Oregon’s state Senate often offers new members leadership responsibilities, but one new Democratic senator received more than ...

Officials say they are prepared for potentially volatile federal policies and funding under the Trump administration.

Support for expanded access to abortion pills has significantly increased since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade ...

Oregon joined a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over his attempt to withhold citizenship from babies born to ...

Oregon’s 90 lawmakers are beginning their work in earnest on Tuesday, with about five months to pass a spending plan for the ...

Although DHS has made some progress in reducing needless foster care, as of 2022, the most recent year for which comparative ...

The move would be a first and critics worry it could hurt California’s nascent carbon crediting market designed to combat ...

At the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, life-size statues, some in National Guard uniforms, proclaim, “I Am a Man.” ...

Since Donald Trump's election, top Democrats in Oregon have said they’re trying to identify specific threats and not waste ...

Natalie Pate, a journalist and author based in Salem, covers education for OPB. She covered education for the Statesman ...

Richard Wexler is executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform. Before that he spent 19 years ...

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said she will be “vigilant and proactive and innovative to protect the homeland” on immigration ...