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Early fur trapping companies established outposts, known as forts, before the Oregon Trail opened. One example was the rendezvous point along the Umpqua…

Sacha Pfeiffer is a correspondent for NPR's Investigations team and an occasional guest host for some of NPR's national shows.

The U. S. Congress encouraged settlement of the West by passing the Homestead Act in 1862. People could file on unclaimed land, live on it, and then buy…

Both the state's public universities and community colleges initially were slated to receive at least $60 million less than their requested goals.

James Ivory saw his first movie when he was five at a theater in Klamath Falls, Ore. Eighty-four years later, he has become the oldest person ever to…

Crater Lake National Patrol Ranger Alice Siebecker was pursuing a speeding car on the park’s south entrance road in 1982 when the car exploded, ran off…

A year into the pandemic, the agency's staffers reflect on what it's been like to fight the biggest public health battle in their history and how they're working to rebuild public trust in science.

Robert Davis' experience with the U.S. Parole Commission is an example of how systemic barriers can hold down people striving to do the right thing.

For years Texas tried to lure businesses to locate there from other states. Now, Chicago is using a new Texas abortion ban and other social issues to recruit businesses from the Lone Star state.

Although Jim Holland founded Holland, Ore., around 1877, the person who really built the town was Jack Smock, who arrived 18 years later.Smock had lost a…