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Tobacco company Philip Morris USA Inc. must pay Oregon 60 percent of a $79.5 million award in a long-running lawsuit filed by the family of a Portland smoker, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.
The National Guard will allow an Oregon recruit the $20,000 bonus it promised her in 2007, even though it believes the money was among $34 million worth of incentives improperly granted in recent years.
Oregon Republicans on Wednesday called on Rep. David Wu to sign a resignation letter immediately and let his district get on with electing a successor.
Josh Seater could have done some serious harm when he stepped up to the wrought-iron fence around a Portland reservoir last month if he were holding something more ominous than a full bladder.
Oregon's famous Pendleton Round-Up has been hauled into court over an aroma you don't normally associate with a rodeo grounds, bucking broncs and steer wrestling: cologne.
For five hours early Wednesday the Pacific Northwest was running green, almost all of its electricity coming from hydroelectric dams in a river system flush with spring runoff.
Reddening, a rivulet of sweat running across her cheek, Amy McCullough hunched over the stationary bike, pumped her legs like crazy and began producing serious power — enough watts to run a flat-panel TV and a ceiling fan.
Two autistic boys who were held in a caged room at an apartment will remain in state foster care for now, Clark County Superior Court Commissioner Carin Schienberg decided Thursday at a hearing.
Jose Arguelles, an art historian whose teachings about the Mayan calendar inspired the harmonic convergence event of 1987, has died at age 72.
When the big one hits the Pacific Northwest, the best place to escape the wall of water moving at jetliner speed from 50 miles off the coast may be a City Hall on stilts.
Defense lawyers seeking a new trial for an official of an Islamic charity that was declared a terrorist organization say federal prosecutors must provide more evidence about their failure to disclose that the FBI wanted to pay a prosecution witness after the trial.
A Scouts leader in Portland subjected a boy to hundreds of instances of fondling, sodomy, oral sex and masturbation in the 1980s, even though Scout and Mormon Church leaders had been warned for years that the man was an abuser, a suit filed Tuesday alleges.
Oregon Republicans are funding a test re-count of the votes for governor in three Multnomah County precincts, aiming to see whether major irregularities turn up that would warrant a broader re-count.
A 19-year-old Somali-American man has pleaded not guilty to an alleged plot to blow up a car bomb at an Oregon Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland.
A Somali-born teenager plotted "a spectacular show" of terrorism for months, saying he didn't mind that children would die if he bombed a crowded Christmas tree-lighting ceremony, according to a law-enforcement official and court documents.
Sea lions that have faced death by lethal injection for making banquets of endangered fish in the Columbia River won a reprieve Tuesday when a federal appeals court told Oregon and Washington wildlife officials to cease killing them.
Democrat John Kitzhaber and Republican Chris Dudley have been in a dead heat in Oregon for weeks in a governor's race about fresh perspectives versus experience. Polls and the candidates say it's still a dead heat just days ahead of Tuesday's election.
One of the few economic news for Oregon in the past few years shows how far the state has to go to recover from the Great Recession, economists say.
Intel Corp.'s plan to expand its Oregon operations is a shot of good news for the state on the jobs front. But economists say it also shows how far the state has to go.
When President Barack Obama stumps for Democratic governor candidate John Kitzhaber this week in Oregon, it's inevitable that comparisons will be made with a Portland rally two years ago.
Prosecutors in the trial of the Oregon leader of an Islamic charity branch used appeals to provoke prejudice and emotion that included waving the Quran in the air and throwing it on the table in front of jurors, his lawyers say in a request for a new trial.
Oregon's treasury is so depleted that teachers and state workers are getting pink slips, but the state is nevertheless on course to send millions in tax rebates next year to businesses that have done well through the Great Recession by paring their own payrolls.
Six men who were sexually abused three decades ago by a leader of their Boy Scouts troop have settled lawsuits against the national organization dedicated to building character among youngsters.
Prosecutors provided a glimpse Wednesday of their strategy in the upcoming trial of a father and son accused of killing two law enforcement officers in an Oregon bank explosion, saying the defendants harbored anti-government sentiment and were jubilant over the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
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