After installing paid parking meters on the bayfront last year, Newport is looking at doing the same in a second location, ...

The extreme sport of ultrarunning is known for seemingly impossible feats. But Stephanie Case's recent performance — six ...

An unusual couple of nesters has attracted the attention of Portland-area birders drawn to a story about the peculiarities of nature.

A Linn County judge invalidated an essential permit for a proposed chicken farm east of Salem on Tuesday. Local residents and ...

A new study by Oregon State University researchers reveals the growing risk climate change poses to the survival of thousands ...

Train enthusiasts young and old enjoy in the magical worlds of backyard railroads. On June 14, the Rose City Garden Railway Society will host its annual summer tour in the Portland metro area.

Anna Lueck for OPB Oregon lawmakers looking for a new source of money to fight wildfires this year have come up with few slam-dunk answers. Now one option that is often considered politically ...

Half of them attend Whitman College, which at one time had the greatest percentage of students from very wealthy families and the lowest percentage of students from poor families of any college in ...

It seems to have worked: on Friday, the Federal Communications Commission approved Verizon’s $20 billion deal to buy broadband provider Frontier Communications. The FCC said that the deal will ...

Netflix has thrown “Sesame Street” a safety net with a new streaming deal that offers the popular children’s staple a broad reach while keeping it on its long-standing home, PBS, at the same ...

A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration’s takeover of the United States Institute of Peace, saying the president exceeded his authority when he fired the board members and ...

Simone Risoluti / AP ROME — At a meeting between Vice President JD Vance and Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Monday, the vice president presented the first U.S. pontiff — a Chicago native ...