Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler announced a new gun violence initiative last week that is big on ambition but short on specifics. Shareef Khatib, who spent 13 years working in various roles at two of the top USAID contract recipients on overseas development projects overseeing U.S. foreign aid, will take the helm of Portland’s latest gun violence reduction initiative, a yet to be defined $2.4 million program.
Gresham restaurateur Justin Hwang is the new party chair. Oregon Republicans have had three different leaders since March.
Oregon's strict law regulating health care mergers may keep religiously affiliated health systems that do not provide abortion care from expanding
A company based in the Netherlands wants to host psychedelic retreats from a historic resort southeast of Ashland. The choice will be up to Jackson County voters.
An official with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the case surrounding a dead orca floating off the Oregon Coast has been closed, without any successful retrieval of the mammal’s body.
If passed, the measure would prevent lawmakers with 10 or more unexcused absences from seeking re-election.
Kotek said on Twitter she was resting and taking it easy for a few days and that she's grateful to be vaccinated and boosted, KOIN-TV reported.
After 27 years, the immigrant civil rights group Causa will be dissolving. Causa’s board of directors made the decision to start dissolving the organization last week, according to an email from Causa’s board.
Southern Resident killer whales, whose range is from Northern California to Canada, have not had enough food for several years, which could affect their already small numbers.
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Police in Richmond, Virginia, say they thwarted a planned Fourth of July mass shooting after receiving a tip that led to arrests and the seizure of multiple guns.
A new report on the Uvalde elementary school massacre in Texas says a police officer had a chance to open fire on the gunman but missed it while waiting for permission to shoot.
The White House said President Biden and Vice President Harris spoke with Cherelle Griner on Wednesday, as more of the WNBA star's supporters publicly petition him to do more to secure her release.
The man charged with killing seven people at an Independence Day parade confessed to police that he unleashed a hail of bullets from a rooftop in suburban Chicago and then fled to the Madison, Wisconsin, area, where he contemplated shooting up an event there.
The Biden administration is looking to help foreign manufacturers of baby formula stay on the U.S. market for the long term.
The scientists aboard the research vessel Thompson are trying to answer complicated questions about what makes volcanos, specifically the Axial Seamount, tick. But sometimes the most serious scientific inquiry can face "crabotage."
A conversation with the citizens of Arlington, Oregon, who are taking the fight against these giant pests into their own hands.
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe vs. Wade, advocates and state leaders in Oregon and Washington are scrambling to figure out a response. OPB political reporters Dirk VanderHart and Lauren Dake and health reporter Amelia Templeton examine what the decision means and what fights are coming next.
