Maria Cantwell

With less than a week to go before Election Day, voters in Washington state appear poised to legalize marijuana and same-sex marriage, the nonpartisan Washington Poll results showed Thursday. The state may become the first to legalize the recreational...

Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell performed well in the August primary, beating her Republican opponent, Michael Baumgartner, by more than 25 percentage points. The two candidates recently faced each other in their one and only televised debate prior to...

Sen. Barbara A. Mikulskiwill have a speaking role at the Democratic National Convention, aides said Wednesday. The Maryland Democrat, who this year became the longest-serving woman in congressional history, will lead a program highlighting the record...

Former Democratic Congressman Jay Inslee and state Attorney General Rob McKenna won the top two spots in Washington's gubernatorial primary election Tuesday and will face off in November in what is expected to be one of the closest races for governor in...

Analyzing primary elections is an inexact science, but it’s generally felt that Republicans fare better when the turnout is lower and the electorate is older and more conservative. Normally, primaries fit that profile. But that has not been the case...

State and federal officials are inspecting a 20-foot fishing boat that washed ashore at Washington's Cape Disappointment State Park that appears to have originated in Japan, the Washington state Department of Ecology confirmed Friday. Reports began to...

A running account of tsunami debris finds and debris-related news in and around Washington: June 20: Large piece of metal, refrigerator, television A piece of metal initially thought to be a 7-foot airplane fuselage is found at Cranberry Beach in...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded a $7.7 million grant to the Tacoma Fire Department that will be used to avert the proposed layoff of 37 firefighters, Mayor Marilyn Strickland and Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., announced Friday. “...

The state is asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for investigative help in determining why whooping cough is spreading so quickly in Washington. It comes after Gov. Christine Gregoire released emergency money to pay for more vaccine,...

State Sen. Michael Baumgartner, R-Spokane, official filed his candidacy Monday for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Maria Cantwell. “America’s years of decline must stop here and now,” Baumgartner said in a statement issued by...

A 150 foot Japanese fishing vessel, believed to be washed out to sea by an earthquake and tsunami last March, has appeared off the coast of British Columbia and is expected to drift north toward Alaska, according to NOAA. Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska)...

A 150-foot Japanese fishing vessel that was washed away last year in Japan’s major earthquake and tsunami has traveled across the Pacific Ocean and is about 120 nautical miles off Canada’s Haida Gwaii, formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands,...