Lucille McNamara

Three Oregon counties – Coos, Yamhill, and Benton - have been awarded $11.5 million by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to upgrade and expand regional transit networks. Coos County will receive the lion’s share of the…

A drug trafficker from Florida, who used couriers from Oregon to move thousands of pounds of marijuana from the West Coast to Tallahassee, has been sentenced to two years in federal prison. Florida Man Sentenced for Distributing…

A 39-year-old man was arrested at a hotel in Tigard yesterday afternoon, following a shooting earlier in the day in a Portland parking garage where one man was killed and another injured. Portland Police Bureau detectives received…

Pacific Power customers must remain vigilant against scammers demanding immediate payment to avoid being disconnected the same day. The utility reminds customers that this scam becomes more active over the festive season, and that they…

Oregon Secretary of State, Tobias Read, is concerned that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) are using confidential voters’ roll information ‘to keep tearing families and communities apart’. Read Has…

The percentage of Oregon 9th-graders on track to graduate is the highest ever recorded in the state, according to data released by the Department of Education (ODE). Yesterday, the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) released data for…

Undercover agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), arrested three men associated with the Sureño street gang after purchasing 15 firearms, 58 machine gun conversion devices, and cocaine in a five-month…

The fourth quarter economic outlook for Oregon shows continued resilience. However, the risk of recession is diminishing, with a modest improvement in 2026 forecast by the Office of Economic Analysis (OEA). The Forecast Helps the…

The monthly non-farm job estimates and unemployment rate are still not available beyond August 2025, according to a news release from the Oregon Employment Department (OED). The OED reports that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)…

PORTLAND, Ore. — Thirty-four-year-old Trenten Edward Barker is facing a maximum prison sentence of 20 years after pleading guilty to setting fire to a pile of debris at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Portland on…