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Authorities say the body of a woman killed after raging flood waters swept a car from a grocery store parking lot has been recovered hours after searchers recovered her son's body from an Oregon creek.
About 30,000 Oregon households in the Portland metro area are without power because of power lines knocked down by a winter storm that moved in overnight.
Haunted by regret for allowing two men to be executed more than a decade ago, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber now says it'll never happen again on his watch.
Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber has imposed a moratorium on the death penalty for the remainder of his term, saying he's morally opposed to the capital punishment and has long regretted allowing two men to be executed in the 1990s.
Oregon was first in the nation to have all residents vote by mail. Now it's pioneering another idea: vote by iPad.
The promise of lucrative tax breaks helped persuade Facebook to build a data center in one of Oregon's most economically depressed counties. Now, the state and the company are in a dispute over how much Facebook may owe in property taxes, and the social networking giant fears it could be taxed on intangible assets like the value of its powerful brand.
Two small planes collided near an Oregon state park Tuesday, sending one aircraft crashing to the ground and killing at least one of its occupants, authorities said.
Cody Myers loved three things: God, his family and music. In that order.
Federal, state and local police are hunting for a boyfriend-girlfriend duo suspected in the murder of the male suspect's stepmother as well as the disappearance of his father in Washington state and of a teenager in Oregon days later.
More than 40 major companies have agreed to double the number of engineering internships they offer in a bid to help universities train more people for jobs that require math and science skills, President Barack Obama's jobs and competitiveness council announced on Wednesday.
Electric car drivers will get a charge out of a block-long stretch of a downtown Portland street that's been dubbed "Electric Avenue," and it may also help the automotive industry and others make important decisions as the use of electric cars evolves.
Native Americans aren't getting the health care they need because services for them are vastly underfunded, the director of the federal Indian Health Service said Friday.
Former Sen. Mark Hatfield, an outspoken critic of war whose liberal views often put him at odds with fellow Republicans but endeared him to Oregonians, died Sunday. He was 89.
Dennis Glaser's farm should be abuzz with activity, with his tractors in the field and three John Deere combines churning out premium Oregon grass seed.
The Oregon House voted Monday to make it illegal to knowingly sell a product intended to help another person commit suicide, a move that targets companies selling so-called suicide kits that can be bought on the Internet.
Who says government has to be boring?
In a state where men have legally strolled the streets in nothing but tennis shoes and Portland hosts an annual naked bike ride, nudists appeared at the Oregon Legislature on Monday — clothed — to ask lawmakers not to let their lifestyle get wrapped up in an effort to regulate strip clubs.
U.S. Rep. David Wu, who is facing calls for his resignation over reports of erratic behavior, says he was once had a bad reaction to common mental health drugs and had to be hospitalized.
A photo of Rep. David Wu wearing a tiger costume and other unusual revelations about his mental health are increasing pressure on the seven-term Oregon Democrat to step down.
Don Whetsell buried his grandfather last year, finally laying him to rest 60 years after his death.
A Bulgarian man was sentenced Thursday to two years and a day in prison for stealing the identity of an Ohio boy who was kidnapped and killed at age 3.
A Bulgarian man who lived for 14 years as an American citizen is scheduled to be sentenced for stealing the identity of an Ohio boy who was kidnapped and killed in 1982 at age 3.
It's noon. Juanita Nichol strolls into the Pizza Peddler and orders the Nichol pizza, a house specialty dreamed up by her family — pepperoni, easy on the sauce.
An Oregon jury will begin hearing arguments Thursday before deciding whether a father and son should be sentenced to death for planting a bomb that killed two police officers inside a bank.
The crumbling Oregon State Hospital had toxic paint, asbestos and a leaky roof — an enduring symbol of the psychiatric neglect portrayed in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," filmed at the 127-year-old facility.
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