There are places along the Oregon Coast that don’t just feed you — they stay with you. The kind of places where the windows fog up from the fryer, where rain taps lightly on the glass, where the…
CORVALLIS, OR — In what housing experts are calling “a troubling but financially sound decision,” a 20-year-old college student has reportedly moved into a construction-site porta-potty near campus after calculating that it was still significantly cheaper than renting…
Oregon progressives are once again pushing one of the most extreme ballot measures the state has seen in years, and this time it is closer to reality than many people realize. What began as a fringe sounding proposal…
There is something about Oregon’s high desert that changes you. Maybe it is the silence stretching for miles. Maybe it is the way sagebrush bends in the wind like it has seen everything and is not impressed. Or…
According to Oregon State Police, a single-vehicle crash just east of Oakridge claimed the lives of two young women in the early hours of February 8. Troopers were called out around 1:30 a.m. to milepost 40, where an…
It happened in the middle of the day. Not late at night. Not in some deserted alley. But in a busy Costco parking lot in Salem, with people around and normal life happening just a few feet away.…
If you felt that familiar knot in your stomach when Oregon’s lawmakers officially returned to Salem, you’re not imagining it. For gun owners across the state, the start of a new legislative session rarely signals calm. More often,…
Sixth most unpopular governor in America Alright, let’s drop the polite, laminated-newsroom tone and call this what it is. According to new polling from Morning Consult, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek now ranks as the sixth most unpopular governor…
Early Saturday morning, the Oregon coast woke up to a heavy and sobering sight. A 46-foot fin whale washed ashore just north of Sunset Beach Recreation Site, near Warrenton, sometime around 6:30 a.m. According to Seaside Aquarium, the…
There’s something that happens when you stand next to a tree that has been alive longer than almost everything you know. It quiets you. Not in a dramatic, movie-montage way, but in a subtle, grounding way, like your…
PORTLAND, OR — State and local officials held a brief but tense press conference Wednesday morning to address growing public concern over a bright yellow thing that has remained visible in the sky for a third consecutive day.…
PORTLAND, OR — After years of observation, analysis, and quietly judgmental note-taking, researchers have formally admitted they still do not understand why Portland residents look the way they do. The announcement came Tuesday from a multidisciplinary research team…
