Just this year, three gray whales have been found off the Oregon Coast, and 14 have been found off the coast of Washington — it's a higher level of early-season mortality than researchers have ever ...

The former Happy Valley mayor served as America’s labor boss for more than a year before a mounting scandal pushed her out of ...

Democrat Janelle Bynum flips Oregon’s most high-profile US House district Janelle Bynum, an Oregon legislator from Happy Valley, declared victory Friday morning. Responding to residents proved ...

A sign with the name of Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, is posted outside of the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement building in Portland as demonstrators ...

A key federal appeals court heard arguments this week related to the use of teargas by federal officials at the ICE building.

Dirk VanderHart covers Oregon politics and government for OPB. Before barging onto the radio in 2018, he spent more than a decade as a newspaper reporter—much of that time reporting on city government ...

It was money meant to offer stability amid economic turbulence. Now it might be as good as gone, after congressional Republicans passed a massive tax cut and spending bill last month. Without ...

Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB Three senior Democrats in the Oregon state Senate received emailed threats Thursday morning – false claims that bombs were lodged in their home mailboxes. Among those to ...

Local journalism across the country and the Pacific Northwest has been under intense financial pressure for several decades, forcing many local newspapers and other media outlets to close or shrink ...

A sign outside Lakeview, the seat of Lake County, Oregon. The Lake County District Attorney announced he would resign due to ...

But where these three challenges point to a shared problem, new research highlights the potential for improvement. An analysis by ECONorthwest, commissioned by education advocacy group Stand for ...

People have until Monday to comment on a Trump administration proposal to drastically limit public input on logging in Oregon and Washington. The Trump administration has proposed drastically limiting ...