Barely three weeks into fall term at Portland State, faculty members are already receiving notice of possible layoffs. Nearly 100 non-tenure track faculty got notice Tuesday. And the union that ...

Eighty years ago this September, the first industrial nuclear reactor went online near Richland, Washington, on what would become known as the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The plutonium refined at ...

Oregon’s largest gas utility as well as a research institute have been added as two new defendants in Multnomah County’s $52 ...

Records detail "serious incidents of misconduct" long before Kent Vander Kamp rose through the ranks of the Deschutes County ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Suliman Mleihat, 32, and his nine-year-old son Obeida stand in front of Obeida's classroom, where he sheltered from ...

Erik Neumann is OPB’s Southwest Washington Bureau Chief. He has more than a decade of experience as a radio reporter, writer and editor. Before working at OPB, he was the news director at ...

A leading institution among higher education student advocacy groups is closing its doors. The Oregon Student Association, a nonprofit advocacy group primarily run by college students in the state ...

Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB There have been 288 cases of whooping cough in Clark County, Washington, this year. That’s more cases than in the last six years combined. So far, Clark County has ...

As first reported in Slam Wrestling, two Portlanders have been preserving and archiving the history of professional wrestling to make sure their names aren’t forgotten, along with those of other ...

For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American teenagers. This is despite its own research ...

Editor’s note: Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 5. Stay informed with OPB on the presidential race, key congressional battles and other local contests and ballot measures in Oregon and Southwest ...