A spike in fatal domestic abuse cases in Oregon and Washington has triggered a regional drive to toughen legal penalties, reporting requirements and outreach to vulnerable victims suffering in the home...

After being convicted of murdering Christopher Monnet by a jury on New Year's Eve, exactly two years after the crime was committed, Jerrin Hickman received a sentence of 25 years to life at a hearing on Monday.

ORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon state troopers say they were encouraged by a drop in the number of arrests on impaired driving charges this New Year's Eve.
The police say the number of people accused in Oregon of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs was down by a third...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- With the beginning of 2010, a three-year moratorium on oil and gas drilling in Oregon's territorial sea is expiring.
Environmentalists say they will push the Legislature to adopt a permanent ban...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- The murders of five police officers and this week's shooting of two more have lawmakers thinking about more than a looming budget deficit as they prepare to return to the state capital in January.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- It was a bleak news year in Oregon. The jobless rate was persistently one of the worst in the nation. Bankruptcies and foreclosures rose as a result, and few thought the economy would improve soon or quickly.

SEATTLE (AP) -- A federal appeals court ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling its Word program in January and pay a Canadian software company $290 million for violating a patent, upholding the judgment of a lower court.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Former Gov. John Kitzhaber has an early fundraising lead over rival Democrat Bill Bradbury in the 2010 Oregon governor's race, according to state campaign finance reports.

GLACIER, Wash. (AP) -- When Lynden-area resident Joe King first saw a 25-acre property near this small mountain town, he figured it was a nice piece of property where he'd like to live some day.

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- One April morning eight years ago, police in Thurston County showed up at the home of young Starcia Ague and her father.
The mobile home and shed were filled with evidence of a meth factory, court records say -- propane tanks, harsh chemicals, needles, firearms, a video surveillance camera.