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SALEM — About 21,800 Oregonians risk losing government benefits to help them buy food if a proposed federal rule goes into effect in April.

SALEM — Oregon’s gun owners will face penalties for not securing their firearms when not in use under a proposal that’s likely be introduced in the upcoming legislative session.

SALEM — One question has lingered in political circles in the days since Democratic legislators unveiled their latest plan to limit the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.

SALEM — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is calling for a major expansion in the state’s wildfire response plans in a new legislative concept lawmakers heard on Tuesday.

Snowpack in Oregon and Washington have rebounded significantly over the last two weeks thanks to recent winter storms that have dumped several feet of fresh mountain snow.

PORTLAND — Despite crude oil price fluctuation and growing geopolitical concerns with Iran in the last week, pump prices remain fairly steady, according to AAA Oregon/Idaho.

Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, is out of the Capitol this week while being treated for a hip injury at Oregon Health & Science University, according to his office.

Jimmy Crumpacker, a Tumalo businessman and Republican, announced his bid for Oregon’s 2nd Congressional District on Monday.

A 933-acre logging project on U.S. Bureau of Land Management property in Southern Oregon is accused of violating federal law by environmentalists who seek to overturn its authorization.

SALEM — The Oregon state legislature’s short session begins Feb. 3, with lawmakers planning to resurrect climate legislation after last session’s controversial “cap-and-trade” proposal failed.

SALEM — Less than a month before legislators convene again, a new proposal to cap Oregon’s greenhouse gas emissions is taking firmer shape.

SALEM — Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek says Oregon’s crisis of unsheltered homelessness has reached emergency status.

SALEM — Deputy Secretary of State Rich Vial has resigned his position.

SALEM — Proponents of two clean-energy initiatives on Wednesday sued Secretary of State Bev Clarno to reverse her decision stopping the groups from advancing initiatives for the November election.

McDERMITT — Right along the Oregon border with Nevada, near one of the oldest houses in Malheur County, stands a tribute to veterans who have committed suicide.

A Deschutes County sheriff’s deputy responding to an emergency call on U.S. Highway 97 on Sunday night collided with another driver in a three-car crash that sent the drivers to the hospital.

SALEM — A federal judge compared state Sen. Brian Boquist to the actor Clint Eastwood and a playground bully Tuesday in dismissing the Dallas Republican’s claims that Senate President Peter Co…

SALEM — Despite Oregon’s widespread housing shortage, the amount of housing built in the state during the last decade reached a record low.

SALEM — Oregon Department of Corrections Director Colette Peters has appointed three new people to manage key functions at the department that operates 14 institutions and employs thousands of…

SALEM — State Rep. Lynn Findley, R-Vale, was chosen Monday by county commissioners representing a wide swath of Eastern Oregon to succeed Cliff Bentz, who resigned his post Jan. 1.

REDMOND — At a town hall meeting Saturday, U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., addressed the potential for war following the assassination of Iranian military commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani.…

A 20-year-old Wyoming man is safe after becoming lost in the Badlands east of Bend and spending the night in freezing conditions.

Early season snowfall is lagging again across Oregon heading into the new year, potentially foreshadowing another dry and difficult summer ahead for farmers and ranchers. But as 2019 proved, t…

SALEM — Gagandeep Singh was traveling south on Interstate 5 near Woodburn when smoke started boiling up from under his Volvo tractor-trailer and filling his driver’s cabin.

As the nation heads into the 2020 census, Oregon appears more likely than ever to gain a sixth congressional seat, according to new population estimates.

Witnesses feared the worst moments before a fatal plane crash in August 2017 involving a California man who was on his way to Madras for the total solar eclipse.

Here’s some good news at the tail end of a particularly contentious political year. It’s a story of how a group of Beaverton fifth graders navigated the intense and dramatic legislative sessio…

SALEM — Scientists are forecasting that the Pacific Northwest’s most active volcano will erupt sometime between 2020 and 2024.

SALEM — Summer Warner has one of those jobs crucial to state government, but rarely talked about. 

SALEM — Looking back on the environmental news that dominated headlines in 2019, it’s easy to see that in Oregon and Southwest Washington, three topics — forestry, climate change and fights ov…

Two people were arrested during a human trafficking investigation in southeast Bend on Christmas Eve.

BEAVERTON — Here’s some good news at the tail end of a particularly contentious political year.

SALEM — Secretary of State Bev Clarno has rejected two proposed ballot measures that would force Oregon to transition to carbon-free sources of electricity in the next 25 years.

SALEM — When Janis Puracal began reviewing evidence used to convict Nicholas McGuffin of killing his girlfriend, she recalled how it didn’t add up.

PORTLAND — A new federal spending bill passed by Congress Thursday includes money for a welter of Oregon projects that range from hemp research at Oregon State University to irrigation piping …

SALEM — Consultants hired to lift Oregon’s foster care system out of dysfunction were expected to close up shop Friday. All told, they are expected to walk away with $3.5 million after eight m…

PORTLAND, Ore. — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is defending its renewal of grazing permits for two Oregon ranchers who received a presidential pardon after they were convicted of arson.

SALEM — The Oregon Liquor Control Commission passed a ban Thursday on manufacturing and selling alcohol that’s been mixed with CBD, an inactive ingredient of cannabis, but one that has medicin…

Oregon’s unemployment rate has sunk below 4%, the lowest level in more than four decades, according to state economists.

SALEM — The Oregon State Hospital is suspending all civil admissions until Dec. 27 to prioritize patients ordered by courts to receive competency restoration treatment. 

SALEM — The environmental plan that launched a thousand logging trucks is getting a makeover in the Oregon Senate.

Madras residents will have a chance in the May election to vote for a tax on prepared foods and beverages that could generate $1 million to address the city’s deteriorating transportation system.