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.

If tax Measures 66 and 67 pass, tens of thousands of jobs will leave the state. But if tax measures 66 and 67 don't pass, our entire economy will collapse. That's at least according to the opponents and proponents of two tax-increasing ballot measures to be decided by voters this January. About the only thing that will prove anyone right in their predictions is the implementation – or not – of the two measures.

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.