The future of commercial fishing on the Columbia River is now in the hands of the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission after a measure to ban gillnets failed on Election Day.
Results released Friday by the League of Women Voters of Oregon show Obama had 7,182 votes and Romney 3,675. Four minor party candidates split about 800 votes.
Residents of Washington, Oregon and Colorado won't just be considering whether to let adults buy pot at state-sanctioned shops when they vote next month on legalizing and taxing marijuana.
SALEM, Ore. -- This November, voters will decide whether they wish the State of Oregon to legalize the cultivation, sale and use of cannabis. Because of that, there will be a Sept. 28 discussion about Measure 80 (The Oregon Cannabis Tax...
As CEOs, Sam Walton, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs possessed common traits. They were visionaries, too, who reshaped their respective industries. Their companies faced similar challenges when their iconic leaders left the helm.
For Rory McIlroy, redemption came on Sunday. After blowing a lead on the last day of the Masters, the young golfer ran away with an eight shot victory at the U.S. Open.
On another brilliant day of golf, Rory McIlroy ran away with the U.S. Open title, winning by eight shots and breaking the tournament scoring record by a whopping four strokes.
Both the Oregon House and Senate have now voted to expand Oregon's bottle bill, which would create deposits for energy drinks, tea and many other beverages.
Cawker City, Kansas might be home to the biggest ball of twine in the world, but now Vivian, South Dakota has its own claim to fame: it can brag it is now home to the biggest hailstone ever found in the United States.
When a severe thunderstorm...
A massive influx of red tide at levels not seen in at least a decade is inundating shellfish in Clallam County sea waters with potentially lethal levels of paralytic shellfish poison - and the toxin may be moving east toward Jefferson County and Puget Sound.
While business groups look like they will be successful in sending to the voters a measure that could overturn the Oregon Legislature's $733 million tax hike on corporations and high-income earners, two other anti-tax referendum campaigns are struggling.
The unemployment rate in Oregon stayed at 12.2 percent last month, unchanged from May, according to a report released Monday morning. In June, 241,156 Oregonians were unemployed.