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A Republican Wasco County Commissioner who helped usher in two decades of Google data center development in The Dalles is running campaign ads painting his Democratic opponent for an Oregon House seat as an underhanded supporter of corporate tax breaks for

TWIN FALLS, Idaho — The floor-to-ceiling windows in Rick Naerebout’s office afford a sweeping view of the stunning 500-foot-deep, quarter-mile-wide Snake River Canyon.

The plot of land is no bigger than 400 square feet, tucked behind the Oregon Food Bank on an acre of land known as Unity Farms.

In 2025, OPB’s visual journalists shared the moments that inspired, delighted and defined life in Oregon and Southwest Washington over the past year in thousands of photos and videos.

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New York prosecutors say they are reopening an investigation into an alleged rape case from 2024 that involved Cornell University students.

This story was originally published by The Lund Report, an independent nonprofit health news organization based in Oregon.

More than 2,800 zoo and aquarium professionals will gather in Portland this week for the annual Association of Zoos and Aquariums conference.

SpaceX has launched its Starship spacecraft from the company’s Starbase facility from Boca Chica Beach in Texas, on a critical test flight that sent the 171-foot-tall vehicle into orbit for the first time.

Each year, Congress passes laws which allocate money to the federal government’s various programs and agencies.

On a recent Sunday at Brentwood Baptist Church in Houston, James Talarico stood at the pulpit.

South African police said Monday that another body of a woman was discovered in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, bringing the total number of female victims recently found in the area to 11.

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Imagine a place where the smells of barbacoa and leather from cowboy boots waft through the air, where the sounds of cumbia playing, vendors making aguas frescas and conversations in Spanish carry through the aisles.

Public school districts across the region are facing dropping enrollment, budget cuts, and other financial strains.

As tech titans warned an AI-weary world that their own advanced systems could endanger humanity, the question emerged: What do they have to gain?

Hurricane Nolo edged further away from the Hawaiian Islands on Sunday as major Hurricane Polo bore down on Mexico’s southern Baja California peninsula with a threat of storm surge, high winds and heavy rains.

University of Oregon researchers have a new study that says the mobile crisis counseling service CAHOOTS — Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets — diverted far more calls from the Eugene Police Department than first thought.

With a major college sports reform bill on the brink of a milestone in Congress, some former athletes have a special place in the debate: the handful of U.S.

Southern California suspended linebacker Desman Stephens for one game Sunday for his dangerous late hit on Oregon quarterback Dante Moore and his celebration afterward.

Iran’s president gave a rare speech in New York by a country at war with the United States on Wednesday, a day after President Trump threatened from the same podium to “annihilate” Iran.

U.K. police said Sunday that five men arrested in the middle of the night near an air base used by the United States during its war against Iran are being held on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act that appeared to involve three trucks.

Pacific Northwest Amtrak Cascades passengers will get the first chance in the country to ride the railroad’s new Airo trains when they debut Sept. 30.

Preston Judd scored two goals, Eduard Löwen added a goal and an assist, and the San Jose Earthquakes beat the Portland Timbers 3-1 on Saturday night to extend their unbeaten streak to six games.

Braden Atkinson threw three touchdown passes and AJ Newberry ran for 111 yards and a score to help Oregon State beat UTEP 33-7 on Saturday night.

Dylan Raiola passed for 289 yards and two touchdowns after star Oregon quarterback Dante Moore’s frightening injury, leading the 20th-ranked Ducks to a stirring 41-27 victory over No. 12 Southern California on Saturday night.

A spate of mass shootings in three major South African cities killed nearly 40 people this week, with such incidents increasingly common in a country already known for its high crime rates.

Economic activity from the World Cup resulted in $889 million for Seattle and King County, according to a new report from Visit Seattle, a nonprofit that promotes the city and county.

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Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read joined Coos County Clerk Julie Brecke at a town hall meeting in North Bend Thursday, where they urged voters to use ballot drop boxes for the November election and announced a new drop box expected to open in Charlest…

Twenty-two-year-old Portland Fire guard Carla Leite arrived in Portland last May relatively unknown.

A popular 92-foot waterfall formerly at risk of being closed to the public is closer to becoming a new state recreation area after the Oregon Parks and Recreation Commission signed off on buying two Marion County properties.

As clickbait-y as that headline may be, it’s a serious question — how did the exchange of ingredients and methods for preparing them 500 years ago impact the way we eat today?

Portland’s 2024 City Council election was like nothing the city had ever experienced: 12 open seats for a new legislative body split into four districts, 98 candidates and a brand-new ranked choice voting system.

More than two years of construction and $131 million later, a historic building on the Washington state Capitol campus is reopening.

It wasn’t a debate, but Democratic Gov.

Oregon lawmakers took action earlier this year to regulate the use of an increasingly bipartisan focus of anti-surveillance advocates nationwide: Flock cameras.

The goal is to provide stability for older people in the region who can’t afford housing in the region’s escalating rental market.

Members of the Central Oregon Community College Faculty Forum voted nearly unanimously on Wednesday to authorize a strike.

The Portland Police Bureau reported a “critical incident” in Southeast Portland on Thursday afternoon.

Menopause is one of the biggest transitions women go through and, for some, the most difficult.

We have just over a month left before the November general election.

On Friday, Portlanders will tumble outta bed and stumble to the kitchen with a little bit of Dolly in their hearts.

Younger voters and voters of color in Washington state see their ballots challenged for signature issues more often than their older and white counterparts.

Except for one failed experiment and a handful of curious wayfarers, sea otters have not lived in Oregon’s coastal waters since they were hunted to extinction for their fur more than a century ago.

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Starbucks plans to close 250 North American stores later this week.

Sign up for alerts on breaking news and exclusive reporting from NPR A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to temporarily restore access to the three media organizations banned from covering White House events last week by President…

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Proficiency rates for Oregon students are slowly improving on state standardized tests, according to new data released Thursday by the Oregon Department of Education.