Month: June 2019

After a long floor session in the Oregon Senate on Saturday, House bills 3450 and 3452 were the last to pass the Senate floor, both on 27-0 votes.…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon voters will decide next year whether the state should increase its tobacco tax. The Senate voted 18-8 Sunday to approve…

Damian Lillard wasn’t a top-five pick. Tobias Harris wasn’t a lottery pick. Khris Middleton wasn’t even a first-rounder. Their bank…

ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Hawks have traded Kent Bazemore to the Portland Trail Blazers for Evan Turner is a swap of high-priced players heading…

A driver who failed to stop at a stop sign was arrested in a Prineville traffic stop Friday evening after a drug-sniffing K-9’s alert turned up…

A raid on a dog breeding operation east of Madras on Saturday led to the seizure of 57 dogs living in “unsatisfactory living conditions”…

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Oregon State Police say a man was fatally struck by a vehicle on Interstate 5. The driver of the vehicle and his…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon will substantially narrow the use of the death penalty by limiting qualifying crimes. The Senate voted 17-10 Saturday…

(Update: More on victim’s recovery of tools) A Redmond woman’s report that her grandson stole her credit card and used it around the area…

Good evening Central Oregon! A nice day today on the High Desert, with warm temperatures. We are starting to see some clouds roll in across the…

A landmark paid family and medical leave insurance program passed the Oregon House Thursday, supporters said. The proposal, House Bill 2005, provides…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Undocumented immigrants in Oregon will legally be able to obtain driver’s licenses under a measure sent to the…

Happy Sunday, Central Oregon! Sunday through Monday, a large, upper-level trough will give us unstable conditions east of the Cascades. Sunday will…

A downtown Bend bank and real estate office had windows smashed out and were entered by a burglar late Friday night, but police said they did not…

The Oregon Senate voted Saturday to remove a small but common barrier standing between many Oregonians – particularly younger voters and working…

Children with intensive needs who are at risk of out-of-home placement will have new hope for services, with the passage Saturday of Senate Bill 1,…

Those who work in education and are accused of abuse won’t be able to just move on to other school districts without investigation, under a…

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Shoppers from Oregon and other states that don’t have a sales tax are losing their automatic tax break at…

(Updating throughout; 3 arrests) PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Competing demonstrations spilled into the streets of downtown Portland on Saturday, with…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon will overhaul the way it handles workplace harassment complaints within the Capitol months after allegations of sexual…