Welcome to our Oregon News category, where we bring you the latest and most relevant news stories from the beautiful state of Oregon. From the stunning Pacific coastline to the rugged Cascade Mountains, Oregon is home to a wealth of natural beauty, diverse communities, and exciting cultural events.
A new federal lawsuit is challenging Oregon’s restrictions on visiting gun owners, opening another legal fight while the state’s long-running dispute over Measure 114 remains unresolved. Filed September 11, the case questions whether Oregon can exclude certain...
A Clackamas County family is urgently asking Oregonians to help find 16-year-old Emmalynn “Emma” Slaughter, who has been missing since the early morning hours of Sunday, September 13, 2026. According to a missing-person flyer being circulated by Emma’s family,...
Louie paced endlessly. Nasha was found soaked in urine in a dark den. Lyla desperately wanted to get away. Bently had been declawed and lived with severe arthritis. More than a year after their rescue from Oregon’s West Coast Game Park Safari, their lives look almost...
On any given morning in Oregon, thousands of us pull out of our driveways without thinking much about the trail we leave behind. We head across Springfield for groceries, merge onto Beltline for work, drive into Portland for an appointment, or take Highway 101 simply...
A Coos County judge on Tuesday sentenced Brian Scott Tenney, the former owner of West Coast Game Park Safari near Bandon, to 90 months in Oregon Department of Corrections custody—7½ years—in a case that began with a multi-agency investigation in May 2025. The sentence...
If you waited out the summer Multnomah crush, Tuesday, September 8, 2026 is the first full day without the Multnomah Falls (I-84) Timed Use Permit. The Recreation.gov season ran daily from May 22 through September 7, 2026, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., for private vehicles...
A 93-year-old woman in Kirkland, Washington, heard enough banging upstairs to make anyone’s imagination run wild. Was someone breaking in? Had a window been forced open? Was this the beginning of a true-crime podcast nobody asked for? When police arrived, they found...
A recent rescue on the California volcano is a sharp reminder that a polished answer from a chatbot is not the same thing as a sound mountain plan. Three novice hikers from Roseville, California, were rescued after becoming stranded during a Mount Shasta climb,...
When people on the West Coast start talking about the Big One, the conversation usually runs straight to California and the San Andreas Fault. It is the famous one. The one most of us grew up seeing in disaster movies and hearing about on the news. But Oregon has its...
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One of Oregon’s most haunting unsolved missing-person cases is getting renewed national attention as part of a new true-crime series from Freeform and ABC News Studios. The disappearance of Kyron Horman, the Portland-area second grader who vanished from Skyline...
There are plenty of reasons to wander an Oregon beach in late October. The Pacific gets moodier, fall storms begin rolling in with more frequency, and those gray skies and crashing waves somehow make a warm drink and a long walk on the sand feel even better. But this...