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Details: Written by By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press; Published: 27 October 2022

The penalty issued by King County Superior Court Judge Douglass North was the maximum allowed for more than 800 violations of Washington's Fair Campaign Practices Act

Details: Written by By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press; Published: 27 October 2022

(AP Photo/Andrew Selsky, File)

The head of the U.S. Forest Service has denounced the arrest by an Oregon sheriff of a Forest Service employee after a planned burn in a national forest spread onto private land.

Details: Written by By Steve Law Portland Tribune; Published: 26 October 2022

Courtesy Photo: Oregon Historical Society

Barely one year after the reconstituted KKK expanded operations into Oregon, the Klan claimed 14,000 members here, 9,000 of them in Portland.

Details: Written by By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press; Published: 25 October 2022

(AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

Amid the boom, dense city neighborhoods are rapidly becoming pressure points in the patchy transition to electrification.

Details: Written by By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press; Published: 24 October 2022

(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

The two candidates also discussed immigration, gun control, and the insurrection in their only scheduled debate before the Nov. 8 election.

Details: Written by By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press; Published: 21 October 2022

(AP Photo/Steve Dipaola)

The election of either candidate would be historic: McLeod-Skinner would be Oregon’s first openly gay congressional delegate, while Chavez-DeRemer is aspiring to be the first Oregon Latina elected to Congress.

Details: Written by By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press; Published: 21 October 2022

A school board member and his 20-year-old stepson turned themselves in last week to face charges of assaulting and interfering with police during the insurrection.

Details: Written by By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press; Published: 20 October 2022

(AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte, File)

Oregon's proposed change repeals its exception clause while adding language allowing a court or probation or parole agency to order alternatives to incarceration as part of sentencing.

Details: Written by By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America; Published: 20 October 2022

(Erickson Campaign via AP)

A population boom made Oregon one of just six states to gain an additional seat in the U.S. House following the 2020 census. The state’s population jumped by more than 10% in the past decade