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To my usual "I-teach-harp-and-parent" I've been adding, "and work for climate recovery by opposing Northwest fossil fuel exports and Keystone Pipeline."

An oil train sits at a terminal on the Columbia River near Clatskanie. Samples show oil that has been unloaded there is more volatile than dozens of other types of crude oil, meaning it's more likely to emit flammable gases.

And the chief captain answered, with a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, but I was free born.

According to Freedom Oregon, the vote was 233 to 162. The annual Republican conference was founded in 1965 by Robert Packwood, then an up-and-coming Republican state legislator, and later a U.S. Senator.

How many classes, again? This week, students at Lincoln High School in Southwest Portland got the message loud and clear to sign up for a full course load in 2014-15, not the part-time regimen that has become all too common in Oregon schools.

Q: I hope you can resolve a disagreement . On a three-lane freeway like Interstate 5, I think it's best to take a Zen-like approach and use the middle lane.

Oregonians were taken by surprise when a dock from Japan floated ashore at Agate Beach, just north of Newport, well after the 2011 tsunami disaster.

Police tell KBOI 2News the shooting occurred at about 3:30 a.m. in the hospital's west parking lot.

Forest Grove Fire & Rescue is warning people driving north on Oregon 47 to be careful because of a fuel spill.

Democrat Brent Barton following results from the 2012 election. Barton is being targeted by Republicans in the 2014 election.

David Alan Herman pleaded guilty Thursday, March 13, to criminally negligent homicide in the 2013 crash that killed 11-year-old Kylie Hornych.

Beginning Saturday, U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Hood River, will be in Eastern Oregon for town hall meetings in five counties - Union, Umatilla, Morrow, Gilliam and Sherman.

March is not just for whales on the central Oregon coast it's actually for the birds as well.

A police officer searches for drugs in a Klamath Falls home at the concusion of a state-led wiretap case targeting organized drug trafficking.

By WARREN RESEN - Member North American Travel Journalists Association Driving north on the coastal highways of California and Oregon and then through the redwood forests is an unforgettable adventure.

Gov. John Kitzhaber decided this week that Oregon will be the fourth state to avoid food stamp cuts included in the federal farm bill.

If your 22-pound cat clawed your infant, then went on a yowling rampage that ended with your family barricaded in a bedroom on the phone to 911 , you'd think a little, er, tension might result.

Oregon State Penitentiary is one of the more than dozen prisons Bryan Denson will cover as the new beat reporter covering state and federal corrections in the state.

A variety of new exhibits at coastal history museums will have you riveted. From the slightly spooky to the just plain mind-boggling, museums on the north and central Oregon coast are featuring tidbits about the abundance of regional shipwrecks, a coastal ghost town you probably knew nothing about, and a legendary lighthouse.

New concerns swirled this week that Cover Oregon would not get the extension it asked the federal government for in order to give Oregonians more time to enroll for coverage beyond the March 31 deadline.