State officials aim to contact all domestic well users in the Lower Umatilla River Basin by the end of September.

US drug overdose deaths hit a record high in 2022, with some states, including Washington, seeing a significant surge.

The FBI is holding a press conference Wednesday morning as investigators look for potential victims of a violent sex offender, who they say, kidnapped a woman and kept her in a makeshift cinderbloc…

The city is one of 16 cities to receive a franchise, according to an announcement from the league and a report on Tuesday. The league is scheduled to begin play with a 10-game season in April 2024.

Oregon will receive a whopping $688 million to help expand broadband access. Oregon's Broadband Office director shares what the timeline could be for bringing more high-speed internet to the state.

The U.S. Coast Guard said a yacht stolen from Newport on Friday night has been recovered after running aground about seven miles south on the Oregon coast.

A budget airline carrier will begin twice weekly flights out of Salem in October following a years-long effort to bring commercial air service back to the city.

Recent state housing grants include millions for a 120 unit apartment building in northeast Salem, with 24 units for people making less than $17,000 per year.

Terry Heck, a former Boy Scout leader from Salem, was charged July 6 with sex abuse, online corruption of a child and luring a minor.

Newport Mayor Dean Sawyer resigned Monday, three days after OPB revealed he has been posting offensive content in a private Facebook group for current and former law enforcement officers.

Oregon has expanded free health insurance that mirrors Medicaid to all residents who qualify, regardless of their immigration status.

Ice Age evidence shows people lived in Oregon 18,000 years ago, long before the Clovis culture and far earlier than previously thought.

Reports of hate crimes and bias incidents to an Oregon Department of Justice hotline increased by 74% from 2021 to 2022. Last year, the hotline received 2,534 reports of bias incidents and crimes. When extremist rhetoric targeting various groups becomes more common, a new report states, there’s ofte...

Licensed marijuana retail outlets sold over $80 million worth of marijuana and marijuana products in June. There was $80,347,877 in legal marijuana sold in June in Oregon, an increase from the $79 million sold in May and on par with the $80.7 million an d $81 million sold in April and March. This is...

Firefighters worked overnight to quell the Tunnel 5 fire, which spread rapidly due to hot, windy conditions and “extreme terrain," fire officials said.

Sure, such well-loved movies as "The Goonies" and "Stand By Me" have filmed in Oregon, but let's not forget some other locally shot films that bombed with critics.

Six months into the pioneering state policy, regulatory costs are falling and projects are springing to life.

A first round of electric buses are close to hitting the streets, while new federal money will allow Cherriots to buy five more.

Gov. Tina Kotek failed to convince a majority of legislative Democrats to support extending city urban growth boundaries to allow more housing to be built.

Todd Anthony Bobeda, 46, of Dallas, is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday. He previously was a counselor and coach at South Salem High School.

Oregon lawmakers last week gave final approval to a bill that ends the state's ban on self-service gas pumps, a prohibition that has been in place since 1951.

Arizona, Virginia, Oregon lead the way with increases of more than 40 percent.

Mayor Matt Diaz this week faced the public for the first time since posting an anti-LGBTQ+ meme on Facebook.

With the Oregon Legislature's passage of House Bill 3127 on Thursday, the state is poised to join the federal government and 27 other states in banning the popular video app TikTok from state owned cell phones and computers.

Ranked Choice Voting is a way to fix our broken election system by giving voters more power and more choices.

Rapid Response Bio Clean–a company contracted by the city of Portland to clean up and remove homeless camp sites–has been ordered to pay for items taken from an encampment during a sweep in 2020 that were never stored properly or returned to the owner. Rapid Response is the primary contractor the ci...

The state is one of just two that prevents many drivers from fueling up. That would end under a bill headed to Gov. Tina Kotek.

During the pandemic lots of people relocated from big cities to small, rural places. In Waitsburg, Wash., some say that's boosted the economy.

Portland-based Umpqua Bank, which recently merged with Columbia Bank, said it's found no indication that customer data has been compromised.

(STACKER) — Unemployment rates, while significantly lower than the alarming pandemic peak of 14.7% experienced in April 2020, remain a subject of concern, though experts’ views on a pot…

City officials reached a settlement with Clifford Eiffler-Rodriguez three months after he sued the city, alleging police officers shot him at close range with pepper balls and “less than lethal” launchers.

Democrats agreed to modify portions of bills Republicans objected to in order to end a walkout that had dragged on for over a month.