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The Nike Oregon Project's Alberto Salazar at a workout last year with Galen Rupp and Mo Farah .

Rep. Brian Clem, D-Salem, helped negotiate key compromises at the Legislature, resulting in bills that settled a land use dispute in Washington County and allowed for local regulation of marijuana dispensaries.

Kevin MacLean found his calling early in life as a 10-year-old making claymation movies with his grandpa's old video camera.

According to Manning, the Oregon Department of Transportation will begin to dismantle the project shortly.

The Oregon Department of Transportation announced Friday that it's shutting down planning for the Columbia River Crossing project after the state Legislature declined to approve funding to build a new Interstate 5 and light-rail bridge into Washington.

The National Weather Service in Portland has issued a high wind watch for the north and central Oregon coast for this weekend, bringing with it the possibilities of wind gusts up to 65 mph.

Local teens walked the catwalk on Thursday at "Shine: A Fashion Show," hosted by Amy Vining Photography at the Cleaners at the Ace Hotel.

Mark Vanderhoof had a lengthy history of brutalizing young children. In 1980, he was convicted of child abuse for the physical assault of his 4-month-old daughter in Nevada.

In February of 2013, five members of the Oregon Foster Youth Connection testified before the Senate health and human services committee in defense of Senate Bill 123 - mandating the adoption of an Oregon Foster Youth Bill of Rights and the hiring of a state foster youth ombudsman.

More than five months after Oregon's botched health-insurance exchange failed to go live, concern is mounting for another, less visible state IT project that was built in conjunction with the exchange, using the same technology.

As the Oregon Legislative session lurches toward an end, I started to wonder what lawmakers thought of annual sessions and short sessions in particular.

It's amazing where life can pop up, or where it can survive. Especially marine life.

A group of Catholics on Wednesday gathered outside St. Mary's Cathedral in Portland to speak out against a proposed ballot initiative similar to Arizona's recently vetoed SB1062.

Oregon will ask the federal government for permission to give Oregonians more time to comply with the Affordable Care Act because of delays with the state's online health insurance exchange.

The biggest outstanding issue is the budget, including Oregon Health & Science University's request for the state to fund cancer research facilities and additional funding for prisons and social services.

A native of Indiana, John Whiteaker was born on May 4, 1820. The son of John Whiteaker and Nancy Smales, he was one of five children.

Editor Peter Bhatia announced Thursday he is leaving The Oregonian to teach at Arizona State University.

Bhatia joined Oregon's largest newspaper in 1993 and was managing editor and executive editor before becoming editor on Jan. 1, 2010.

"This is a question that divides people of faith across the state," said the Rev.

Just as LGBTQ activists are celebrating Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum's decision to not defend Oregon's gay marriage ban and celebrating Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's veto of that state's anti-gay discrimination bill, along comes the reminder that the Oregon Family Council wants to throw a little cold water on the gey celebration.