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About 250 people spent part of a chilly but clear Veterans Day surrounding the Regional Veterans Memorial at Columbia Park on Wednesday.

A 33-year-old former Marine from Kennewick plans to run next year against U.S. Rep.

Kennewick, WA- A former marine wants to unseat the longtime congressman in the Mid Columbia.

A 33-year-old former Marine from Kennewick plans to run next year against Congressman Doc Hastings in the district that includes Tri-Cities and Yakima.

A subcontractor on the Hanford Reservation will run as a Democrat against U.S. Rep.

Former U.S. Marine Jay Clough will announce his candidacy tomorrow for Washington's 4th Congressional District, currently held by Republican incumbent Rep.

WASHINGTON With a historic vote possible as early as today, one Washington state representative, Brian Baird, said Friday that he couldn't support the Democratic health care bill, while another, Adam Smith, said he had yet to make up his mind.

A political newcomer out of the Tri-Cities plans to announce a 2010 run at the 4th District congressional seat held by U.S. Rep.

Politico has an interesting story today on an earmark reform panel created by the Republicans almost a year ago .

On Nov. 19, 2008, House GOP leaders John Boehner and Eric Cantor created a select committee on earmark reform to bring 'meaningful change to the process by which Washington spends taxpayers' hard-earned money.' On Nov.

Representatives Markey & Hastings & Senator Inhofe, as well as many experts from both sides of the climate change policy, discuss and debate at a Washington Briefing convened by The Washington Times WASHINGTON, Nov.

Czech President Vaclav Klaus as well as top U.S. politicians and scientists will debate climate change Wednesday in a daylong conference organized by The Washington Times.

Though Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry is fighting deportation from the United States he still flies an American flag at his west Yakima home.

Harold Copeland took an engineering job at the Hanford nuclear reservation in 1947, swayed by a recruiter's pitch that he would be paid a good wage and could live in a house with his wife in the government-owned town of Richland.

The President visited DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy center, billed as the largest solar photovoltaic center in the country.

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved legislation that could wind up forcing the National Park Service to move a wilderness boundary line to rebuild a flood-prone road.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday approved a bill to move and restore the washed-out Stehekin River Road, the only road access out of Lake Chelan into the North Cascades National Park.

Dozens of U.S. representatives sent a letter to the head of the President's Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force raising concerns it would try to block offshore energy development and cost Americans jobs.

Doc Hastings has sent a timely and important question to President Obama: What about Yucca Mountain? Rep.

WASHINGTON a ' Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday said he is seeking an investigation of a Bush-era decision to give low royalty rates and favorable terms to energy companies that commercially developed oil shale on public lands in Utah and Colorado.