1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (734+ words) Federal protest prosecutions that began on Portland streets are returning to Oregon courtrooms this fall, where the U.S. Department of Justice faces an uneven record in converting allegations of assaults against federal officers into felony convictions when defendants take their cases…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (505+ words) Oregon’s first trip to Stillwater became one of the earliest major upsets of the college football season Saturday as Oklahoma State overwhelmed the No. 6 Ducks statistically and emerged with a 39-31 victory at Boone Pickens Stadium. The result bore little resemblance…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (532+ words) Southern Oregon’s long-running hospital staffing battle has reached the state Capitol, where nurses and other medical professionals are pressing legislators to intervene as penalties against Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center have climbed to $1,564,250 under Oregon’s hospital staffing law. Southern Oregon…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (523+ words) Oregon’s chief government ethics administrator emerged Friday from an outside examination of her own conduct with no violation established, closing an extraordinary case that required the state’s ethics watchdog to look beyond its own offices for someone to investigate the…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (558+ words) After nearly seven weeks with the nation’s firefighting resources committed at their highest preparedness level, Oregon U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden and four Western senators are seeking answers from the Trump administration over federal staffing, firefighter safety and the billions of…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (389+ words) Oregon has temporarily closed state-owned land to unapproved data-center development as the explosive growth of artificial intelligence and cloud computing forces the state to reconcile billions of dollars in technology investment with rising electricity demand, water consumption, infrastructure costs and…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (442+ words) Oregon legislators are beginning to revisit laws they previously sent through the Capitol, tracing what happened after those measures took effect and examining whether state agencies, funding and public programs produced the results envisioned when the legislation was approved. Oregon…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (235+ words) Oregon’s staggering 2026 wildfire season is arriving at the Capitol with a bill nearly as formidable as the landscape it burned, forcing lawmakers to confront hundreds of millions of dollars in suppression expenses after flames swept across more than 2.5 million acres…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (902+ words) Nearly a month after flames broke out deep in the Mt. Hood National Forest and eventually swept across more than 12,600 acres, the Austin Fire entered Sunday under dramatically quieter weather conditions, but with hundreds of firefighters still on the ground…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (1089+ words) With the final months of 2026 approaching, households across Southern Oregon have an opportunity to examine where their money went this year, what remains vulnerable in their finances and which adjustments can still be made before the calendar turns to 2027. For…...