Snow and ice closed state government offices and the Oregon Capitol on Thursday — but lawmakers, staff, lobbyists and Oregonians prepared to testify on bills didn’t learn the Capitol would ...

Deschutes County won’t join others that have asked the state to walk back its map assigning a wildfire hazard level to every ...

Multiple crashes were reported during Thursday's snow storm, with freezing rain on the way overnight. TriMet is adjusting ...

Your overview of the candidates and issues in the Feb. 25 special election. The top two vote-getters will face off in April ...

“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 ...

Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d ...

The National Weather Service has issued an ice storm warning for the Willamette Valley through early Friday. Follow our live ...

Nearly four years ago, in the aftermath of the state’s most destructive wildfires in history, the Oregon Legislature passed a bipartisan package of wildfire prevention initiatives, including one that ...

The Hawaiʻi State House of Representatives has returned to committee a bill aimed at legalizing recreational marijuana for adults aged 21 and older, a move likely to kill the measure this session in ...

The Ashland lawmaker wants the map to designate the risk level of broad areas rather than naming the risk of individual ...

If elected, he wants to focus on what he called base-level security: water supply, fires, preparing for disasters, addressing ...

Republicans have been winning an asymmetric war over district lines for decades. To preserve democracy, their opponents will have to fight back.