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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- David Brock Smith won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Oregon on Friday, in the last significant race to be called following the state's May 19 primary election.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon voters on Tuesday rejected a gas tax increase passed last year by Democratic lawmakers, a victory for Republicans who put the issue to voters just as the war with Iran was causing prices at the pump to soar.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon voters on Tuesday rejected a gas tax increase passed last year by Democratic lawmakers, a victory for Republicans who put the issue to voters just as the war with Iran was causing prices at the pump to soar.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon voters are facing a familiar theme on their primary ballot Tuesday -- well-financed Democratic incumbents looking to slide past little-known challengers while Republicans attempt to nominate candidates who could put up a fight in November in a heavily blue state.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Appealing to voters' anxieties about the soaring cost of living is central to Democrats' messaging in their hopes of big wins in this year's midterm elections. In Oregon, a question on the primary ballot is complicating that strategy.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- An appeals court has paused lower court rulings in Oregon that restricted federal officers' use of tear gas during protests at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A group of Democratic U.S. senators sent a letter Thursday to the U.S. Postal Service, voicing concern that mail processing changes could affect postmark dates for mail-in ballots during an election year that will determine control of Congress.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Ten Democratic secretaries of state asked the Trump administration Tuesday to provide more information about its wide-ranging efforts to seek statewide voter registration lists, citing concerns that federal agencies have apparently misled them and might be entering the data in a program used to verify U.S. citizenship.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Sixteen states and the District of Columbia sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Friday, alleging that its threats to pull sexual education funding over curricula mentioning diverse gender identities were a violation of federal law.
WASCO, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden is in his fifth decade in Congress and showing no inclination to step aside even as pressure builds on aging Democratic officeholders to give way to a new generation.
The Trump administration said in court filings Wednesday that it was working to bring back a Guatemalan man who was deported to Mexico in spite of his fears of being harmed there, days after a federal judge ordered the administration to facilitate his return.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Monica Truax has lived in her Portland home since 1992, on a cul-de-sac she described as a close-knit community. But since a bottle redemption center opened next door several years ago, her block has struggled with drug dealing, garbage and fights in the middle of the night, she said.
Universities across the U.S. have announced hiring freezes, citing new financial uncertainty as the Trump administration threatens a range of cuts to federal contracts and research grants. Some have announced layoffs.
Universities across the U.S. have announced hiring freezes, citing new financial uncertainty as the Trump administration threatens a range of cuts to federal contracts and research grants.
Two of President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting the rights of transgender and nonbinary people face court challenges filed Friday.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- An Oregon judge on Monday ordered the city at the heart of a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling on homeless encampments to temporarily pause enforcement of its camping rules, in response to a lawsuit filed by advocates against the city.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon homeowners who live in certain high-risk wildfire areas defined by the state must now meet new building codes and reduce vegetation around their homes under new "wildfire hazard maps" unveiled Tuesday.
President-elect Donald Trump has once again suggested he wants to revert the name of North America's tallest mountain -- Alaska's Denali -- to Mount McKinley, wading into a sensitive and decades-old conflict about what the peak should be called.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A businessman with no experience in public office is taking over as mayor of Oregon's biggest city as it embraces an entirely new system of government -- one that's so different, the City Council chambers had to be completely renovated.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Voters in Portland, Oregon, have elected political outsider Keith Wilson as their new mayor, following a campaign in which he capitalized on years of growing frustration over homeless encampments, open drug use and quality of life concerns to outperform three City Council members -- including one ensnared in a driving record scandal -- who had also...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- One of the most competitive U.S. House races in the country is playing out in Oregon, where the state's GOP-held 5th Congressional District is among just over two dozen seats nationwide that are considered toss ups.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Some voters living in areas that recently experienced rainy or humid weather have reported receiving ballot return envelopes that are already sealed shut because of moisture dampening mail, elections officials say.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A lot of political changes are coming to Portland, Oregon.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon authorities said Monday they had removed another 302 people from the state's voter rolls after determining they didn't provide proof of citizenship when they were registered to vote, in the latest revelation of improper voter registrations stemming from clerical errors at the state DMV.