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As the state deals with a huge budget problem, Governor John Kitzhaber has a solution: reform health care.

Hurley has been an outdoor door dog & spent time in a garage, now wants to be an indoor dog & a part of her new family! The Oregon Humane Society's Dog of the Week is Hurley .

A major change for same-sex couples on the west coast could come as early as Monday, as Washington 's Governor Christine Gregoire prepares to sign a bill to legalize gay marriage.

The Oregonian reports Portland State University biology Professor Debbie Duffield and Cascadia Research biologists performed a necropsy Sunday on the animal.

Seventy-nine inmates died in Oregon prisons in the past two years, and the Department of Corrections said nothing to the public about all but one of them.

With skyrocketing health care costs chewing an ever-larger share of Oregon's budget, Gov.

February 12, 2012 - Sierra Green,16, wins the Oregon Historical Society's first "Oregon History Idol" competition Sunday.

There is some good news for agate hunters on the central Oregon coast and February 18 is the date for a time-tripping look on a 5,000-mile paleo journey from a pair of "paleo-nerds," happening at the Surftides in Lincoln City at 1:30 p.m. Presented by the Sitka Center, "Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway" features artist Ray Troll and scientist Dr.

During Gov. John Kitzhaber's State of the State speech at the Portland City Club last month, he made it clear that one of his top priorities to tackle during this month's fast-paced legislative session was education reform.

Patrick Bowman opened Tualatin Pharmacy 11 months ago and says his business is building.

Galen Rupp won from in front Saturday at the USA Track & Field Classic in Fayetteville, Ark.

An Oregon regional drug team has charged two people with carrying $1 million worth of heroin on a bus that left California bound for Washington state.

Our ace photographer Q Madp, known for his role as the founder of IraqWarHeroes.org , was on scene to record the action.

The two Libyan Americans who were blocked from flying home to Oregon last month by the FBI are now being told only one can return with their attorney on Tuesday, a family member said.

Joseph Penna, 5, watches the robotic arms of a da Vinci Surgical Systems machine move rubber bands around a rubber site.

A vacation package to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, will be awarded to the Grand Prize winner of The Oregonian's 2012 Travel Photo Contest, which continues through Friday, Feb.

By Valerie Plummer and Wilda Parks Despite an assertion by The Oregonian's Harry Esteve that Economic Gardening is "untested" [Oregonian, February 4, 2012, "Fellow Lawmaker's Pet Program is Spared" ], Economic Gardening is a sustained, long-term strategy to grow jobs and create wealth by providing a suite of services to high potential second-stage ... (more)

On the final day of the legislative session last year. Lawmakers are back for a month-long session this month.

Why, in God's name, would anyone want to visit cemeteries? For us it began with a woman, and a name: Patience McMaster.

This July 9, 2011, trail camera image shows wolves from the Imnaha pack on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in northeastern Oregon.