On May 12, 1999, Ward, then a Curry County sheriff’s patrol deputy, responded to a call about a man who had fatally shot himself in an RV in Brookings, the county’s largest city. An Oregon state ...

Oregon was the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday in 1887. Oddly, lawmakers selected the first Saturday in June. Four other states created the holiday later that year. Labor Day was ...

Since 2020, only 1% of the land damaged by wildfire in Oregon is owned by the state. The bulk of the land that burns every year is federal, managed by either the federal Bureau of Land Management or ...

Bob Packwood was an awkward and epic contradiction, a champion of political compromise with a fatally compromised personal life. He died June 6 in a care facility of natural causes at age 93, ...

MAUPIN, Ore. — Alysia Littleleaf and her husband, Elke, make their living as fishing guides on the lower Deschutes River, near the Warm Springs Reservation. A major tributary of the Columbia River, ...

WOODBURN — Tom Fessler and his son, Kyle, are trying to do the right thing, but the right thing is about to get a lot more expensive. Inside Woodburn Nursery & Azaleas’ sprawling greenhouses—they ...

A new scientific review says the strategy that Portland General Electric and the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs developed to return fish to the upper Deschutes River isn’t working. As OJP ...

Thirteen former Oregon Youth Authority staff have submitted sworn statements describing years of sexual abuse by a longtime agency physician and accusing OYA leaders of knowing about the abuse and ...

When President Donald Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” into law on July 4, every hospital CEO in Oregon got heartburn. That’s because the bill focused heavily on cuts to Medicaid, the health ...