If an emergency strikes your neighborhood, Carmen Merlo wants her staff at Portland Office of Emergency Management to have your contact information. Say, a bridge has collapsed, for example, or dangers such as downed power lines, or a toxic chemical spill are lurking in your neighborhood, they could send you warnings in the form of texts, emails or voicemails.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The recession spread poverty into thousands of mom-and-dad households where good jobs had been common, a study of food stamp use in Oregon concludes.

If you're a felon, Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna wants to make sure you can't vote until you're no longer under the jurisdiction of the state.
This week, the state's top law enforcement officer traveled to San Francisco to argue before an 11-member panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to strike down a January 2010 decision that found the state's prohibition on prisoner suffrage violated the Voting Rights Act

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.