SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — Prison officials are investigating after an inmate at Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem died, Tuesday.

Lawyers for the prisoner alleged his eye “slowly, painfully died inside his head” after “botched eye surgery.” ...

Dr. Peter O’Hanley claimed the chief medical officer, Dr. Warren Roberts, presided over a dysfunctional health care system ...

Under HB 3551, state and local law enforcement could work with federal immigration authorities on violent felonies, felony sex offenses and Class A misdemeanors.

Lawson was serving a sentence for fatally stabbing his 22-year-old son in their Southeast Portland apartment in 2015.

“If I think about my email and the number of things like, ‘I’m going to cut off your head or burn down your house’ – those are not infrequent,’” said state Sen. Sara Gelser Blouin, D-Corvallis. Under ...

AB 469 seeks to close loopholes and strengthen sentences for looting and fake first responders in disaster zones.

A second federal judge on Friday paused President Donald Trump’s executive order halting federal support for gender-affirming ...