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Just over three years since Oregon voters passed Ballot Measure 110, elected officials want to repeal key elements, blaming the law for open drug use and soaring overdoses. But it’s their own hands-off approach that isn’t working, advocates say.

Newport is trying to lure airlines back to town

Founded in 1978, Bob’s Red Mill initially served only the Portland area, but over the years it grew into a global corporation selling more than 200 products.

Sports Betting Has Changed In Oregon

Lan Su garden celebrates Lunar New Year in Portland

Students at Cottage Grove-based national tree climbing school push themselves to the limit to become professional pine cone collectors

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Newer Portland police officers are more likely to use force, according to an analysis of newer recruits.

Citations for public drug use have little effect

The city, county and state governments declared an emergency surrounding fentanyl, the deadly synthetic opioid, though the announcement won’t include additional funding.

OPB’s “All Science, No Fiction” producer Jes Burns joins Lillian Karabaic for a monthly round-up of research coming out of Pacific Northwest.

A few iconic video stores are still holding strong in the Northwest, keeping the movie rental dream alive for renters young and old. For OPB's At Work With Series, we hear from video store clerk Sara Reinhart from Portland's Movie Madness about what it's like to work in a movie lover's paradise.

Timberline Lodge isn't the only historic log building on Mt Hood

Drug overdoses are a daily problem for Portland's first responders

Three young people with lived experience of homelessness share their ideas on how to improve support for Oregon’s homeless youth.

New challenges are overwhelming an already inadequate network of services for young people struggling with substance abuse.

Environmental group accuses them of “greenwashing” their own role in nitrate pollution

Unhoused young adults in Oregon count on each other for support amid limited services

Three years after Oregon eliminated criminal consequences, influential lawmakers say it’s time for a course correction. Republicans say the changes wouldn’t be enough.

Cottage Grove residents haven't had power, internet or phone service for the past seven days. They have a long road to recovery after facing the worst of the latest winter storms.

Sherwood Ice Arena is getting good at producing elite skaters.

Oregon's ice storms could be the winter wave of the future

It’s been a tough week for most Oregonians: battling snow, downed trees and sheets of ice. At least a dozen people have died, and falling limbs and ice have caused millions in damages.

“Downwind” looks at how miscalculated wind forecasts, government proclamations that radiation exposure wasn’t a serious health threat, and revelations from now-declassified documents referring to those who lived near the test site as a “low use segment of the population” potentially contributed to illnesses suffered by Americans who were never warned about the dangers of living near the test sites...

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