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California lawmakers faced a difficult budget year, but they still managed to put hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks in the state budget to benefit their districts — and help them get re-elected.

The Trump administration is making unprecedented demands of colleges in the Northwest and across the country.

Three camps are owned and operated not by the city, but by Elk Island Trading Group, a landowner that flips blighted real estate.

As alcohol-related roadway deaths spike across the state, a CalMatters investigation finds California has some of the weakest DUI laws in the country.

Decades after newspaper publisher Amos Voorhies died, a chance find at a garage sale saved thousands of rare photographs of early life in Josephine County.

The redistricting plan puts California voters at the center of a national tug-of-war over political boundaries. In Northern California, it would unite inland and coastal communities, but some worry this would silence rural voices.

Medford voters are being asked to approve a hotel tax increase this November. It started as an effort to bring a minor league baseball team to Medford. But the idea has now turned into a major conference center with a possible baseball stadium on the side.

Insurance experts say it’s a national warning sign, as the effects of climate change cause private insurance companies to pull back on coverage in disaster-prone areas, leaving states and their residents to assume more of the risk.

Congress remains gridlocked as federal lawmakers jockey over changes to health insurance policy that could affect nearly 140,000 Oregonians.

Just a year after four dams were removed, fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin in Southern Oregon.

A menagerie of costumed demonstrators and dance parties have drawn national attention to Portland amid protests over federal troops.

A massive heat wave is hitting the Pacific Ocean from Kamchatka to California.