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Oregon’s gubernatorial race pits three candidates with two climate philosophies and asks one policy question to voters in November: How green is green enough? Wildfires loom, groundwater is disappeari...

The commission that oversees the state’s beleaguered public defense system voted Thursday to offer the executive director job to Portland lawyer Jessica Kampfe.

Children ages 5-11 in Oregon are now eligible for the new updated bivalent booster, Oregon Health Authority (OHA) announced today in a media availability. OHA also gave a summary of the latest COVID-19 data and trends and the status of the ongoing response to monkeypox (hMPXV) in Oregon. "Yesterday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) expanded Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of COVID-19 vaccine boosters for children 5-11,&qu...

Proposed large homeless centers spark city, county fight, Local News, Portland local News, Breaking News alerts for Portland city.

Adrienne Nelson, having gotten hearty endorsements from Oregons U.S. senators and many others, awaits a vote of a Senate committee and the Senate itself on her nomination as a U.S.

The surge is expected to peak in early December, but wont reach the heights of the delta and omicron waves.

Oregon's Public Defense Services Commission decided Thursday to select Jessica Kampfe as the new executive director of the Office of Public Defense Services. Kampfe currently runs Multnomah Defenders Inc., a public defense nonprofit in Portland. Kampfe will inherit a state agency that's currently left hundreds of people without constitutionally-required legal support.

Police: Deputy shot woman who pointed gun at him, Local News, Portland local News, Breaking News alerts for Portland city.

During a hearing Wednesday in Washington D.C., Adrienne Nelson, an associate justice on the Oregon Supreme Court, told senators she brings an open mind, impartiality to each case. "I try to communicate all decisions clearly, so that they can be understood," Nelson testified. "And if I’m so fortunate to be confirmed, I would continue to do that.”

Democrats have won every Oregon governor’s race since 1986. Betsy Johnson’s unexpectedly strong bid has threatened that reign.