Oregon News

The Oregon House Judiciary Committee decided at the last minute to withdraw House Bill 2469 -  to allow judges to downgrade some misdemeanor offenses to violations – because it needed a majority vote of the committee to succeed. …

After another patient died at the Oregon State Hospital, bringing the number to 21 since 2020, Governor Tina Kotek announced a leadership overhaul at the hospital, including a new acting superintendent. Kotek directed Kristine Kautz, the…

Thousands of potential jobs and billions of potential private investments have been lost to Oregon in the past five years and the state is poised to lose even more in the next five years, according to a survey by the University of Oregon.…

Oregon law enforcement officers may be able to collect DNA when arresting serious felony suspects if House Bill 3093 gets the final nod from lawmakers. Oregon will join 31 states that already employ DNA testing on felony suspects. …

ROSEBURG, Ore. — The search for a Roseburg man, Terry Eugene Kruh, 63, ended on Thursday, April 10 when a friend, who was one of the searchers, found the body of Kruh and his motorcycle crashed in the 6600 block of Roberts Creek Road in…

A male prisoner who walked away from a work site in Salem yesterday (Friday) was quickly apprehended by Oregon State Police near Mission Street, a main traffic thoroughfare linking the central city to the coast. He Was Serving a…

Over 1,700 non-citizens may have been erroneously registered in Oregon to vote in the presidential election last year, but the DMV estimated on Friday that at least 13 of these individuals could and did vote in at least one election.…

Additional funding worth hundreds of millions of dollars to help low-income and homeless K-12 students recover from the impact of the pandemic has been stopped by the Department of Education (DOE), leading Oregon to join a lawsuit of 15…

PORTLAND, Ore. — A 39-year-old man who broke into a Portland apartment and assaulted a woman who was sleeping is facing multiple sexual assault charges. Michael Lynn Moore, Jr. was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on…

EUGENE, Ore. — A Eugene man who threatened to become the next Kip Kinkel- the school shooter who killed two classmates and injured 25 in a Springfield, Oregon high school in 1998, Jeffrey Alan Voss, 31, was sentenced to a five-year term of…