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Letter from the Editor: The Nora story evolves into book project Updated Mar 07, 2021; Facebook Share From time to time, a newspaper story is so compelling it becomes a book. But not without a lot of work. And, now, this month, it will hit the shelves. The book project arose from his coverage of Nora, the polar bear cub that lived at the Oregon Zoo for a time and, now grown, is due back there soon. Williams’ five-part series for The Oregonian/OregonLive, featuring photography by Dave Killen, won numerous journalism prizes but a full-length book treatment wasn’t really on his mind.

Could Measure 11′s mandatory prison sentences disappear? Legislation would do away with landmark law’s minimum terms and give violent offenders chance to earn early release Updated on Feb 27, 2021; Published on Feb 27, 2021 Inside Oregon State Penitentiary, January 22, 2020 Beth Nakamura/Staff Twitter Share A quarter-century has passed since Oregon voters said yes to a law that would profoundly reshape how the state treats its most violent offenders. Measure 11 created a class of crimes that in the eyes of voters deserved longer prison sentences and ensured people convicted of those o...

We’ll wrap up the last weekend of February with another day of showers, some of which may include hail, and then two mostly dry days. The National Weather Service says an unstable air mass over northwestern Oregon will continue to bring showers, some with hail through the metro area Friday. There’s also a slight possibility of thunderstorms along the foothills of the Cascades. The high will be ...

More than 21,000 customers were still without power in northwest Oregon on Monday morning, 10 days after a series of powerful ice storms walloped utilities across the region. Some homes and businesses may have to wait another seven days for service to return, officials said. The majority of the outages were in Clackamas County, where more than 10,700 people were still in the dark as of 6 a.m. ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Members of the Oregon National Guard delivered supplies to people...