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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

Details: Written by Associated Press; Published: 19 October 2022

(Randy Rasmussen/The Oregonian via AP, File)

Walters, who became the first woman to serve as chief justice of the Supreme Court in 2018, is the second justice this month to announce a retirement

Details: Written by Associated Press; Published: 19 October 2022

Bullet holes are marked as evidence on the outer wall of Jefferson High School gym. (Photo/PPB)

Police said officers received reports that two teens wearing face masks fled after the shooting in a car that crashed nearby.

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 18 October 2022

Following Gonzalez’s latest remarks, leaders expressed outrage that Gonzalez pushed to elect school board candidates who put LGBTQ+ kids, Indigenous and Black kids, and other kids of color in harm's way

Details: Written by Saundra Sorenson; Published: 18 October 2022

The Beatrice Morrow Cannady house, circa 1911. (Image courtesy Oregon Historical Society Research Library)

Intisar Abioto wants to “reactivate” home of civil rights icon as Black artists’ sanctuary.

Details: Written by Steve Law, Portland Tribune; Published: 17 October 2022

A Ku Klux Klan meeting, likely in 1921, likely in Portland. (Courtesy Photo: Library of Congress, by way of Oregon Public Broadcasting)

In the 1920s, a resurgent Ku Klux Klan found a warm reception in the City of Roses and the rest of the state

Details: Written by By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America; Published: 17 October 2022

(Michael Sullivan/The News-Review via AP, File)

Both candidates will have to woo independent voters. There are more non-affiliated voters than both Democrats and Republicans in the district

Details: Written by DIANA OPONG KUOW; Published: 17 October 2022

As it celebrates 50 years as a ballet company, the Pacific Northwest Ballet is making history by naming Jonathan Batista as the first Black principal dancer in the history of company

Details: Written by Associated Press; Published: 14 October 2022

Health officials in Washington and Oregon said Thursday that a fall and winter COVID surge is likely headed to the Pacific Northwest after months of relatively low case levels.