No foul play suspected after John Walsh fell into the Columbia River late Saturday, city staff said in a statement. In this provided photo, a small memorial for St. Helens City Administrator John ...

Bob Packwood, a longtime Oregon Senator who entered national politics young and ascended to the pinnacles of congressional power before his career ended in scandal, died Saturday. He was 93. Packwood ...

A brief moment of bipartisanship in the U.S. Senate turned political on Wednesday, when Republican lawmakers introduced a new provision to a wildfire bill. That bill, called the Wildfire Prevention ...

Alex Zielinski covers Portland city politics. Prior to joining OPB, Alex covered city government for the Portland Mercury. She’s also worked as a journalist in San Antonio, Texas, and Washington, D.C.

The court also struck a response to a petition in a separate case over AI-generated falsehoods. The cases are the first time ...

There’s no guarantee Oregonians will see a ball game, but proponents say the bill keeps Portland’s hopes of a professional baseball team alive. A rendering provided by the Portland Diamond Project ...

Lerett, who is identifying with an alias, sits outside a memorial outside of the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement building in Portland on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. “Our system is broken and we ...

Joni Auden Land / OPB Over the past five years, more than 36 million acres of land have burned in wildfires across the United States. But the impacts of those wildfires reached far beyond the areas ...

“Overall crime in Portland continues to go down, and significantly so in some key categories,” said Mayor Ted Wheeler at a Wednesday press conference. “We’re trending in the right direction.” ...

Hours after a deadly chemical tank rupture in Longview, Washington, killed at least one person and left nine others missing, hundreds of people on Tuesday night met for a vigil in the city’s heart to ...

Editor’s note: On Friday, officials in Longview announced that they had recovered another person from the site of the tank rupture, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths to nine. Crews ...

Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP The contrast is striking: In Europe, some people whose names come up in the Epstein files are facing consequences — but in the U.S., not so much. European royals, government ...