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Washington County Commissioner Greg Malinowski is among a slew of statewide county officials opposing a bill that would automatically register an estimated 500,000 potential Oregon voters.

An initiative that would allow utilities to count all hydroelectric power toward renewable energy requirements was approved this week for signature gathering .

An Oregon judge has sentenced a Nevada couple who received $229,000 in unjustified payments from state and county agencies and an insurance company.

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Got bees? Managers for the Portland Center for the Performing Arts discovered a hive of about 2,500 honeybees clinging to the building's south outside wall Thursday.

Jesse Herman, left, and Johnny Colbert work behind the counter at a brisk pace, helping medical marijuana customers at Lightshade Labs in Denver, Colo.

Recently, an article by Kate Baicker and colleagues came out in the New England Journal of Medicine .

Oregon's rural communities, particularly ones that once relied on timber revenues, are seeking new business models to sustain themselves, and many are looking to the recreation industry to drive business growth and create jobs.

From left are Leatherman's multi tools: Squirt ES4, Squirt PS4 and Micra, Leatherman is among the local companies that hopes the TSA changes its rules to permit small knife blades on airplanes.

An attempt to resurrect NE Portland's old-school burger joint Yaw's Top Notch Restaurant has failed after eight months.

A federal judge has dismissed a movie company's Internet piracy complaint against 34 Oregonians, saying the company was unfairly using the court's subpoena power in a "reverse class-action suit" to save on legal expenses and possibly to intimidate defendants into paying thousands of dollars for viewing a movie that can be bought or rented for less ... (more)

When Greg Nokes of West Linn found out that one of his Oregon ancestors was a slave owner he was surprised to say the least.

There's a "Monsanto protection act" in the Oregon Legislature, and opponents say that due to its vague language its repercussions could affect not only seed growers but also city and county governments managing vegetation.

Mrs. Oregon Tara Arnold teaches students at Beaverton's Stoller Middle School a dance to Beyonce'A s "AoeMove Your Body"A . She spent a few weeks at the school late last month as part of her "Movin'A It With Mrs.

State, federal and local law enforcement agencies has dismantled a large and violent drug trafficking organization in Klamath County, arresting more than 30 suspects and charging them with multiple counts of racketeering and unlawful delivery of methamphetamine.

ODOT and other Oregon officials are urging extreme caution when it comes to a major bike event to and from the Oregon coast this weekend, as hundreds of bicyclists will be sharing the road with motorists in a wide cross-section of the western part of the state.

This is what competition looks like: One health insurer wants to charge $169 a month next year to cover a 40-year-old Portland-area non-smoker. Another wants $422 a month for the same standard plan.

More than a third of Oregon's National Merit Scholars live in a single Portland-area ZIP code, an affluent, tech-oriented, immigrant-rich area of suburban Washington County.

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber has taken a fair amount of heat for leaving Salem during the legislative session with his partner, Cylvia Hayes, to attend a conference in the small Himalayan country of Bhutan to study alternative methods of measuring prosperity.

In attempts to eliminate confusion surrounding Multnomah County's recently passed gun ordinance and how it will affect unincorporated Corbett, Sheriff Dan Staton told a disgruntled crowd at Corbett's town hall meeting he will not enforce the ordinance that takes effect at the end of May.