History

Over a century ago, on May 27, 1887, a gang of horse thieves gunned down more than 30 Chinese gold miners on the Oregon side of the Snake River in Hells Canyon.

Rob McIntyre has spent the past 19 years bringing a historic theater back to its former glory. He hopes this building could be a mecca for the arts in Northeast Oregon.

The descendants of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and those of the people the Lee family enslaved came together for the first time at Arlington House, the national memorial to Lee in Virginia.

Explorers have announced they found a sunken Japanese ship that was transporting Allied prisoners of war when it was torpedoed off the coast of the Philippines in 1942, resulting in Australia’s largest maritime wartime loss with a total of 1,080 lives

A nonprofit currently safeguarding the Jantzen Beach carousel has set a mid-September deadline for pitches to keep the ride in Oregon.

Three board members resigned after the National Audubon Society rejected calls to change its name. Some local groups, including Portland, Oregon, are renaming themselves anyway.

Southern Oregon residents recently opened a gift from the past: a time capsule discovered in the ashes of the 2020 Almeda Fire.

Born in 1872 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Marie Equi grew up in a working-class immigrant family and labored in the town’s textile mills to help support the family. As a young woman, she self-studied her way into medical school and received her degree in 1903. But her life took a hard left into radical politics after she made her way to Oregon.

Oregon's trailblazing legislator and judge, Betty Roberts, would have turned 100 on February 5, 2023.

This weekend’s world premiere uses music to explore the painful past treatment of Indigenous peoples who once made Oregon’s Yakona Nature Preserve their homeland.