Veterans Affairs kept under microscope by senator from Washington.

The bill will allow state colleges and universities to cut administration and paperwork costs, passing savings on to encourage academic success in students, according to a legislative press release.

From her first race for the U.S. Senate in 2000, Maria Cantwell has rejected money from political action committees, saying at the time that she would rather talk to voters in the state than hit up special interests for campaign contributions.

The super-committee on deficit reduction has yet to hold its first meeting, but its co-chairs said they are hard at work constructing the new panel that has less than three months to recommend sweeping budget reductions – a task that skeptics give little chance at success.

Congress has created a special super committee to devise a way to cut at least $1.2 trillion from US spending in coming years. Its real name is the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, and its deadline is Nov. 23. Here are the 12 lawmakers serving on the super committee.

A former federal prosecutor, a Seattle City Councilman who used to be a police officer and Seattle's current city attorney testified Wednesday in support of a bill that would legalize marijuana in Washington state.

On Sunday the largest daily newspaper in Washington state came out in favor of House Bill 1550 – a bill that would allow for the legalization of cannabis and set up sales through liquor stores.

A Washington state man has been sentenced to five years of probation for threatening the family of a Colorado abortion doctor shortly after a Kansas abortion doctor was killed.

Dan Savage detailing the accounts of Richard Curtis' Sex Scandal with another man at a hotel.