A Washington state senator criticized for her comments about downtime for nurses has agreed to shadow a 12-hour shift and apologized for what she said on the Senate floor last week. See Walsh's full ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. On Wednesday afternoon, a flurry of phone calls and e-mails informed me that Sen. John ...

WALLA WALLA — After 28 years of public service, Sen. Maureen Walsh, R-College Place, told the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin Wednesday that she will be retiring. Walsh, who represents the 16th Legislative ...

Walsh, persuaded by Democratic figures both inside and outside Montana to run for the U.S. Senate last year after former Gov. Brian Schweitzer declined to run, says he hopes he can be a senator who ...

HELENA—Sen. John Walsh said Thursday he is pulling out of the Senate race because his campaign was distracted by the controversy over allegations that he plagiarized a U.S. Army War College research ...

Walsh, the only senator who served in the Iraq war, is seeking election in a race that top Democratic strategists – prior to the plagiarism revelations – saw as an uphill battle and unlikely to ...

Thomas Walsh came even closer in 1933. That he didn’t make it remains a matter of intrigue among some historians and family members. Walsh, a Helena attorney and a U.S. senator since 1912, is best ...