Emily Cureton Cook

With all 435 U.S. House seats on the ballot, one Oregon district is an especially contested battleground.

As more wells go dry, a developer in Oregon's fastest growing region maneuvers for water rights.

Officials shot the cat after it attracted the attention of armed residents south of Bend.

At hearings scheduled next week, U.S. House lawmakers plan to reveal further findings of a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. But the 2021 insurrection was in-step with extremist actions long tolerated, and even encouraged, by some Oregon Republicans.

A presidential endorsement and a deluge of campaign advertising didn't protect U.S. Rep Kurt Schrader from an insurgent challenger on the cusp of historic victory.

Bend city councilors approved new zoning to draw homeless shelters, but not without making some concessions.

In two contested district attorney races, voters are leaning towards the incumbent in early returns; new prosecutors will take their seats in four uncontested races.

In a potential major upset, Democratic U.S. Representative Kurt Schrader could lose his seat in Congress, if early primary election returns hold. In the Republican primary, meanwhile, former Happy Valley Mayor Lori Chavez-DeRemer held a slight lead over Jimmy Crumpacker.

“To my fellow councilors, I say, ‘Good Luck,’ Mayor Sally Russell wrote in her statement.

In Oregon and Southwest Washington on Tuesday, hundreds of people gathered in Portland, Vancouver, Bend and Eugene in protest of a leaked U.S. Supreme Court opinion suggesting Roe v. Wade could be overturned.