U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

The 988 mental health and suicide prevention helpline has quickly expanded its reach in the six months since it launched. It has received just over 2 million calls, texts and chat messages since July. In November, Washington became the first state to launch a mental health crisis line dedicated to American Indian and Alaska Native people.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin says preventing suicide among military veterans is his "number one clinical priority," and that he is working to fill some 45,000 open jobs in the agency.

The $10 billion Veterans Choice has not cut backlogs, critics say. This problem can be particularly urgent when it comes to mental health cases.

Many veterans used in secret U.S. military experiments during World War II weren't notified they could apply for compensation. Claire McCaskill's bill calls for a new policy for processing claims.

There are growing calls for leading universities as well as community colleges to do more to attract and serve those who served.

An Army Reservist will collect back pay from an Everett, Wash. company accused of violating his reemployment rights.The U.S Justice Department announced a…

Relief. That was the main reaction from government workers heading back to their jobs at the federal building in downtown Seattle after a couple weeks of…