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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State officials nationwide are focusing on rising gas and diesel prices tied to the war in Iran, offering gas tax holidays and other measures to ease costs as affordability remains a top voter concern in the critical midterm election…

On Thursday, Oct. 1, about 14,000 Washington state residents will no longer be eligible for Medicaid, or Apple Health.

Democrat Chris Beck says protecting rural health care and lowering household costs are central to his challenge against Republican Rep.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Oregon have been meeting in recent weeks to discuss the potential to collaborate on a climate policy that just seven years ago drove them apart, and drove some Senate Republicans across state lines.

Oregonians ranked maintaining and preserving highways and bridges and improving safety as the top priorities they think the Oregon Department of Transportation should focus on as it looks to resolve a $200 million budget gap in the 2027-29 budget cycle.

Health officials in Oregon anticipate a very active season for respiratory viruses during the remainder of the year and are urging people to prepare by getting vaccinated.

The Trump administration has made last-minute changes to key absentee-voting forms for U.S. citizens living abroad, raising concerns about confusing some overseas voters during this year’s midterm elections.

Throughout 2025, more than 50 local artists made small circular pieces of art that fit into the empty coin vaults of downtown Eugene parking meters.

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New poll is the largest nonpartisan gauge of likely voters to date in this election cycle Sept. 30, 2026 – In a state that hasn’t elected a Republican governor in more than four decades, Oregon voters are roughly split between incumbent Democratic Gov.

In a video posted on social media, the assistant director of the FBI’s cyber division, Brett Leatherman, vowed Tuesday to hunt down the members of a cybercriminal group going by the name of ShinyHunters, the same group that last week claimed to steal reams

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The woman who calls 911 says there’s a diabetic teen boy in distress, but when police and paramedics arrive at the house in Mesa, Arizona she comes outside to say he’s just “pretending that he’s dead on the floor” because he wants attention.

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The future of a new homeless shelter in Grants Pass is in question after the shelter and the organization providing wraparound services ended their working agreement.

Beginning about 14,000 years ago, a wave of humans crossed into the Americas via a land bridge running from modern-day Russia to Alaska.

Mazama Energy, a Texas-based geothermal company, has recently secured more than $135 million to dig deeper and harvest heat for renewable energy.

Producer’s notebook: OPB producer-reporter Emily Hamilton, who grew up in the Portland area, discusses the significance of learning about the depth of women’s sports history in Portland and the important role sports have played in her life.

The Major League Baseball playoffs began on Tuesday.

Worries about rising costs, high taxes, entrenched homelessness and poor leadership are major factors for Oregonians — and helping drive a neck-and-neck governor’s race this year that shows no sign of breaking decisively for either candidate.

Several years ago, Portland attorney Patrick Sherwood’s client reported to police that she was assaulted as a 17-year-old.

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The shooting of a 23-year-old Milwaukie man nearly two years ago has led one local government to settle with him and his family while another may soon find itself in federal court.

Officials have identified the man shot and killed by police last week as 39-year-old Eddie Brandon Todd Campbell of Portland.

The Department of Homeland Security has tapped $20 million to pay for the campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump that have drawn widespread criticism from Republicans and Democrats as a blatant misuse of taxpayer dollars that likely runs afo…

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has released more than $14 million in funding for major renovations to Astoria’s largest hospital, Oregon lawmakers announced in a press release Monday.

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Federal agencies and local partners raided an alleged drug trafficking organization in the Rogue Valley last week.

A new data center campus could soon be coming to federal land near Hermiston in Eastern Oregon.

On Friday, the National Archives Museum prepared to welcome President Trump and the Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

The torch relay for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics will begin in Atlanta, home of the last U.S.

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Three news outlets that President Donald Trump abruptly banished from White House grounds this month asked a federal court to block the action until the case is resolved, saying the administration has “persisted in unpredictably and inconsistently impleme…

OpenAI said Monday it was delaying the release of a new artificial intelligence model out of security concerns voiced by its researchers, the latest in the company’s effort to decelerate the pace of the technology’s advance.

Christa Pike was 18 when she killed a classmate in a jealous rage and became one of the youngest women to be sent to death row.

WASHINGTON — The Protect College Sports Act, a bill aiming to rein in what its supporters call a “Wild West” era of college athletics, cleared its most significant hurdle yet on Monday when the Senate passed it by a bipartisan vote of 77-22.

Jessica Mullin had a strange feeling when she first visited a stretch of the Klamath Basin, near Tule Lake on the California-Oregon border.

Washington state is widely known for industries like tech, agriculture, and aerospace.

Tape Op is an independently published magazine about the art and science of recording music founded 30 years ago and edited by Portland music producer and studio owner Larry Crane.

A course at Portland Community College is currently being taught where students use styrofoam, clays, paints and their imaginations to create “haunted” charcuterie boards adorned with fake moldy cheeses, unappetizing crackers and rancid-looking slices of…

Major League Baseball has reached out to the federal government about the possibility of one day staging a game in western Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park, an idea quickly met with resistance from environmental groups and others.

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The Portland Trail Blazers enter this season with one of the league’s more perplexing roster questions: how will three ball-dominant players gel?

Classified workers at Oregon’s seven public universities have reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract with the state’s higher education institutions.

Mariners fans listened extra closely Sunday as Rick Rizzs, the man known for his “holy smokes” and “goodbye baseball” catchphrases, said farewell to the broadcast booth he’s occupied for four decades.

In a closely watched decision, Washington’s largest union of state government workers has ratified a new two-year contract that provides no pay raises but avoids takeaways on health care and other benefits.

A group of political candidates, volunteers and elected officials crowded into the Hillsboro headquarters of the Democratic Party on a cloudy Saturday this month with a shared vision: shake up local Democratic politics.

Members of Oregon’s NBA team gathered with the media on Monday to talk hoops as the team’s 57th season gets underway next month — but Trail Blazers fans are already anxious about more than the team’s playoff chances.