The Oregon Public Utility Commission unanimously approved Portland General Electric’s rate hike for large energy users to take effect Wednesday. Residential rates will go down 1.3%.

Oregon’s northernmost beaches will close to razor clam harvesting starting next week and lasting through the end of the summer, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Wednesday. The ...

Mitch Borden/KNKX At a watch party for the U.S.-Australia match on Juneteenth in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, hundreds of people set up lawn chairs and laid out blankets in the park outside the ...

Wolgamott started his career as a Wildland Firefighter for the United States Forest Service in 2012. His life was often dictated by where the flames were burning; for work he lived in Gold Beach, Bly, ...

In a test of a new state law, doctors in Eugene went up against a national physician staffing firm seeking to replace them.

But a bipartisan group of Oregon coastal lawmakers wants the agency to reverse that decision, saying it could rock the commercial and sportfishing industries that their communities rely on. BPA ...

The deaths of three U.S. government firefighters in a Colorado wildfire are casting a spotlight on the Trump administration’s creation of a new federal fire service and its revival of a previously ...

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Courtesy of Gov. Tina Kotek's office Last Thursday, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek announced she had accepted the resignation of the director of the Oregon Health Authority, Dr. Sejal Hathi. As OPB reported, ...