President-elect Donald Trump is planning on taking the country in a different direction than Democratically led Washington ...

Multnomah County officials say 91 people have started a new drug addiction program, but the outcomes remain unclear.

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President-elect Donald Trump announced he plans to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human ...

Last year, U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler, a New York Republican, introduced legislation that would have prohibited the district from ...

The Associated Press called the 5th Congressional District for Democrat Janelle Bynum on Thursday morning, meaning Democrats ...

Democrat Janelle Bynum has defeated incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer and will give Oregon a 5-1 Democratic majority in Congress, the third time she has beaten her Republican rival in ...

Oregon mostly held to its usual political patterns this election, but there was change, especially in the 5th Congressional ...

Oregon’s U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat, vowed at a Portland town hall to pass a relief bill by the end of the year, ...

Increased costs for schools to the Public Employee Retirement System could more than erase the governor’s proposed boost to ...

Northwest could hold megatons of planet-warming emissions but the infrastructure needed for that is new and costly.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans on Wednesday elected South Dakota Sen. John Thune as that chamber’s next majority leader ...