John Kitzhaber News

Federal officials say a relatively small number of the unaccompanied immigrant children who have been flooding into the United States from Central America have been sent to Oregon, Washington state and Idaho over the past six months.

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

This week, an Alaska Superior Court Judge overturned the state's decision to reject a ballot initiative that proposed to ban setnets in urban areas of the state .

Inmates begin their lives behind bars with a bedroll and a towel, a set of denim clothes, a comb, a toothbrush, a bottle of shampoo, two bars of soap, deodorant, a pen, paper and a handbook of Department of Corrections rules.

During last week's debate for Oregon governor, Republican challenger Dennis Richardson admitted that as a state representative from Central Point he doesn't have a lot of experience with diversity.

The performing arts center at Reed College under construction in 2012. Writing in The New Republic, William Deresiewicz argues that parents would be better off sending their kids to "second tier" colleges like Reed than members of the Ivy League.

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.

IT'S ILLEGAL in Oregon for anyone with a criminal record or commitment to a mental health institution to own firearms.

In this July 11, 2014 photo, patient Amanda Thornton, left, of Aloha, Ore., speaks with primary care doctor John Guerreiro at a clinic run by the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center in Beaverton, Ore.

One of Oregon's most prominent African-American officials has left Gov. John Kitzhaber 's office after just six months on the job, and no one will say why.

Immigration activists held a demonstration in downtown Portland on Tuesday to welcome unaccompanied child immigrants rumored to be arriving in Portland within the next few weeks.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Papak said in a Portland, Oregon, courtroom on Tuesday that he must decide whether the Corps' documents show their internal deliberations about the Morrow Pacific coal export terminal in Boardman, Oregon.

Oregon voters will be deciding this year whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use.

Triz delaRosa, left, speaks with former Cover Oregon executive director Rocky King and Amy Fauver, the exchange's communications director in March 2013.

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.

Gov. John Kitzhaber has shaken up his public-relations staff: His top spokeswoman is gone from his office in the midst of a re-election campaign.

Portland schools Superintendent Carole Smith earns $193,000. The Portland School Board is considering a raise that would bring her salary to $257,000.

Dennis Richardson and Gov. John Kitzhaber before Friday's debate before the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association in Salem.

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.

Smoke from the Bear Butte 2 fire, burning in the Sunflower Complex about 10 miles north of Monument, Ore.