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Brazil’s presidential race is heading to a runoff between left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro after neither candidate secured the more than 50% of valid votes needed to win outright.

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said Sunday his party is on track to win back control of the House, confident Democrats can overcome a fundraising disadvantage and reach deep into conservative areas to flip congressional districts won by President…

Nolo has changed from a strong hurricane to a typhoon after it crossed the International Date Line.

Homeland Nickel, a Canadian company pursuing a nickel mine near Gold Beach, has signed an agreement with a U.S. refiner to buy nickel from the site if the mine opens.

Razor clam harvesting is closed coastwide in Oregon as of Friday Oct. 2.

When Olivia Petter first saw the news about the sexual assault allegations at Cornell University, she was shocked by how familiar parts of the story felt for her.

Providing disability accommodations for powwow participants isn’t very common on the powwow circuit, but one man has made it his mission to bring the practice to dances across North America. “ I saw the need to fulfill something that is genuine to my hear…

William Murphy wears sunglasses and a woven cedar baseball cap over his long gray hair as he stands beside the charcoal pit he’s helped man for 19 years.

Puppet Theater by Yosmel López- How a Cuban puppeteer lost and regained his purpose in search of a better life in Portland.

Braden Atkinson threw five touchdown passes, three to Jesse Legree, and Oregon State defeated Colorado State 56-26 on Saturday in a Pac-12 opener for both teams.

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Every weekend for the past month, the sidewalk in front of the Natural Academy of Sciences has simultaneously felt like a festival, a funeral, and a science fair.

Brazil’s presidential election is a rematch of the country’s bitter 2022 contest — but with a twist.

As the Interstate 5 southbound closures through Portland’s Rose Quarter continue to disrupt metro area commutes, some people are getting to work on two wheels — together.

Beryl Dillman, a resident of Eugene, Ore., just turned 108 years old.

Note: This story contains a description of suicide.

Washington state leaders are warning that Canada’s decision to prioritize an oil pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia could have environmental consequences for the Pacific Northwest.

From Wonder Woman and Lois Lane to Cathy and Veronica Lodge, there have been no shortage of women represented in comics.

Portland’s Alano Club is dedicated to helping people recover from alcoholism, addiction and mental health disorders.

When Kip Silverman bought his first electric car in early 2024 — a brand new Hyundai Kona EV — he was hoping to reduce his carbon footprint and save money on gas.

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Google just put a refrigerator-sized satellite into space, part of a research project the company hopes can pave the way for orbiting AI data centers powered by the sun.

A $10 million bomb appeared on Oregon’s political scene earlier this month.

When Samantha Pennington was about three months pregnant in July 2023, she met with her manager and a human resources representative at the Fred Meyer store in Vancouver, Washington, where she worked.

Communities along Pacific Northwest shorelines could face severe coastal flooding in November, December and January as potentially record-breaking El Niño conditions arrive on top of the year’s highest tides, known as king tides.

Ballots are going out in a couple weeks.

States and cities sued the Trump administration Thursday for repealing rules that limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas.

The head of Portland’s largest chamber of commerce is taking the city to court for hiking the city’s arts tax without voter approval.

Roseburg city councilors voted 6-2 Monday to stop considering two downtown parking lots as homeless campground sites, saying the locations weren’t right.

Students began the fall term at the University of Oregon in Eugene on Monday.

A dentist and other passengers wrestled with a violent copilot.

The woman who alleges she was gang raped by fellow Cornell University students in 2024 clearly stated in her statement to police two years ago that she was sexually assaulted.

The push to kill one kind of owl to save another has reached Oregon’s Elliott State Research Forest.

Between AI chatbots, social media influencers and websites offering medical advice, it can be difficult to parse the vast amount of health information online.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Despite concerns about thunderstorms and gusty winds, SpaceX launched four people on NASA’s Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station.

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The Federal Aviation Administration is betting on artificial intelligence as part of its ambitious overhaul of the nation’s air traffic control system, but its rollout comes at a moment of rising public concern about the technology.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is undergoing a drastic restructuring of its funding model — one that will reduce federal support and require states to shoulder a larger share of the bill.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death Wednesday for a 1995 murder after administering two doses of a lethal drug.

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The powerful El Niño climate pattern brewing in the Pacific Ocean is already influencing extreme weather around the planet.

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

The two candidates vying to represent Washington’s 3rd Congressional District are in a dead heat with less than five weeks to go before a closely watched election that could help determine control of the U.S.

At a time when many rural hospitals are either closing or merging with larger, urban health systems, a group of Oregon hospitals wants to try something different.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot in his car by a federal immigration agent in Texas will remain in custody on charges that he assaulted an officer while trying to evade arrest, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

A gang rape allegation at Cornell University has brought fresh scrutiny of fraternities at the Ivy League school, which has a history of misconduct cases followed by efforts to reform the Greek system.