An Oregon appeals court has found that a voter-approved gun control law is constitutional, reversing a lower court ruling.

Research shows Americans are frustrated with what they perceive as aloofness and gridlock within civic institutions.

Democrat Janelle Bynum has flipped Oregon’s 5th Congressional District.

Firefighters in the West are scrambling as wildfires threaten communities in Oregon, California and Washington.

A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that Oregon defendants must be released from jail after seven days if they don't have an appointed defense attorney.

Oregon is poised to step back from its first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law.

An Oregon judge has ruled that a voter-approved gun control law violates the state constitution.

An Oregon judge will decide whether a gun control law approved by voters last year is lawful under the state constitution.

Oregon has taken an unprecedented step in offering psilocybin, also known as magic mushrooms, to the public.

A jury verdict that found power company PacifiCorp liable for devastating wildfires in Oregon in 2020 is highlighting the legal and financial risks utilities face if they fail to take proper precautions for climate change.

A jury in Oregon has found the electric utility PacifiCorp responsible for causing devastating fires during Labor Day weekend in 2020, ordering the company to pay tens of millions of dollars to 17 homeowners who sued and finding it liable for broader damages that could push the total award well into the billions.

The political divide affecting the United States is hitting Oregon hard.

Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan has announced her resignation amid sharp criticism from both Republicans and Democrats for having moonlighted as a highly-paid consultant to a marijuana business.

Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan has apologized for taking a job as a consultant for a marijuana company.

Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan is in hot water, with Republican lawmakers calling for her resignation and the Democratic governor seeking investigations because Fagan took a consulting job with a marijuana firm.

A trial has begun in connection with a $1.6 billion class action lawsuit against utility PacifiCorp over the catastrophic Labor Day 2020 wildfires in Oregon.

Legal marijuana growers along the West Coast are struggling with oversupply, low prices and limited outlets for selling their product.

The Oregon Legislature has authorized the governor to expand urban growth boundaries to provide land for chipmakers to build factories.

For exactly 50 years, Oregon’s farms and forests have been protected from urban sprawl by the nation’s first statewide law creating urban growth boundaries.

Oregon will temporarily suspend rebates for buying or leasing an electric vehicle for a year starting in May.

Liberal Democrat Tina Kotek unveiled measures to combat homelessness as she was sworn in as Oregon's new governor.

Oregon will begin allowing licensed, regulated use of psychedelic mushrooms in 2023.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has announced she is commuting the sentences of all of the state's 17 inmates awaiting execution.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has announced she is pardoning an estimated 45,000 people convicted of simple possession of marijuana, a month after President Joe Biden did the same under federal law.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials under then-President Donald Trump compiled intelligence dossiers on people who were arrested at Black Lives Matter protests in Portland, Oregon.

Oregon voters are being asked to decide whether the state should be the first in the nation to amend its constitution to explicitly declare that affordable health care is a fundamental human right.

Oregon is typically known as a bastion of West Coast liberalism where Democrats are easily elected and a Republican hasn’t served as governor since the 1980s.

A new map in Oregon that rated the wildfire risk of every tax lot in the state — labeling nearly 80,000 structures as high-risk — generated so much pushback from angry homeowners that officials abruptly retracted it, saying they had not done enough local outreach before publicizing the ambitious project.

Seven-term U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader has lost the Democratic primary in Oregon to progressive challenger Jamie McLeod-Skinner.

Oregon’s November gubernatorial election, which is usually a one-sided victory for the Democratic party, is setting up to be a competitive and contentious three-way race.

Farmworkers in Oregon would earn overtime pay for the first time in the state under a bill that the Legislature has approved.

Democrats in Oregon’s Legislature have proposed a $400 million investment package on Thursday to urgently address some of the state’s biggest challenges — homelessness and affordable housing.

Pacific Northwest lawmakers are eyeing several emergency relief bills aimed at helping vulnerable people following last year's historic heat wave that killed at least 220 people.

Former New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof traded the concrete canyons of Manhattan and the ritzy New York suburb of Scarsdale for his old family home, located on a dirt road in Oregon, to run for governor.

The state that launched the movement to offer millions of dollars in incentives to boost vaccination rates is concluding its program still unable to crack the 50% vaccination threshold.

(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. -- The Navajo Nation has continued on a downward trend in the number of daily coronavirus cases. Canada regulators have approved AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine. Gavin Newsom expects California to start administering the new Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine next week. Addition of the J&J vaccine would come as California is seeing dramatic drops in virus cases and hospitalizations after record highs in early January. While they only comprise about 48% of coronavirus cases, they account for 74% of vaccinations.

The measure said the U.S., possession of small amounts of heroin, cocaine, LSD and other hard drugs would be decriminalized in Oregon. “Measure 110 is arguably the biggest blow to the war on drugs to date.”The measure completely changes how Oregon’s justice system treats those who are found with personal-use amounts of the hard drugs. The passage of the measure makes Oregon, which in 1973 became the first state to decriminalize marijuana possession, a pioneer in America in trying the same with hard drugs. While this approach is new in the United States, several countries, including Portugal, the Netherlands and Switzerland, have already decriminalized possession of small amounts of hard drugs, according to the United Nations. Oregon voters on Tuesday also legalized therapeutic use of psilocybin mushrooms, with a two-year development period.

FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2020, file photo, scorched property stands at an intersection in Blue River, Ore., days after a blaze known as the Holiday Farm Fire swept through the area's business district. Oregonians are grieving the loss of some of their most treasured natural places after wildfires wiped out campgrounds, hot springs and wooded retreats that have been a touchstone for generations in a state known for its unspoiled beauty. (Andy Nelson/The Register-Guard via AP, Pool, File)