State

Newly released Crook County Fair Board records are providing substantially more detail about a previously undisclosed Funding Committee that met privately to discuss how Crook County should spend $1 million in state funding for horse-racing facilities

On recent days in Prineville, smoke from the nearby Rowe Creek Complex wildfire feels “thick enough to cut with a knife,” said Beverly Friesen, an 81-year-old grandmother.

A faction of Multnomah County Democrats proposed a resolution July 30 calling on U.S. Rep. Janelle Bynum (D-Ore.) to resign her seat and drop out of the November general election. 

Editors, publishers, reporters and journalism advocates from across Oregon gathered last week at Central Oregon Community College for the Fund for Oregon Rural Journalism's (FORJ) fourth annual Rural and Small-Town Journalism Conference

As destructive wildfires continue to burn across Oregon and the West, Oregon U.S. Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden are joining a bipartisan group of senators urging federal regulators to stop the expansion of prediction markets that allow people to wager on the course and impacts of wildfires.

A Lane County Sheriff's deputy has been arrested and faces multiple federal child exploitation charges after investigators allege he exchanged sexually explicit messages and images with children and persuaded minors to produce child sexual abuse material.

Last month, Oregon agreed to pay $49 million to COVID-afflicted state prison inmates. It’s the state’s biggest payout ever—and underscores an underlying liability that is far larger.

Opposition to Oregon's Initiative Petition 28 continues to grow across political lines, with the Wallowa County Democratic Central Committee becoming the latest Democratic organization to formally oppose the proposal.

Kate Sinner, a director at Business Oregon with connections throughout state government, was selected Wednesday to take over as the executive director at Travel Oregon, the state’s tourism promotion agency.

Christine Drazan finished her quest to become the Republican nominee for governor amid towering stacks of wine barrels in rural Clackamas County on election night.