Salem, OR — The Oregon Department of Revenue will begin processing 2022 state income tax returns Jan. 23, 2023, the same day the IRS will begin processing feder...
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Democrat Tina Kotek will be sworn in as Oregon's new governor Monday, ascending to the state's highest office after serving a record nine yea...
More than 40% of Oregon adults say the state’s forests are overlogged, but most also believe that harvesting timber is part of maintaining healthy forests, acco...
Rob Wagner first walked into the Oregon Capitol in 1997 as an intern for a first-term Democratic state senator from Portland. In January, as his first political...
Housing will remain a top focus when the Oregon Legislature returns to work in January, a top Democratic lawmaker tells the Capital Chronicle.
Rep. Julie Fahey,...
A Harney County judge Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order against all provisions of Oregon’s gun control Measure 114.
Harney County Circuit Judge Robe...
The Oregon Department of Justice is asking a federal judge to postpone until February some parts of the voter-approved firearms measure scheduled to kick in Thu...
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced Monday she is pardoning an estimated 45,000 people convicted of simple possession of marijuana, a month after President Joe Bid...
U.S. regulators approved a plan Thursday to demolish four dams on a northern California river and open up hundreds of miles of salmon habitat that would be the ...
PORTLAND — Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer has won the open U.S. House seat in Oregon’s 5th Congressional District, flipping the district for the GOP in a hard-f...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tina Kotek said Thursday she would focus on addressing the state's homelessness crisis and be a ...
Republicans have their best chance in years to wrest control of the Oregon Senate away from Democrats this November, buoyed by national trends, a competitive go...
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (AP) — Union workers at the timber company Weyerhaeuser have ended their strike and could be back on the job as early as next week in Oregon a...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Stephanie Terrell bought a used Nissan Leaf last month and was excited to join the wave of drivers adopting electric vehicles to save on g...
Many Oregonians want elected leaders to tackle homelessness, a state survey found.
Thirty-seven percent of 1,878 Oregonians surveyed identified the state’s home...
Oregon political ads are getting increasingly negative, with less than two weeks until Election Day. For one Oregon woman, an attack ad in a Portland-area legis...
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A waiting and vetting period would be baked into gun purchases in Oregon if a measure on the November statewide ballot passes.
If voters appr...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mayor of Portland, Oregon, plans to ban camping on city streets and move unhoused people to designated campsites, as the growing homel...
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A U.S. Forest Service employee in Oregon was arrested this week by a county sheriff after a planned burn in a national forest spread onto pri...
New ACT scores out Wednesday show that very few Oregon high school students took the ACT —and the average scores for those who did was far lower than in any of ...
