In what will be a first for the state, the Portland City Council last week approved a recommendation to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission to restrict the sale of certain alcoholic beverages at stores.

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Low tax collections are driving a new state budget deficit of about $520 million through mid-2011, leading to spending cuts of about 6.3 percent from Gov. Chris Gregoire.

The last time a quake struck Oregon was over 310 years ago.
Experts predict that another could happen any year now.
So when the next big earthquake rolls through Portland, how prepared for our town's destruction will you be?

Despite media reports that Portland Police Officer Ron Frashour has been fired from the bureau, city and union officials declined to confirm that.

A woman riding a bike was injured Wednesday morning at the corner of NE Couch Street and Grand Avenue. The right-hook crash became the first crash after the Portland Department of Transportation labeled the intersection their number one priority for a green "bike box," as reported on bikeportland.org.

A beloved Portlander and pioneering Oregon pharmacist, Lawrence Edward ("Ed") Caldwell, Jr., 77, passed away peacefully on Sept. 7, 2010.
Ed's accomplishments in pharmacy were many. In 1960, Ed became the first African-American graduate of Oregon State University's College of Pharmacy, where he earned a Bachelor of Science and the coveted Kilmer Prize for research in pharmacognosy

EUGENE, Oregon (AP) – In a case that has dragged on for 10 years, an Oregon resident originally accused of terrorist ties to Al-Qaida was convicted last night of tax evasion.

The fatal Vancouver police shooting of a gun-toting Oregon National Guardsman Tuesday has drawn attention back to an investigation of Joint Base Lewis-McChord's alleged failure to provide full and timely services to guard members.

Playwright Reginald Andre Jackson admits he got lucky. Lucky he was commissioned to create a play from a novel with good source material. Lucky the author actually liked the performance. And lucky it was actually published.  But luck had little to do with the hard work Jackson put into ...

It's hard enough to organize a 40th class reunion. But when your school has been closed since 1981, the task is even harder.