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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)

"Our governor no longer has a passion to serve. He's more aloof and we've seen it in projects like Cover Oregon and the Columbia River Crossing and the wrong headed decisions like hriing Rudy Crew to oversee our education system and failing to hire an systems integrator for Cover Oregon."

New jobs data tells a now familiar story about steady improvement in Oregon. Coming out of the great recession, the national economy is undergoing an uneven recovery, but there are strong signs of growth throughout Oregon.

The exchange's former executive director Dr. Bruce Goldberg, right, spoke during a Cover Oregon board meeting in Portland in March Battered by controversy, its vision in doubt, the board of Cover Oregon will meet today and tomorrow to start planning its future.

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.

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.

An apple sprouting fins and eyeballs sits atop a car decorated in support of GMO food labeling in downtown Portland July 18. Congress might not be accomplishing much these days, but that doesn't mean it's not wrestling with significant issues.

As Latinos become a larger and more politically powerful section of the American public, there are a number of good reasons to be interested in their political views and affiliations.

In 1997, the European Union began requiring that genetically engineered foods be labeled, so consumers could make informed decisions about what food they bought.

The emergence of small businesses has helped boost commercial strips like this one on Southeast Gladstone Street near Southeast 39th Ave. Portland and other cities need to encourage such entrepreneurship by keeping regulations and fees for new businesses as low as possible.

A massive, swiftly-moving wildfire has destroyed some 100 homes in several small communities in Washington State northeast of Seattle , sending residents fleeing under mandatory evacuation orders.

Two students worked on their quad copter last year at Intel's Ultimate Engineering Experience, a camp hosted by Portland Community College at the Rock Creek campus.

Check your electric bill. Does it say Pacific Power on it? Then let me be the first to tell you: you are addicted to coal.

Gov. John Kitzhaber and challenger Rep. Dennis Richardson presented sharply contrasting portraits of Oregon in their first debate Friday, with the governor trumpeting job creation and his rival pointing to millions of dollars lost in the Cover Oregon and Columbia River Crossing failures.

The D Block at Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem is part of a growing state prison system.

Oregon death penalty foes found a lot to like in a federal court decision handed down this week in California.

Programmers for Oregon's health exchange last week tried to hammer out bugs that have delayed enrollment for the new Cover Oregon website.

Rolling over the Interstate Bridge into Legalization Land a few days ago, you could immediately sense a difference long before catching a whiff of anything in the air.

Michel Hilt-Hayden said she relies on her service dogs Panda and Contessa, who were barred from a Eugene store last year by the owner who said they were not service dogs.