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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.

Every Sunday night, bikers gather in the hills of Portland, Oregon to race on bikes made for children.

Joel "Charley" Jones sits outside the trailer he lives in with his girlfriend at Robbin's Nest RV Park in Bandon on Jan. 23. Jones shattered his heel bone in October 2012 and almost had his foot amputated after it became infected with gangrene.

The former governor died at 8:15 p.m. PDT at Portland's Providence St. Vincent Medical Center of complications from renal failure, said Denny Miles, who had formerly served as Atiyeh's press secretary.

Vic Atiyeh, Oregon's last Republican governor who shepherded the state through a deep recession during two terms in the 1980s, died Sunday night, a family spokesman said.

Vic Atiyeh, Oregon's last Republican governor who shepherded the state through a deep recession during two terms in the 1980s, died Sunday night, a family spokesman said.

Sunday is now the fifth day in a row with little to no sun spot activity on the surface of the sun, something that has scientists scratching their heads.

Former state representative and Portland mayoral candidate Jefferson Smith and Lewis and Clark Law School professor and U.S. Senate candidate Jim Huffman join KATU's Brian Wood Sunday, July 20 in analyzing the gubernatorial debate Friday between Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber and his challenger Republican state Rep. Dennis Richardson.