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SALEM — A Republican in the Oregon Senate lodged a handful of formal complaints against his Democratic colleagues for creating a hostile workplace, in the wake of threats another Republican, S…

PORTLAND — Court had been in session for close to an hour before Ms. Nilsen’s turn came.

BEND — Two filmmakers are putting the finishing touches on their full-length documentary about Bend being home to the last Blockbuster in the world.

SALEM — Anna Williams was a particular bright spot among the many 2018 election victories for Oregon Democrats.

SALEM — Supporters of a petition to recall Gov. Kate Brown came up short of the signatures needed for a ballot challenge, Oregon Republican Party Chair Bill Currier said Monday.

PORTLAND — To combat rising obesity rates among children, experts say healthy eating habits are key. One program aiming to put kids on track for healthier food choices is Food Roots in Tillamo…

SALEM — They were busy this summer, showing up in places like the state fair, brew fests and libraries.

SALEM — Oregon’s Liquor Control Commission and the Oregon Health Authority on Friday, Oct. 11, rolled out a ban on the sale of all flavored cannabis and nicotine vaping products in response to…

PORTLAND — Researchers looking into what’s injuring people who vape have been focused on oil coating the lungs, a form of pneumonia. Now another problem is surfacing: lungs that look like they…

In the 2019 ODFW hunting regulations, a quarter-mile-wide no-hunting buffer around the perimeter of Wallowa Lake was removed. Residents and business owners have expressed concern that hunting …

SALEM — Oregon's public records advocate says fees charged by the state and local governments for public records requests are high and wildly uneven, creating a barrier for journalists and res…

A proposed tourist lodge along the rim of Oregon’s Lake Billy Chinook has unnerved local farmers concerned about potential conflicts between agriculture and increased visitor traffic.

SALEM — The AR-15 has taken center stage in the American gun debate. But at its heart, the AR-15 is a rifle that has been modified to look and feel a certain way.

ONTARIO — What happens when one of the most famous rappers alive today headlines an impromptu concert in a sleepy city in Eastern Oregon?

Looking out at an expansive meadow in Oregon’s Blue Mountains, local cattleman Loren Stout sees not an idyllic landscape but an “environmental disaster.”

SALEM — A U.S. district court says Oregon must develop new plans to keep the state’s rivers from getting too warm for fish.

SALEM — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has imposed a six-month ban on the sale of flavored vaping products.

BEND — Oregon residents will start to receive letters in March asking for general information about themselves for the 2020 census, the official count of U.S. residents every 10 years.

PORTLAND — At the Little Amsterdam Wellness Dispensary in Southwest Portland, store manager Monica Gayda said she’s contacted all her vape product vendors to learn what’s in their products — e…

SALEM — The former human resources director for the Oregon Legislature was paid nearly $100,000 to work from home for the first eight months of 2019 after she agreed to a quiet exit last fall …

SALEM — The 2019 fire season officially came to an end Tuesday on all lands protected by the Oregon Department of Forestry. The 923 wildfires on ODF-protected lands this year is about average.

SALEM — A second death related to vaping has prompted the Oregon Health Authority to advise Oregonians to stop vaping.

SALEM — The Governor’s Council on Wildfire Response said Thursday, Sept. 26, that the state needs to update its firefighting priorities and techniques to deal with future conflagrations.

SALEM — Adopted out of foster care as a baby, Rebecca Jones Gaston will now oversee the welfare of thousands of Oregon kids in similar situations.

After winning a court order limiting grazing, environmentalists are now seeking to overturn the federal government’s grazing authorization for two Oregon ranchers convicted but later pardoned …

PORTLAND — An anti-immigration group is paying for two Eastern Oregon sheriffs to attend political events in Washington, D.C., this week.

SALEM — The Oregon Department of Human Services announced Wednesday that Rebecca Jones Gaston will be the new director for its Child Welfare Program.

SALEM — After two wildfire-filled seasons, Oregonians got a break this summer.

Oregon FFA has hired Leila Graves as the association's first career development coordinator, working with both agriculture teachers and industry professionals to ensure career development even…

SALEM — Oregonians fuming over stalled freeway traffic have a sympathetic person in a powerful spot.

BEND — Patty Stell has many memories of her six years at Kenwood School in the early 1960s, but the one that stands out was the day she brought a goat for show and tell.

SALEM — Carol Manstrom says she lost her 18-year-old son when he grabbed his father’s unsecured pistol and shot himself. Paul Kemp lost his brother-in-law when a man opened fire with a stolen …

When state Rep. Tiffiny Mitchell of Astoria won election to the Oregon House to represent the north coast, there was a lot flying through her head.

THE DALLES, Ore. — Oregon transportation officials have authorized the first round of funding for two truck-to-rail intermodal facilities intended to boost the efficient shipping of farm products.

SALEM — Gov. Kate Brown will not call a special session to change a controversial bill limiting the state’s death penalty before the law takes effect on Sept. 29.

SALEM — A newly revived committee in the Oregon House is taking a deep dive into water issues, potentially creating opportunities and worries for the state’s irrigators.

The tropical Pacific Ocean probably won't be particularly warm or cool this winter, climatologists said Thursday, depriving forecasters of their best clue to how much snow will pile up in the …