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April 2, 2024

Oregon governor signs bill recriminalizing hard drugs, completing liberal experiment's U-turn

The Governor of Oregon has signed a bill that ends a short-lived liberal policy that decriminalized the possession of small amounts of certain drugs following a surge in overdose deaths.

April 1, 2024

Shocking footage shows Oregon man barely missing runaway saw blade that got loose from construction site

Video captures the moments when an Oregon man avoided a runaway saw blade that rolled through a parking lot and slammed into a store just seconds after he went inside.

April 1, 2024

Remains of 'Lost Alaskans' sent to Oregon mental hospital a century ago are recovered, returned home

Between 1904 and the 1960s, about 5,500 Alaskans were sent away to a mental hospital in Portland, OR. Their fates are being uncovered by volunteers and made available to their families.

March 29, 2024

Federal judge rules in favor of Oregon church in key First Amendment lawsuit against city

A federal judge said a city ordinance restricting a church's homeless food service violated the institution's religious freedom rights.

March 28, 2024

Oregon toddler receives life-changing surgery to correct rare eye syndrome: ‘Sassier, more energetic’

An Oregon toddler underwent non-FDA approved eye surgery to help her see clearly. Her family fundraised money for months so that they could travel to Spain for the procedure.

March 26, 2024

Loggers cannot expand timber harvesting into Oregon national monument area, Supreme Court says

The Supreme Court declined to take up challenges to the 2017 expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, an expanse of wilderness along the California-Oregon border.

March 25, 2024

Steel doors, new riot squad: Portland prepares for fiery election season

Portland is building a stainless-steel wall around a federal courthouse to protect against violent political protests ahead of the highly anticipated 2024 presidential election.

March 20, 2024

Democrats in denial on crimes of illegal immigrants. Here's the reality the rest of America can't ignore

As the border crisis escalates, Democrats are working tirelessly to deflect attention from the reality that illegal immigrants are committing crimes in U.S. cities coast to coast.

March 19, 2024

Oregon man found guilty of murder after DNA links him to 1980 cold case

An Ore., judge has found man guilty of first-degree murder in a 1980s cold case involving a college student. The man was arrested in 2021 after DNA technology linked him to the crime.

March 18, 2024

Portland area residents commemorate victims of deadly 2021 heat wave by planting trees

Volunteers and family members of the people killed by a 2021 heat wave in the Pacific Northwest gathered in Oregon to plant trees in their memory.