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 ...

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

If everything proceeds as expected, crews will begin construction on a new Interstate Bridge over the Columbia River in 2027, ...

President Trump has called for blanket tariffs on U.S. trading partners. To prepare, Oregonians have been buying consumer ...

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

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 ...

Every two years, Americans get a snapshot of the health of the country’s schools. Education advocates hoped the 2024 scores would show a promising rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic. But the ...

Courtesy of Hoedads Inc. Note: This is part of a series on the workers performing labor-intensive forestry. That’s all the work in this country’s forests that isn’t logging — vital ...

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 ...