In states without policies to drive renewable energy, power prices could surge as federal tax incentives for clean energy ...

President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" cuts social safety net programs like SNAP to rein in government spending.

A Portland-area mother and her four U.S.-born children have been detained by federal immigration officials for two weeks, an ...

Small hospitals in Washington state are facing a difficult economic future. Their finances will likely become worse because ...

Large companies will start paying into a program to expand and unify Oregon's recycling system, helping more cities offer ...

Those are the loans that allow shoppers, usually online, to break up a purchase into installments — a way to pay that’s ...

Nearly 500 state transportation employees received layoff notices Monday, as the Oregon Department of Transportation warned that lawmakers’ recent failure to boost its budget would result in ...

The Oregon Department of Transportation says key funding for a massive Portland highway project is in serious jeopardy after Congressional Republicans passed a sweeping domestic policy bill last ...

When it started in 1969, the Oregon Country Fair’s ideas about conservation were unconventional and strange. Now they're part of the mainstream ...

Ian McCluskey is a seventh-generation Oregonian and avid outdoor enthusiast (despite once having been hit by lightning). He is passionate about telling stories from the wild and remote corners of ...

Jenn Chávez is a podcast host and producer with Oregon Public Broadcasting. Jenn has been making audio in Portland for over a decade, as both a community media and public media journalist. For ...