To appeal to families ready to graduate from the Nintendo Wii, Seattle-based Microsoft Corp. wants to build on the success of the Wii's motion-capture wand - by getting rid of the wand entirely.

SEATTLE (AP) -- Relatives and friends of a woman and four children killed in a fast-moving apartment fire grieved as officials tried to determine why a problem with a fire engine briefly delayed the response to one of the city's deadliest blazes.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The rebuilding of Americans' wealth is proceeding in steps rather than strides.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Investigators who have searched for six days for a missing 7-year-old Oregon boy without success are turning to experts from across the state to assist in the expanding effort.

Step It Up, Inc. is recruiting for the summer Pre-internship Program, which is a career development program that documents each youth's work for high school graduation credit of career-related learning experiences ...

Washington State University Vancouver provides quality education to the residents of Southwest Washington and the Portland metropolitan area. With a student population of 3,000, WSU Vancouver offers a small-college atmosphere with public university access.

The Portland Saturday Market was poised last week to kick out one of its only vendors of color, but a last minute appeal by an unlikely duo changed their course

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- After months of Democrats and Republicans dominating the news about this year's campaign for governor of Oregon, third-party challengers and independent candidates now get their shot.

A band of doctors and medical marijuana advocates are roaming Montana to sign up thousands of patients in a so-called Cannabis Caravan. The state medical board is trying to curtail the mass screenings and recently fined a physician who participated in a similar clinic in the first disciplinary action taken against a doctor in a Montana medical marijuana case 

Since the Oregon Supreme Court ruled in April that employers could fire valid medical marijuana users, there remains one FDA-approved prescription drug that contains some elements of cannabis -- Marinol.