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A disagreement between a Portland mother and her children's elementary school over gender identity, parental involvement and what belongs in the classroom has grown into something much larger. It is now a federal constitutional fight. Allison…
According to KTVZ, a Central Oregon drug investigation took a disturbing turn this week when police said it led them to a kidnapping case involving methamphetamine, firearms, a man tied to a tree, and an assault…
Portland has an extinct volcano sitting right in the middle of the city, so naturally, at some point a group of grown men decided the appropriate thing to do with it was build homemade cars and…
If you've spent much time scrolling through Oregon news lately, you've probably seen some version of the same strange story. A reservoir is being lowered. A dam is spilling more water. Fish are dying. A town…
Oregonians hoping to spend Halloween night listening to ghost stories beneath the beam of Heceta Head Lighthouse will have to make other plans this year. The Heceta Head Halloween Haunt scheduled for October 31, 2026, has…
Oregon voters narrowly approved one of the most restrictive gun-control measures in the country in 2022, adding a government permit requirement for people who want to legally purchase a firearm and banning magazines capable of holding…
A quiet campground tucked into Oregon’s Coast Range has been temporarily closed after a mother black bear and her cub began aggressively searching for food and behaving in ways that raised concerns for visitor safety. The…
More than 10 months have passed since Umatilla tribal elder Wesley Dixon Jones disappeared under circumstances that have never been fully explained. His family still doesn't know where he is, no major breakthrough has been publicly…
A four-day effort off the Oregon Coast ended with a young humpback whale finally swimming free after becoming trapped in thousands of feet of fishing gear, but the rescue came with a heartbreaking complication. Marine mammal…
A vegetation fire is burning near the Jasper Road and Mount Vernon Road area of Springfield Wednesday afternoon, with early reports placing the fire at approximately 3 acres. The fire was reported Wednesday, August 12, in…
There was a time when convincing someone to move to Oregon did not require much of a sales pitch. You could point toward the Cascades, the Oregon Coast, the Columbia River Gorge, Bend’s high desert, the…
Wildfire conditions around Mount Hood intensified again Tuesday as the massive Grasshopper Fire pushed farther across the landscape, evacuation levels expanded near Dufur and Tygh Valley, and a second growing fire south of Mount Hood prompted…
