SEATTLE (AP) -- The state Department of Social and Health Services has hired a Muslim consultant to provide cultural and dietary advice to foster parents for seven children taken from the Seattle home of an Ethiopian refugee...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A survey by The Oregonian has found that most of the estimated 2,400 new teachers who graduated from Oregon colleges this year were unable to get hired anywhere in the state...

The effort to recall Mayor Sam Adams failed Monday, when the campaign failed to collect 32,183 signatures – the number necessary to force a special recall election within the regulation 90-day window.

Oregon Health & Science University is limiting visitors younger than 12 to many of its inpatient units and begin screening all visitors for the presence of an influenza-like illness.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- John Kitzhaber and Bill Bradbury go back quite a ways. When Kitzhaber was governor, he appointed Bradbury as Oregon secretary of state in 1999. They are close friends, so close that Kitzhaber jokingly dubbed the tall and lanky Bradbury the "Big Chinook," after Bradbury's advocacy of Oregon's iconic fish ...

Three million current or former Washington residents have a stake in $700 million in unclaimed property being held by the Washington State Department of Revenue. You may be one of them.

Paddling the Willamette River can be both a serene and chaotic experience – migrating cormorants, blue herons and other water fowl; the concrete, steel and wood remains of Portland's industrial past; the toxic dead zones and Superfund sites along the river.Oregon Attorney General John Kroger is leading the state's fight against pollution with the office's first ever unit designed to investigate the state's biggest environmental crimes perpetrators...

Washington state's 2008 payday lending statistics show a downturn in the number of payday loan companies, but an increase in the use of their services over the past two years.

If a young person knocks on your door and says they're selling magazines for a charity, wait before reaching for your pocketbook. The Washington Attorney General's Office, which issued a warning about Fresh Start Opportunities in March, says solicitors have returned to Washington state.

One of North Portland's most heartbreaking anniversaries passed quietly this week – the killing of Debbie Peyton and Shango Wade.