Portland Winter Light Festival kicks off on Friday, Feb. 7.The festival features more than 200 art installations across the ...

After last year’s historic and expensive wildfire season, lawmakers need to figure out a better way to pay for the state’s ...

A jury awarded another batch of wildfire survivors $50 million in the latest “mini trial” against PacifiCorp for its role in the 2020 Labor Day fires.

The damages are based on a June 2023 jury finding that the Berkshire Hathaway utility was grossly negligent and reckless in ...

The Bering Air Caravan was reported missing at about 4 p.m. while en route from Unalakleet to Nome with nine passengers and a pilot.

The vacant Blue Heron paper mill in Oregon City is now just a pile of rubble, still smoldering more than a week after a three ...

After deadly utility-caused fires in Washington, Utah and, most recently, Hawaii, officials in those states issued “cause and ...

The City of Portland is joining several local governments across the country suing the Trump administration over executive ...

Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire proposes that state firefighters work full time in place of the seasonal workforce the agency currently staffs for nine months each year.

As David Sarasohn wrote in The Oregonian’s 2010 review, these “fat shrimp, pink and sweet and gently charred with an ...

The city of Oregon says emergency repair work by Columbia Gas will require eastbound Navarre Avenue (SR 2) over I-280 to close beginning next week through late March. According to the city, eastbound ...

Roseburg firefighters said a stove-top fire killed two pets and caused severe smoke damage that displaced a family.