About 50 Oregon towns and counties will decide in the Nov. 8 election whether to opt back into the marijuana business.
Oct 06

By Jes Burns, OPB/EarthFix
A project in Oregon’s Klamath County is aiming to complement renewable energy development in the Northwest by creating a giant water battery.
Two cases are causing state and federal agencies to confront questions over gender neutral IDs for nonbinary people.
Jun 11

By Corinne Segal
An Oregon circuit court has ruled that a resident can change their legal gender to "nonbinary," a gender identity that is neither male nor female.
Jun 06

By Laura Santhanam
The nation's first automatic voter registration system may have added about 51,000 new voters since January for this year's presidential election, a rate which far outpaces previous registrations since 2008.
Jun 04

By Michael D. Regan
An oil train that derailed and burst into flames along Oregon's Columbia River Gorge on Friday sent toxic smoke high into the air, prompting officials to evacuate the nearby town of Mosier.
May 17

By Ken Thomas, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders has won Oregon's presidential primary and battled Hillary Clinton to a razor-thin margin in Kentucky.
May 16

Although the deep divides within the GOP have taken center stage in this election cycle, the Democrats have seen their own fair share of schism. As front-runner Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders prepare to compete for Kentucky and Oregon…
May 04

By Nsikan Akpan
Two years after a wasting outbreak, baby purple sea stars are back in record numbers along the Oregon coast, but is the epidemic truly over?…
Feb 08

By Eric Tucker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Loretta Lynch plans to visit six cities in the coming months to highlight police departments she sees as role models for law enforcement.
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