A court hearing for a Eugene couple charged with aggravated murder in the death of their teen daughter.

By Jeff Cogen Imagine a future where the gas pump is as obsolete as the rotary phone, where plugging in the car after work will seem as normal as charging your cell phone.

Most Oregonians probably identify Bill Bradbury as a former Secretary of State, and the person who oversaw the implementation of Oregon's vote-by-mail system, the envy of many others with less functional voting systems.

Prompted by the death of a 15-year-old girl, Oregon's Department of Human Services has decided to study whether age plays a factor when welfare workers choose which cases to investigate.

Oregon legislators have rocketed through the first week of a four-week legislative session, but things will get tougher next week.

Supporters of Oregon's Measures 66 and 67 appear at a rally in Portland, Ore., Jan.

The Oregon Senate passed "Heat Smart" Bill 102 last year in an effort help clean up the environment by exorcising over 300,000 non-certified wood burning stovesA from Oregon homes.

Oregon voters may face a vote on the state's popular and unique "kicker" tax rebates before they get another kicker check.

If you're one of the estimated 140,000 low-income adult Oregonians without health insurance, you have a chance at winning state-subsidized coverage.

It's hard not to look south to Oregon with some sense of envy. Not only has Portland successfully out-sourced its suburbs, but it maintains its rep as a cool, livable, transit-oriented place that has most of the virtues of a Northwest city with few of the downsides.

The state Employment Department reports that initial claims for unemployment insurance benefits fell by 1,300 the week ending Jan.

Oregon Health & Science University has hired Connie Seeley as chief of staff, a newly created position in which she will manage government relations and a variety of functions for the university's leadership team.

Oregon's state legislators are sitting pretty. At least prettier than most. What's on tap in Salem? Gov.

Janice Thompson at Common Cause Oregon pores over campaign finance reports like many citizens read the sports page or stock prices.

Election Day: The eyes of the nation are on Oregon. Since the U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts last week , conservatives have been crowing that anti-tax fervor has arisen again to majority status - and will be sweeping across the nation in 2010.

Voters in Oregon have sent a signal: Some tax hikes can win popular support even amid a deep economic downturn.

Ballot counting Wednesday showed that, by a roughly 54-to-46 margin, Oregonians supported two measures, one raising income taxes on top brackets and the other raising taxes on business.

The outcome on Measures 66 and 67 doesn't mean that Americans generally are in a mood to raise taxes. But it could signal acceptance of at least one tax boost supported on the national level by President Obama a " higher levies on people earning more than $125,000 (or $250,000 for households).

Oregon's state legislators are sitting pretty. At least prettier than most. When they go into session Monday, they do so with voters having approved new taxes on the wealthy and on businesses, adding about $727 million in state revenues during the next two years.

The state Department of Transportation said 381 people died on Oregon roadways in 2009, the lowest figure since the late 1940s.

Oregon drivers who hold their cell phones to talk now a $142 traffic ticket. But a new study says handsfree laws don't do much to reduce crashes, reports The Oregonian .

After two terms as Oregon's poet laureate, Lawson Inada feels he has established a pattern - traveling across the state to plant seeds of poetry - that will remain for all future holders of the honor.