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When an outsider suggested the tiny northern hamlet of Swastika should change its name, town supervisors quickly rejected a change.

Starting Friday, masks will be required in most public outdoor settings where physical distancing is not possible, regardless of vaccination status.

The winter of 1889-90 was hard on man and beast in Trinity County, Calif. The snow was 17 feet deep at Denny. Deer perished by the hundreds and a local…

California’s independent redistricting commission is struggling to finish new congressional maps. While its deliberations are contentious, Texas is being sued over its maps, pushed through by the Republican legislature and governor.

A professor at OHSU speaks to the challenges and benefits of vaccinating people with obesity — a group considered at high risk from COVID-19, but with a difficult history with some other vaccines.

On Charli XCX's Crash, the artist leans fully into a mainstream pop persona for the first time in almost a decade.

Governor Gavin Newsom is set to approve an extra $500 million for wildfire prevention — a last-minute change that would more than double what’s in the current budget deal.

Can you name even one American religious leader who is a woman? The people who garner attention from the general public tend to be men. But there are…

Julie Bargmann, the first recipient of the Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, redesigns waste dumps, landfills, Superfund sites — places she calls "the gnarliest."

In 1883, Ottilie Parker and her sister received an invitation to attend a spring wedding at Gold Beach, Ore., 70 miles from their home on the Coquille…