Six weeks after a tragic chemical spill at the Nippon Dynawave pulp and paper mill in Longview, the incident has transitioned out of emergency status. The unified command of federal and state ...

Oregon students missed classes, left school and struggled to learn as the fear of ICE undermined the school year. Washington County saw Oregon’s highest number of recorded immigration arrests from ...

In 2021, a devastating heat wave blanketed the pacific northwest, smashing records. How has AC access changed since then in Portland, one of the major cities affected. Millions of people in the ...

Millions of people in the central and eastern U.S. continue to swelter under extreme heat this week. Five years ago, another heat wave baked the Pacific Northwest. It smashed heat records in a region ...

Fox News host Trace Gallagher prematurely cut a guest's feed Thursday after President Donald Trump was called a pedophile and ...

This month, the U.S. Department of Education began rolling out a new accountability test that most colleges and universities will soon have to pass. The test itself is simple: If an undergraduate ...

When Ulysses McCready was in fifth grade, a group of Southern Oregon University music students hauled instruments to Orchard ...

GEOFF BENNETT: And I'm Geoff Bennett. On the "News Hour" tonight: Iran-backed Houthi rebels fire on Saudi vessels in the Red Sea, threatening yet another crucial shipping lane and causing oil prices ...

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