The fatal Vancouver police shooting of a gun-toting Oregon National Guardsman Tuesday has drawn attention back to an investigation of Joint Base Lewis-McChord's alleged failure to provide full and timely services to guard members.

Playwright Reginald Andre Jackson admits he got lucky. Lucky he was commissioned to create a play from a novel with good source material. Lucky the author actually liked the performance. And lucky it was actually published.  But luck had little to do with the hard work Jackson put into ...

It's hard enough to organize a 40th class reunion. But when your school has been closed since 1981, the task is even harder.

It's hard enough to organize a 40th class reunion. But when your school has been closed since 1981, the task is even harder.

SEATTLE (AP) -- A deadly week in the Puget Sound area continued Saturday with the death of a 25-year-old Sultan man in a confrontation with Snohomish County sheriff's deputies.

An expert witness for the prosecution testified Tuesday that Islamic charities based in Saudi Arabia, including the one an Oregon tree surgeon is accused of smuggling money for, were regular conduits of funding to Muslim fighters in the volatile Caucasus region.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- A 127-year-old building at the Oregon State Hospital is getting a fresh coat of paint.

After working his way up for 20 years at the Oregon Convention Center, Event Services Director Mark Williams has moved on to different pastures. A pasture filled with lions, tigers and bears at the Oregon Zoo.

In an unassuming building, the new Gateway Center for Domestic Violence sits nestled inside the Gateway Children's campus in East Portland. Off the MAX blue line at 102nd and Burnside Street, the yellow building will be a one-stop shop for women and men who feel unsafe in their relationships.

For a week, a group of homeless people had made a clean and well-organized camp in an industrial part of Portland. Nestled in between a fenced-off area of Water Bureau property and a blackberry-covered hill on North Wheeler Avenue, the residents thought they had discovered a perfect, out-of-the-way place to live.