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The rights given to newly-freed slaves after the Civil War did not sit well with some whites in the South. Within a few years of the war, the original Ku…

The four-term lawmaker from Corvallis won approval from fellow Democrats on Sunday, all but ensuring his election when the House votes Feb. 1.

In 1897, an important mining strike was made in Northern California only four weeks after the claim was purchased for a pittance.William Hanson, an Etna…

A failed Oregon homesteader in the early 1900s, Samuel H. Boardman, would become known as the father of the state’s park system.Boardman came West as a…

The lunar event was the longest partial lunar eclipse in 580 years. Almost the entire moon — 99.1% — was cast under the earth's shadow.

A look at how Hollywood has depicted authoritarians, from Duck Soup to The Last King of Scotland.

In the summer of 1884, a lady walked her poodle on a hill above the Siskiyou Toll Road House south of Ashland, Ore. Her companions heard a shriek and ran…

A new federal report says that a massive building at the Hanford Nuclear Site is worse off than managers thought. The so-called PUREX -- Plutonium...

While the U.S. considers finally banning the carcinogen, a group of men has come forward, saying they were exposed repeatedly while working at a chemical plant in New York.

A new book argues that greater public support for parents is critical for the brain development of America's kids.