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When Oregonians can rototill their gardens in March, but then have to water their lawns all throughout April and May, you know it's drier than usual. Experts say that through May 10th, it has been the driest start to the year on record at the Eugene and Salem airport weather stations, and the second driest start at Hyslop Farm in Corvallis and the Medford Airport.

Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney advocates paying the tuition and fees of up to 40 OHSU medical and dental students in exchange for their commitment to work in underserved, mostly rural, communities.

Prom season is here and high school students around Oregon continue to build memories that last a lifetime.

An Oregon Air Guard F-15 on the tarmac at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls. Oregon Air National Guard F-15s would be able to fly over expanded controlled airspaces and, in one case, lower in an existing zone, under a proposal being launched today by the National Guard Bureau and the Air Force.

This weekend brings an opportunity to reflect on two memorable episodes of Oregon military history, separated by nearly a century.

Solo home runs by Michael Conforto and Ryan Barnes, a four-hit day by Andy Peterson and a very successful homecoming for pitcher Andrew Moore lifted Oregon State to a 9-0 win over Oregon at PK Park on Saturday.

The Oregonian captured nine first-place awards in the 2012 Society of Professional Journalists Northwest Excellence in Journalism competition Saturday, including first place for general excellence among larger newspapers.

Oregon's immense harvest moves through Norpac's automated packaging plant with a metallic click and pneumatic hiss.

It's easy for Oregonians to see themselves as historically detached from issues that led up to the Civil War, especially when it comes to slavery.

Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley is being dragged into the partisan infighting surrounding revelations that the Internal Revenue Service wrongly targeted Tea Party groups seeking non-profit status.

Klamath Falls, Oregon-Law enforcement officials thwarted a Mexican cartel-linked narcotics operation with a number of raids in the early morning hours of May 16, 2013.

Jeff Lauderdale sorts pine lumber April 25 at the Rough & Ready Lumber Co. mill in O'Brien, Ore.

Mel Rader, a co-director of Upstream Public Health and a fluoride advocate, sits next to Angel Lambart and her daughter in December.

The Oregon Ducks are hosting an NCAA softball regional Thursday-Saturday in Eugene.

There are quite a few heavy hitters among the chef lineup for the 2013 Feast Portland .

Washington County Commissioner Greg Malinowski is among a slew of statewide county officials opposing a bill that would automatically register an estimated 500,000 potential Oregon voters.

An initiative that would allow utilities to count all hydroelectric power toward renewable energy requirements was approved this week for signature gathering .

An Oregon judge has sentenced a Nevada couple who received $229,000 in unjustified payments from state and county agencies and an insurance company.

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Got bees? Managers for the Portland Center for the Performing Arts discovered a hive of about 2,500 honeybees clinging to the building's south outside wall Thursday.