A pay freeze for federal works is back on the table, and D.C.-area senators are urging the Office of Personnel Management to address a backlog of retirement benefits claims.

Mayor Vince Gray urges D.C. to prepare for a 'new economy' less reliant on the federal government in his State of the District speech.

Activists in the District are calling for city leaders to use the $240 million surplus on programs for struggling members of the community instead of stashing it away in a rainy-day fund.

Not much has changed at the Occupy DC encampment in McPherson Square since the no-camping ban went into effect at noon Monday, with a federal judge ruling Tuesday that the NPS cannot seize tents unless violators are caught violating the rules.

Occupy DC gets a final warning to pack up camp, and the Virginia legislature shoots down a repeal of the "Kings Dominion law." 

New Hampshire is considering a resolution that lend the support of their state to the calls for D.C. statehood -- a message that is being spread up the coast by the Occupy hunger strikers.

Housing advocates took to the District again this week in the yearly trek to account for D.C.'s homeless population, which numbered more than 6,500 last year.

Occupy DC seems to have worn out its welcome, as city government and business leaders once again called for removal of the encampment this week. 

City and federal officials face questions today about conditions at the Occupy DC encampments in McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza.

A billionaire philanthropist has stepped in with a $7.5 million donation to help repair the earthquake damage to the Washington Monument.