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A short-lived program in the early 2000s allowed married couples to consolidate their student loans for a lower interest rate. Now, with no legal way to separate the loans, some want changes.

Life was an adventure for Charlotte Rose Henry as a child in Cottonwood, Calif. Her parents, Leland and Gladys Cunningham Rose, both born in 1898, were…

On Sept. 9, 1942, Japanese pilot Nobuo Fujita dropped incendiary bombs near the town of Brookings, Ore.Fujita’s World War II mission was to start massive…

For several years now, the Ashland Culture of Peace Commission has worked to instill a sense of people doing right by each other in the community. And it…

When we refer back to "the wisdom of the ancients," a logical follow-up is "which ancients?" There were many influential cultures in the world millennia…

Inexpensive and abundant hydropower-generated electricity made the Pacific Northwest a major hub for aluminum production after World War II. Now, a complex deal is taking shape to revive the Pacific Northwest's last remaining aluminum smelter.

Oregon’s plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions through a new Climate Protection Program are facing criticism for leaving out natural gas power plants.

The symptoms of Parkinson's disease can vanish briefly in the face of stress or a strong emotion. Now scientists are searching for a treatment based on this phenomenon, a form of the placebo effect.

The Pulitzer Prize winner, whose music enveloped everything from the horrors of the Vietnam War to the calls of humpback whales, died Sunday.

The king of ragtime published his hit tune 120 years ago. Pianist Lara Downes believes the piece helped shape the future of American music.