Oregon News

The East Oregonian newspaper reports that a strain of the virus was discovered at a testing site in Irrigon.

The letter showed up on the Facebook page of Portland blogger Byron Beck. He refused to reveal who gave it to him but says he did not dig up the information himself.

An Oregon Department of Transportation study of a crash-prone Oregon 217 flyover ramp in Tigard found no structural problems and blames a series of traffic-jamming collisions in recent months on drivers going too fast.

In this July 11, 2014 photo, primary care doctor John Guerreiro checks on the records of a patient at a clinic run by the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center in Beaverton, Ore.

The sheriff told the East Oregonian newspaper that the Umatilla Police Department will handle the investigation.

Low-income Oregon residents were supposed to be big winners after the state expanded Medicaid under the federal health care overhaul and created a new system to improve the care they received.

PORTLAND, Ore. Cover Oregon officials said they don't believe Oregon will be affected by a federal appeals court's ruling on Tuesday that has the potential to deal a severe blow to the Affordable Care Act in states that are part of the federal exchange.

Oregon voters will be deciding this year whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use.

Oregon voters will get to decide this November whether they want to legalize recreational marijuana for people 21 or older.

Many of the new fire reports came from the same areas around Prineville and in the Ochoco National Forest that were hard hit in the last lightning storm, said the Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center.

This year's Oregon Brewers Festival has something for every kind of beer lover, and there are many kinds of beer lover.

Terry Richard is setting off on a noble effort to name the 7 best hikes in the 7 Wonders of Oregon , as chosen in a Travel Oregon Marketing campaign .

Mark Katches, a nationally recognized leader of investigative and enterprise journalism, has been named vice president of content for the Oregonian Media Group and editor of The Oregonian.

Police in Oregon are on the hunt for vandals who are smearing cars in one neighborhood with doughnuts and other baked goods.

Here are seven wonderful hikes at Mount Hood and the surrounding Mount Hood National Forest , in Clackamas and Hood River counties of the northern Oregon Cascades.

Richardson seeks to paint Kitzhaber as someone voters should not have elected a record third time, let alone win a fourth term on Nov. 4. During their first joint appearance last week in Salem, Richardson played up the failures of the Cover Oregon website and the Columbia River Crossing, labeling Kitzhaber as an absentee governor during the past ... (more)

No, we're talking pastry here - maple bars smeared on cars, doughnuts left atop windshield wipers, pastries littering a yard.

A man awaiting trial for theft managed to escape an Oregon jail after he was let outside as part of a work crew, fled across the jail parking lot and jumped a fence in the latest in a string of Oregon prisoner escapes, authorities said on Monday.

Oregon law allows interstate speed limits of up to 70 mph . So why doesn't the state Department of Transportation go ahead and just put the metal to the pedal already? In my latest Oregonian commuting column , I explained how ODOT has sided with highway engineers and medical experts who insist that even a 5 mph boost in the state's maximum speed ... (more)

Firefighters battling six large wildfires or sets of blazes in Central Oregon have been up against gusty winds over the past 24 hours but cooler temperatures have enabled crews to make some headway.