The top-seeded Barlow Bruins face the eighth-seeded Sprague Olympians at the Oregon (OSAA) high school boys basketball 6A ...

A new report indicates that House Republican budget plans that may cut Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) could ...

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New Jersey’s Holland Ridge Farms U-Pick Tulip Fest clinched the No. 1 spot, with Texas Tulips, Michigan’s Tulip Time Festival and the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival in Mount Vernon, Washington, rounding ...

The population of Multnomah County, the dense urban core of the Portland metro, rose a hair last year, even as it remained ...

There were 816,321 Multnomah County residents in April 2020, compared to the 795,897 people recorded in July 2024.

The state’s 2024-2025 influenza season is the worst since Oregon Health Authority began tracking the virus 15 years ago, with ...

A first of its kind surgery to help people with a specific type of heart failure is going through clinical trials at Providence St. Vincent’s.

Chicken meat producers remain the most resistant to vaccines because of concerns they could harm meat exports, which totaled nearly $4.7 billion last year.

Partly cloudy. The chance of morning fog in the southwest. The chance of smoke haze in the west this morning. Light winds becoming southerly 15 to 20 km/h in the late afternoon then becoming light in ...