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The percussive, funk-inspired, call-and-response style of music known as go-go is the sound of black Washington, D.C., a homegrown genre that seeped into the city’s bloodstream in the mid-sixties and still pulses through its streets today.…

Another video surfaced of D.C. officers cuffing a 9-year-old boy.

The headquarters staff of the D.C. school system will shrink by 70 positions under a reorganization proposal intended to direct money to classrooms — a move that marks one of the first major decisions by the city’s new schools chief.

Lawmakers and transportation planners are floating short- and long-term fixes for dangerous roads

K Street is one of the most congested and confusing thoroughfares in D.C.’s core. But a major redesign aims to reduce that congestion by prioritizing buses.

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine on Wednesday launched a review of police procedures after an officer was seen on video chasing and detaining a 9-year-old boy whose mother said had committed no crime.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced that his office will survey the Metropolitan Police Department’s practices around interacting with children and potentially recommend changes after several well-publicized incidents involving…

An incident between a 9-year-old boy and police who told him to stop leaning on a car ended with the child in handcuffs on Monday. Now, D.C.’s attorney general is reviewing how officers interact with children.

What began as Adrienne Dove’s routine visit to the doctor’s office ended more like a life-changing sales pitch of sorts. The physician checked Dove’s blood pressure, which has been dangerously high of late, and then the two started…

The activists haven’t been home in two weeks.

Proposed resolution says widening the highways would only worsen traffic in the city

Teachers at Mundo Verde Bilingual Charter school in Washington have made efforts to form a union, the second unionization attempt by charter school teachers in the District over the past two years.

D.C. newshounds know Russ Ptacek from his spirited investigative features on WUSA 9, tackling discriminatory cab drivers, vermin-filled restaurant kitchens, and more during his half decade at the CBS-affiliated local TV station.

Some D.C. residents may still think it’s okay to walk a dog across Howard University’s central yard.

Upwards of 2,000 new residences will be built as part of the Walter Reed redevelopment, and UrbanTurf recently got a look at what some of the new condominiums will look like.

If you wanted to slow down legislation moving through Capitol Hill, you might go visit one of the lobbyists working out of an office on K Street. If you wanted to experience an egregiously slow commute with the occasional illegal turn,…

Chef Kwame Onwuachi may have experienced a very high profile defeat in this city, but he still has faith in D.C.’s restaurant scene.

D.C.’s Office of the Attorney General has dropped charges against 20 people arrested by the Secret Service outside the Danish Embassy on March 28, as they protested the construction of the Rockwool insulation factory in Jefferson County,…