But they say the flu rate remains higher than in a typical season and could rebound during the holiday season as families and partygoers get together.

Oregon's unemployment rate for October remained unchaged from September, despite the 1,900 jobs lost last month.

Deportations of illegal immigrants with criminal records from Alaska, Oregon, and Washington this past year spiked by nearly 40 percent, while overall removals dropped for the first time in five years, according to new data released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The site of the proposed LNG plant in Warrenton looking towards Astoria. The liquefied natural gas company Oregon LNG has gotten two important thumbs up on its controversial lease with the Port of Astoria, boosting prospects for its plans to build a terminal on 92 acres near Youngs Bay.

Gov. Ted Kulongoski has asked two state agency heads to quickly review whether Oregon's increasingly expensive incentives for renewable energy companies are necessary, especially for wind energy.

Oregon employment officials will announce Monday morning the state's unemployment numbers for October, but state employers are getting word this week that they'll have to pay more in payroll taxes to keep the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund in balance.

Oregon's hunger rate is growing, according to a new federal report. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's annual report on Household Food Security released Monday, Nov.

Eucario Perez Lopez dials for jobs recently at an Oregon Employment Department office in Portland.

Oregon's Governor, Ted Kulongoski, offers his high opinion of Oregon soldiers to Master Sgt.

By GOV. TED KULONGOSKI The Sunday, Nov. 1, story by The Oregonian's Harry Esteve, "State lowballed cost of green tax breaks," implied that I or my staff directed former state energy director Mike Grainey to manipulate or falsify cost estimates for the Business Energy Tax Credit when we expanded the program in 2007 to grow Oregon's renewable energy ...

Farhad "Fred" Monem is beyond the reach of prosecutors in his native Iran. He is accused of taking $1.2 million in bribes while in his job overseeing Oregon's prison food program.

Opponents of a $733 million tax increase aimed at corporations and wealthy Oregonians told a judge Thursday the process used to draft a pair of ballot titles is unconstitutional.

John Neuman creates certificates and engraves Oregon Honorable Service medals in his travel trailer shortly before a veterans ceremony Sunday.

Opponents of a $733 million tax increase aimed at corporations and wealthy Oregonians are headed to court to challenge the wording on a pair of ballot titles they claim are 'biased' and could influence how voters decide the issue.

Oregon, you read. A lot. In fact, our public library patrons regularly check out more books annually than readers in almost any other state in the country.

Gov. Ted Kulongoski has made another surprise trip to Iraq to visit Oregon National Guard troops.

Thousands of people who want the H1N1 vaccine have been denied the shot, but some prisoners across Oregon will get the vaccine before many other people.

The second recall effort has asked for an estimate to gather signatures from the same right-wing firm that used convicted sex offenders to gather signatures for 14 conservative initiatives this summer.

Selma native Kristy Lee Cook will perform at the annual Veterans Day Ceremony at the Oregon Fallen War Heroes Memorial in Central Point.

Oregon Anti-Crime Alliance spokeswoman Tara Lawrence said Friday that courts and district attorneys around Oregon are being saddled with extra costs and workload from having to conduct thousands of resentencing reviews.