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Post election, colleges encourage students to decompress

Last weekend, 13 of the best roller derby teams in the world were in Portland competing in the International World Flat Track Derby Association championships. It was hosted (and WON!) by Portland’s own Rose City Rollers who this year celebrated their 20th anniversary.

For the first time, Portlanders used ranked choice voting to select their mayor and city council members. They ranked candidates in order of preference, and their votes got distributed as candidates were eliminated. So how did it go?

Broadman claims victory in his Oregon Senate race, Vander Kamp leads the Deschutes sheriff race, and Bend City Council has two new members.

Salem-Keizer will have weapon detection systems operating in all six comprehensive high schools this school year, with a likely expansion to middle schools next year. Here’s what you need to know.

Oregon conservationist Bob Sallinger dead at 57

Stop Requested joins the weekly Christmas Valley Shopper Bus into La Pine.

Oregon needs more housing, but challenges getting electrical equipment could hurt the effort.

The Oregon Ducks’ #1 national ranking has led a supportive fanbase of students to new emotional highs for the green and yellow.

Let's do the time change together -- it's DST time again

Weekend Edition host Lillian Karabaic interviews a haunted house actor for OPB's At Work With series

The majority of the world’s population of the once-endangered Bradshaw’s lomatium was destroyed a few weeks ago on a golf course in Camas, Washington. Some experts are worried that the removal is a sign of species losing federal protections too soon.

The Cora Center is the first psilocybin facility in the state that is run by majority BIPOC and LGBTQ+ facilitators. They help clients from those groups get over cultural barriers to treatment, like trauma and stigma.

Voting for president while Black and mixed race in Bend

Candidates running for office in Portland this fall are navigating uncharted waters, and that means trying out different strategies.

Proposed shipping container terminal in Coos Bay could boost the economy there

For At Work With, we follow haunted house actor Shell Galloway.

Stop Requested goes to Oregon's Mile High City, Lakeview. By bus.

Starting next year, Oregon will have a new attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer. All three seats are open with no incumbent running, and Republicans believe they have a shot in one of the three.

The federal government postponed a floating offshore wind auction off the coast of Southern Oregon. Many still see the potential, but the state must first tackle a combination of issues that led to the postponement.

The Gresham program growing the next generation of farmers

44 years after Mt St Helens erupted, Spirit Lake still faces challenges

Oregonians will vote on five statewide measures in the upcoming election. If approved, they would all do very different things, from directing yearly checks to all residents to allowing the Legislature to impeach statewide leaders.

Drama surrounds the race for Deschutes county sheriff

The congressional race in Oregon that has the nation's attention