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An adventurer from Western Washington cast off recently trying to become the first person to traverse the Northwest Passage on a standup paddleboard. The passage is the fabled, but normally frozen, sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific across the top of Canada.

About 30% of Oregon's named glaciers have been lost since the 1950s.

An attempt by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to detain two men in Bend did not go as planned Wednesday afternoon, after hundreds of protesters stalled the action for more than 10 hours, leading to a standoff with Border Patrol agents later that night.

In November, voters in Oregon will decide Measure 105, which asks whether to keep the state’s 31-year-old sanctuary law.

Albert Mukete's release is notable because he appears to be among the first detainees at the federal prison in Sheridan granted parole by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Federal officials built the structure to keep out protesters. But they didn't get permits. 

The ACLU of Oregon sued the Trump Administration, arguing that attorneys have not been able to meet with 121 immigration detainees housed at the federal prison in Sheridan, Oregon.

Some of the parents separated from their children while seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border will end up in federal prisons in Oregon and Washington. 

The complaint alleges a plain clothes officer with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement eavesdropped on a private conversation between a man he arrested and that man's attorney.

Federal immigration officials responded Thursday to Oregon lawmakers concerned about a pair of attempted arrests that took place in recent months.