in for one last sweaty, nostalgic dance party — mourning the closing as the loss of a mainstay for D.C.'s LGBTQ community.

A Texas tourist dining at the Open City cafe at Washington National Cathedral complained recently after a server told her she didn’t appreciate the customer’s Trump 2020 campaign pin. Three days later, the server was fired.

The owners hope it will be the "crowning achievement of their careers."

Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh began day two of her 13th annual public school tour at Hardy Middle School. Since she began going on these tours during her first year in office, there has been a “sea change”.

Haymakers for Hope, a charity event to benefit cancer research, is making its District debut later this year.

Nearly half of all public school students in Washington, D.C. attend a charter school. But if a student shows up in D.C. in the winter or spring — or wants to transfer schools — the chance that they’ll end up at a charter school is…

WASHINGTON (WJLA) — On hot summer days in the District, public libraries are supposed to serve as cooling centers: a place people can go to seek refuge from the heat. But how can that happen if the cooling systems in those libraries aren't…

WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - Two sources tell FOX 5 D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Dr. Lewis Ferebee told a small group of parents Tuesday that 30 percent of staff have background checks that are out of compliance.

MidCity is planning to add 300 apartments to a Mount Vernon Square site it has owned since the 1960s.

"The Warmth of Other Suns" puts today's global refugee crisis into historical context.

“Most residents don’t know that the ‘red flag’ law is a tool they can use.”

The District Department of Transportation this summer is attempting to make a dent in the number of roads that are in poor condition via an extensive repaving effort.

About 1 in every 15 miles driven in the District is in an Uber or Lyft, according to a study.

Plans for a new halfway house in Northeast Washington are unsettled less than 90 days before the city’s current facility is scheduled to close, alarming activists who say the District risks being left without reentry services for men…