The second-ranking Democrat in the Oregon state Senate says his decades in the U.S. Army makes him the best choice to run the state’s audits.

Oregon’s next secretary of state faces the ongoing challenge of restoring confidence in the agency and in the state’s electoral process while implementing new campaign finance limits passed by this ...

A community health worker in Utah helps newly released prisoners sign up for social services, get addiction treatment and find housing.

Porter Clements is president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFSCME Local 1790 and a bilingual outreach and enrollment specialist at Outside In, a Portland-based ...

A lack of staffing and unsafe conditions led to the stabbing death last year of a 26-year-old worker in a behavioral health facility.

Two county commissioners, a mayor and a 20-year-old college student are running for eastern Oregon Senate District 29.

There’s good news for whale lovers on the Oregon coast. The number of gray whales that migrated south along the Pacific Coast ...

Oregon Health Authority Behavioral Health Director Ebony Clarke told a conference Monday that peer workers are key to helping clients.

Four Republicans are running in the primary for Congressional District 6, which is Oregon’s newest, created in 2022 based on ...

States and local organizations that aid victims of sexual assault and other crimes are raising the alarm about a multi-year ...

Quinton Smith founded YachatsNews, a nonprofit local news site, in 2019 after a 40-year career as a reporter and editor for ...

The National Republican Congressional Committee and GOP groups hope to flip the district to increase Republican control of ...