President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" cuts social safety net programs like SNAP to rein in government spending.

A Portland-area mother and her four U.S.-born children have been detained by federal immigration officials for two weeks, an ...

Small hospitals in Washington state are facing a difficult economic future. Their finances will likely become worse because ...

Large companies will start paying into a program to expand and unify Oregon's recycling system, helping more cities offer ...

Those are the loans that allow shoppers, usually online, to break up a purchase into installments — a way to pay that’s ...

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At OPB, investigative reporting is at the heart of our mission to serve the public and strengthen and protect our democracy. Local news coverage in our region has diminished considerably over the ...

Heat-related illnesses can affect anyone. Officials say prolonged exposure to extreme heat without relief can cause health ...

The proposed budget bill would increase logging on federal lands, but most of that money won't go to Oregon counties that ...

State lawmakers didn't pass a signature transportation package but they did tackle other topics.

Sen. Mark Meek, D-Gladstone, says he plans to vote no on the transportation bill. “I just think we’re crossing the lines of what Oregonians are expecting of us," he said in an interview with ...

A Democratic senator’s removal from a key committee Friday inspired backlash from some in the party.