Plans for cleanup of the Hanford nuclear reservation’s 56 million gallons of radioactive waste near Richland, WA are moving ...

Records detail "serious incidents of misconduct" long before Kent Vander Kamp rose through the ranks of the Deschutes County ...

Oregon’s largest gas utility as well as a research institute have been added as two new defendants in Multnomah County’s $52 ...

Nearly a dozen people were forced to leave Clackamas Road on Monday, after the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners voted ...

Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB There have been 288 cases of whooping cough in Clark County, Washington, this year. That’s more cases than in the last six years combined. So far, Clark County has ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. The Justice Department sued Google for allegedly using its dominance to control the search engine market. In August ...

Erik Neumann is OPB’s Southwest Washington Bureau Chief. He has more than a decade of experience as a radio reporter, writer and editor. Before working at OPB, he was the news director at ...

Mount Adams, about 70 miles north of Portland, is one of the sleepiest active volcanoes in the Cascade Range. A small earthquake every few years is typical. But it’s shaken up expectations recently — ...

He lost his job. He lost his car. He nearly lost his apartment. Worse than that, he says, his addiction has hurt his family. “I went [to lunch] with my auntie and I saw such sadness in her eyes ...

When he was just 18 years old, Emmanuel Akatire traveled about 500 miles from his home in Zorko, Ghana, to Accra, the nation’s capital, to find the only work he could — sifting through vast ...

The student athletes and coaches for David Douglas High School’s Football team in Portland say they’ve faced racist chants and slurs during most of their away games. David Douglas is one of ...