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After a federal court ruled earlier this year that the Bonneville Power Administration must take additional steps to protect fish populations passing dams along the Columbia and Snake rivers, the region’s hydropower giant says it’s preparing for a rate hi…

A federal appeals court Wednesday threw out a previous court order requiring that Oregon stop housing transgender women in men’s prisons.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Christian Castro made his first appearance in state court in Minneapolis today in connection with the shooting of a Venezuelan man last January during a surge that brought thousands of federal agents to the Twin…

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A federal judge ruled Thursday that President Trump cannot tear down the Kennedy Center – at least without 30 days’ notice – just hours after Trump renewed his threat to demolish the arts center.

The Portland Book Festival will return bigger than ever this fall to celebrate storytelling in its many forms.

The election is less than seven weeks away, and prognosticators across the nation are expecting a strong night for Democrats.

Oregon’s Medicaid program overpaid up to $4.1 million to local healthcare organizations across the state after state officials failed to account for hundreds of duplicate identification codes for enrollees, putting federal funding for the program at risk,…

Oregon’s fight against corporate control of medicine moved onto the national stage on Wednesday as U.S.

Washington County Chair Kathryn Harrington announced on Thursday she plans to step back from her role leading the county board of commissioners but remain on the commission.

President Trump has proposed cutting the funding for cleaning up the radioactive waste at Hanford by $400 million, and the House Appropriations Committee proposed even bigger cuts.

Oregon’s unemployment rate went down a tenth of a percentage point in August, according to the latest Oregon Employment Department report, dropping the state’s jobless rate to 5.1%.

Washington state has fined a paper mill in Port Townsend $734,000 for allegedly sending polluted wastewater into Puget Sound.

The sons of a 54-year-old man stabbed to death by a Clark County sheriff’s deputy in May 2025 have filed a $27 million tort claim against the county.

OpenAI has disclosed six reports of “unexpected or concerning” behavior in artificial-intelligence models as the debate on AI safety becomes increasingly heated.

Human rights experts commissioned by the U.N.’s top human rights body say they have found “reasonable grounds” to believe the United States committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran, including on a school in the southern city of Minab.

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For the first time since the explosive rise of artificial intelligence and spread of political tensions around the data centers, researchers in Portland have quantified the size and scope of the industry in Oregon.

Oregon’s largest bighorn sheep herd is at risk of losing hundreds of sheep to a deadly respiratory outbreak.

How can older adults with mobility or vision impairments safely evacuate during an emergency?

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A Washington County leader’s obscene gesture toward a fellow commissioner has prompted widespread backlash, particularly among Oregon elected leaders of color.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Mike Johnson is closing up the House early, sending lawmakers home Wednesday to campaign for the midterm elections after what he claims is the most productive Congress in decades.

Portland police Chief Bob Day says he’s lost trust in Councilor Mitch Green after reviewing his past statements about the city’s police officers.

About 12.5 trillion tons (11.3 trillion metric tons) of ice from glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979, which is enough frozen water to stack ice 5 feet (1.5 meters) deep across the continental United States, according to a major sci…

Fears about out-of-control artificial intelligence and suggestions to hit the brakes on the technology’s development aren’t new, but they have recently found new life as warnings about rogue AI systems causing mayhem grow louder.

During the 2020 Labor Day fires in Oregon, Sierra Lindsey Kos saw firsthand the effects of climate change.

Kosovo’s former President Hashim Thaci was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Wednesday after being found guilty of war crimes committed during the war for independence from Serbia in 1998-99.

It’s been a challenging year for snow-starved Oregon ski areas, but leaders of two nonprofit destinations say they’re making moves to survive long term.

Five-hundred colleges and universities in the U.S. now share one alarming distinction: At least 40% of recent students who borrowed federal loans aren’t paying them back.

There are 21.4 million women in the U.S. who need subsidized birth control living in a county somewhere with limited access.

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The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate Wednesday for the first time since 2023 in an effort to quell stubbornly high inflation, and the central bank also signaled that another rate hike could occur later this year.

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An Oregon man accused of killing five women in the Portland area has been charged in connection with the death of a sixth woman.

In a rare move, the state of Oregon reversed its decision to fire its chief human resources officer — who said she was trying to hold public officials accountable — and will instead offer her a new role at another state agency, give her back pay and cover…

PassinArt began in 1982 and is the oldest continuously operating Black theater in Oregon.

The Kennedy Center’s board of directors on Tuesday voted to close the historic arts center in a meeting that began just minutes after a federal judge once again stopped a plan to put President Trump’s name on the building.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday proposed making Canada the European Union’s first associate member, a striking overture as U.S.

The Federal Reserve is widely expected to raise interest rates Wednesday, in a show of its determination to attack stubborn inflation.

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Last week, Portland State University hosted its first ever Indigenous Foods Summit.

The Port of Bandon has agreed to return a quarter-acre memorial site in Old Town to the Coquille Indian Tribe, transferring ownership of land where a Coquille village stood.

Ralph Bloemers has spent over two decades working in and around wildfire science and technology.

Scientists from Mexico, the United States, Canada, Russia and elsewhere gathered in person and virtually last week at Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport for a landmark symposium on the uncertain future of gray whales.

Dan Lavey had just passed Roseburg when he saw his first hint of trouble.

Antarctic krill are the lifeblood of the South Pole.

The average American family made more money last year than in 2024, while the number of people living in poverty fell slightly, according to a new report from the Census Bureau.

Oregon’s race for governor remains extremely tight, according to the second poll to emerge in the contest to date.