Oregon News

"Are you kidding ?" This is Monica Wehby's amiable response to people who wonder whether she will be able to bear the pressures of office if she wins her race as a Republican Senate candidate.

Amsala Getaneh of Bahrain had been scheduled to run in the 1,500-meter preliminaries in the IAAF World Junior Track & Field Championships today at Hayward Field.

Federal officials say 50 immigrant children are being relocated from the Mexican border to Oregon, and Gov. John Kitzhaber says they are welcome.

The Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution , a medium-security prison that once served as a state mental hospital, stands on a grassy hillside about a mile west of the rodeo grounds of the Pendleton Round-Up .

Two of the four Portland teenagers accused of shooting a fellow high school student with a BB gun and carving a swastika into his forehead entered guilty pleas in court this week and have been sentenced.

Five Oregon home-based, day-care centers are owned by people who have medical marijuana cards, officials said, prompting Gov. John Kitzhaber to say they should have to choose between their business and their pot.

Democrat Gov. John Kitzhaber on Thursday challenged his Republican rival, state Rep. Dennis Richardson, to five debates in the fall -- and the Richardson campaign quickly accepted.

In 2014, the Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon will honor six sisters who have given a combined 375 years of service and ministry.

The move this week by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department follows an earlier ban on smoking at most other state park properties.

Lightning storms have ignited six new range fires in eastern Oregon, and more bad weather is expected by the end of the week.

A Portland man who says he was molested by his Scout leader in the 1970s seeks $5.3 million in a lawsuit filed against the Boy Scouts of America.

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.