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The Oregon Historical Society recently released a new batch of digitized historical images of some of the state’s earliest Black residents. The photographs provide a rare look into the lives of Black pioneers — and may help solve an intriguing mystery.

Through October, the Klamath County Museum offers flashlight tours of the four-story, historic Baldwin Hotel Museum.

Archaeologists have new evidence suggesting that humans occupied Oregon more than 18,000 years ago. This makes it one of the oldest known sites of human occupation in North America.

Mark Hatfield, one of the most iconic figures in Oregon political history, would have turned 100 years old Tuesday.

On Friday, several dozen people gathered in Lithia Park in Ashland to hold a vigil in remembrance of the atomic bomb being dropped in Hiroshima, Japan 76 years ago.

The yes vote comes a day after the Senate unanimously moved to recognize June 19 as a commemoration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States.

When Russia was still the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, summits with its leaders were largely about fears of a thermonuclear duel and mass annihilation. Here's a look back at the highlights.

House Bill 2168 will officially recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday in Oregon beginning June 19, 2022.

Les AuCoin spent 18 years representing Northwest Oregon in the U.S. House, at a time when issues like the spotted owl and forest management were looming…

Norma Paulus left the planet in 2019. She was Oregon's first woman secretary of state, first woman major party candidate for governor, and later…

Welcome to 2020! New Year's Day gives us a chance to look both forward and backward at once. We revisit some Exchange segments from the past. At 8: Vivek…

Europeans had traded with parts of Africa for centuries, rarely getting beyond the coastal regions. That changed in the 1870s, when the search for riches…