Oregon News

A new public opinion study published in the American Political Science Review ranks Oregon 13th nationwide in support for same sex marriage rights, with about 45 percent of Oregonians supporting the cause.

Oregon Anti-Crime Alliance spokeswoman Tara Lawrence said Friday that courts and district attorneys around Oregon are being saddled with extra costs and workload from having to conduct thousands of resentencing reviews.

Selma native Kristy Lee Cook will perform at the annual Veterans Day Ceremony at the Oregon Fallen War Heroes Memorial in Central Point.

A federal judge has ruled that an Oregon orchard company did not break minimum wage laws by deducting money for food and housing from paychecks for seasonal workers.

Chris Dudley's free throw shots were always iffy propositions. Now the former Portland Trail Blazer is in a new arena taking aim at a governor's chair - and Oregon's Republicans think he can score.Dudley hasn't formally announced a bid for the post, but he filed paperwork last week to create a campaign committee."I'll make a decision soon and ...

The Internal Revenue Service says it has more than 1,300 refund checks worth $1,443,545 for Oregon taxpayers that were returned by the US Post Office due to mailing errors.

Oregon corrections officers have voted down a tentative contract with the state, balking at proposed pay cuts tied to unpaid furlough days, union officials said Wednesday.

The state of Oregon has shut down a boarding school for troubled teens in Central Oregon after allegedly finding a pattern of child abuse and neglect of its students, forcing parents around the country to scramble to bring home their children.

Advocates for same-sex marriage are currently touring the state, hoping to drum up enough support to get the issue back on the ballot in 2012.

A 34-year-old man is accused of trying to lure a 9-year-old girl online to have sex with him, federal agents said.

A 20-year-old Portland man has been sentenced to 30 days in jail after pleading no contest to criminally negligent homicide in a traffic accident that killed his passenger two years ago.

Oregon officials say that more than 10,000 children already have been added to state health care rolls under a new law that's aimed at expanding health coverage to nearly every child in Oregon.

The Oregon State University fraternity whose member shot a homeless man back in 2006 will be responsible for paying damages to the victim.

Some people who provide child care so parents in low-income families can go to work say new precautions by an Oregon state agency are delaying their payments.

Oregon has seen a boom in wind energy projects, such as this one in the Columbia River Gorge not far from Hood River.

Gay rights backers plan to ask Oregon voters to reverse their ban on gay marriage.

MADISON - Responding to a state lawmaker's complaints about inmates receiving swine flu vaccine while other citizens wait, state Department of Corrections officials said most of the vaccine was going to staff, not inmates.

Uni-Chem, the South Korean company that wants to start making solar cells in the Hynix plant in west Eugene, is just the latest in a string of foreign companies that are coming to Oregon to seek their solar fortune.

The state Department of Corrections says its inmates aren't getting better access to swine-flu vaccine than are others citizens.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is buying more private land for the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in Southern Oregon.