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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

Democrats already have a better-than-even chance of losing control of the Senate to Republicans in the midterm elections in November. Now, they could be losing their incumbent candidate in Montana ...

CNN — In a span of three days, nearly 650,000 nurses signed a petition to get Washington state Sen. Maureen Walsh to walk in their shoes for a day. And she's accepted the challenge. The Republican ...

Senate Republicans are working around the clock this weekend to pass the massive tax and spending bill that includes the bulk of President Trump's agenda. GOP leaders are still trying to lock in the ...

Sen. John Walsh, the Montana Democrat chosen to fill Ambassador Max Baucus' empty seat, plagiarized at least 25 percent of his master's thesis, according to an embarrassing report from Jonathan Martin ...