Portland's sewer system combines sewage and runoff into the same pipes. Sometimes heavy rains cause those pipes to overflow. But a sewer overhaul 14 years ago has drastically reduced this pollution.

Unions and attorneys who represent federal employees are telling workers not to take the offer from the Trump administration ...

Water flows from a tap in this file photo. Three Southwest Washington cities are considering new restrictions on fluoride in drinking water. Rebecca Roberts Galloway / OPB Longview, Camas and Battle ...

Toni Powell had a tumultuous life in Los Angeles, surviving foster care, domestic violence and addiction. So, in 2020, after her mother died of cancer, she decided to move away. She had seen ...

Hassett didn’t find much in the ash at his family’s Pacific Palisades house, uncovering only some pottery and assorted kitchenware. “It’s nice to find those little things that, you know ...

Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB Oregon needs to build about 29,500 more homes each year, mostly in the Portland region and Willamette Valley, to emerge from a housing shortage years in the making, the ...

Oded Balilty / AP OSWIECIM, Poland — The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the site of the former death camp, a ceremony that is ...

The biggest question this session is about how much money the state will invest in public schools for the next biennium. But it’s not the only question. Oregon lawmakers kicked off the 2025 ...

Earlier this month, a levee separating Agency Lake and the Upper Klamath National Wildlife Refuge was breached, reconnecting ...

Two of the pro-Palestinian protesters charged with obstructing Interstate 5 in Eugene last year were acquitted on Thursday. More than 60 people were arrested last April for blocking traffic to ...

On Friday morning, homeless residents dragged tarps and carried piles on their backs, heaping their belongings just outside ...