When Oregon changed gun laws in 2018 to allow weapons to be taken away from domestic abusers who weren’t married to their partners, the bill didn’t include specifics steps for how law enforcement and district attorneys could comply.

A major pharmaceutical distribution company and two of its former executives are facing criminal charges for their roles in advancing the nation's opioid crisis and profiting from it.

The U.S. Supreme Court is deciding whether or not a question about U.S. citizenship will be on the 2020 census. That question could affect federal funding for Oregon.

Many people believe the citizenship question will result in an undercount for non-citizens, and their households, if they refuse to respond.

UPDATE (April 23, 7:18 p.m. PT) — A federal judge in Portland said Tuesday he would grant a preliminary injunction preventing new Trump administration rules that could’ve taken funding away from certain abortion providers from going into effect.

Oregon, 19 other states and the District of Columbia, along with the American Medical Association and Planned Parenthood sued the administration last month over rules the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services planned to put into effect May 3.

Flooding has created a disaster in parts of Eastern Oregon, according to local and tribal government officials. State lawmakers representing the areas have implored Gov. Kate Brown since April 15 to declare a state of emergency, but so far they've been denied.

Police arrested 11 people Monday, apparently ending a protest by the group Extinction Rebellion Portland, which built a small garden that blocked Zenith Energy's Portland railroad terminal.

The activists had been protesting the expansion of the oil terminal at a time when they say we should be dismantling fossil fuel infrastructure, not creating more.