The Oregon Transportation Commission voted unanimously Thursday to seek federal approval to toll two segments of Portland’s longest and most-used freeways, but motorists wouldn’t see such tolls for years.
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SALEM — On the campaign trail, Gov. Kate Brown was eager to tell voters she would represent all regions of the state.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The City Council in Portland, Oregon, has unanimously approved a measure that will forbid restaurants, bars and coffee shops from giving out plastic straws or other singl…
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A train carrying a load of logs derailed near downtown Salem, Oregon, causing authorities to close several roads.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Momentum is building to end the only-in-Oregon approach of issuing tax rebates in order to build reserves for schools.
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MADRAS, Ore. (AP) — A judge has found three Jefferson County Jail corrections officers not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in a man's death.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Investigators have not determined what caused a pair of hazardous materials scares that sent 21 people at Intel's Hillsboro campus to hospitals for mysterious respiratory…
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Brown needs to find $2.6 billion more than is already being paid in state taxes to cover her proposals for the state’s next two-year budget.
Governments in Oregon unreasonably delay handing over public documents or charge too much for that access, and put records of elected officials sometimes nearly beyond reach of citizens, accor…
Oregon State Sen. Cliff Bentz, R-Ontario, is confident that proposed carbon cap and trade legislation will pass the Legislature in 2019.
U.S. wheat prices are lower than those of competing countries, but experts say it's still a tough export market.
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BEND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's trumpeter swan breeding program has a new pair of the elegant white water birds as part of its ongoing bid to restore the population of the species after it was hunt…
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HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say three employees from Intel's Hillsboro campus were taken to a hospital for mysterious respiratory issues for the second time in less than a week.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A U.S. senator from Oregon is asking the Senate to provide federal assistance to vineyards that suffered smoke exposure from wildfires.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's attorney general has approved language for a ballot measure to make psychedelic mushrooms legal.
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NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) — A 30-year-old doctor from Corvallis, Oregon, has died while surfing near Devils Punchbowl, about eight miles north of Newport.
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RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — The Coast Guard issued a $5,000 fine to someone who jumped overboard from an entertainment vessel into the Columbia River in Richland in June.
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BANDON, Ore. (AP) — Coos County District Attorney Paul Frasier will not file criminal charges against the officers involved in the fatal shooting of a 65-year-old man in Bandon.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The state of Oregon has agreed to pay $1.25 million to the family of a teen who died under the watch of child welfare workers.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon transportation officials have unveiled a proposal to eventually toll two stretches along Portland-area freeways.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A review of city financial documents by The Oregonian/OregonLive has found that the cost to Portland taxpayers for security guards at City Hall has jumped more than fivef…
SALEM — Oregon’s government has been at legal war with President Donald Trump and his administration for two years. This week, it moved to arm itself for more fights.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon regulators and a California winery accused of misrepresenting the Oregon origins of its bestselling pinot noir, an act which infuriated local winemakers, said Thursda…
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A credit union will launch a pilot program to begin serving marijuana businesses in Alaska, giving the cash-reliant industry a financial option after banks shunned the…
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon State University student with ties to white nationalists in the Pacific Northwest was convicted Thursday on charges related to putting offensive stickers on th…
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LAKESIDE, Ore. (AP) — Officials say a train on the Coos Bay Rail Line derailed Tuesday night.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A group seeking to lure a Major League Baseball team to Portland announced that it has signed an agreement in principle to develop a 45-acre waterfront site.
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MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a Medford man who was incarcerated at an eastern Oregon prison died Friday at a nearby hospital.
SALEM — Every school student in Oregon would be touched by the ambitious investment in education proposed Wednesday by Gov. Kate Brown.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Pinot noir is one of the finickiest grapes, but with proper nurturing it produces an amazing wine. Officials in Oregon and at a U.S. government agency are similarly finicky,…
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SALEM — Gov. Kate Brown stood at her lectern in the walnut-paneled ceremonial office Wednesday morning to deliver a symbolic message as she released a budget she characterized as “ambitious.”
WASHINGTON (AP) An internal watchdog has cleared Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke of wrongdoing following a complaint that he redrew the boundaries of a national monument in Utah to benefit a s…
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) A soldier from Washington state who was killed in Afghanistan over the weekend gave his life in service of the United States, Gov. Jay Inslee said.
SEATTLE (AP) A Russian asylum seeker who conducted a hunger strike to protest the conditions at an immigration jail in Tacoma died by suicide, the Pierce County Medical Examiner's Office rul…
PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) Authorities are investigating after a person was killed at a creamery business in northeast Oregon.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Sporting Kansas City has signed longtime defender Seth Sinovic to a contract extension through next season, three days before facing Portland in the return match for t…
SALEM, Ore. (AP) Commercial crabbers in Oregon and California are suing 30 fossil fuel companies, claiming they are to blame for climate change, which has hurt their industry.
NEW YORK (AP) It was a great week of basketball north of the border with the Vancouver Showcase.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Oregon Lottery's "Pick 4 10PM" game were:
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Oregon Lottery's "Pick 4 4PM" game were:
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Few, if any, expected the Los Angeles Clippers to be atop the Western Conference standings 19 games into the season.
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Keno" game were:
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Match 4" game were:
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Daily Game" game were:
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ These Washington lotteries were drawn Sunday:
PORTLAND, Ore. - Martin Fasko-Rudas scored twice as the Everett Silvertips held off the Portland Winterhawks for a 5-3 victory in Western Hockey League action Sunday evening.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Idaho Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) Terry Williams and Bo Levi Mitchell helped the Calgary Stampeders end their Grey Cup misery.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Oregon Lottery's "Pick 4 7PM" game were:
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Sporting Kansas City coach Peter Vermes said the scoreless first leg of the Western Conference finals sets up a second leg that's "truly a final."
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Tim Melia made six saves and Sporting Kansas City survived Portland's aggressive attack for a 0-0 draw Sunday in the opening leg of Major League Soccer's Western Conferen…
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Tim Melia made six saves and Sporting Kansas City survived Portland's aggressive attack for a 0-0 draw Sunday in the opening leg of Major League Soccer's Western Conferen…
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Oregon Lottery's "Lucky Lines" game were:
SEATTLE (AP) Matej Kavas scored 22 points with 13 rebounds, Myles Carter scored 14 with 12 boards and Seattle trounced Longwood 70-50 in the Elgin Baylor Classic Sunday night.
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) Ethan Thompson had 18 points and seven rebounds, and brother Stephen Thompson Jr. added 17 points to help Oregon State hold off Long Beach State 75-72 on Sunday.