Oregon

Nike gave its head office employees the week off, as the latest company to offer workers vacation in order to support their mental health. 

Oregon’s governor says she will deploy up to 1,500 National Guard troops to hospitals around the state to support healthcare workers as COVID-19 surges amid the rapid spread of the Delta variant.

Dozens of domestic wells have gone dry in an area near the Oregon-California border where the American West’s worsening drought has taken a particularly dramatic toll

A former Oregon lawmaker who was expelled for letting violent, far-right protesters into the state Capitol has pleaded guilty to one count of official misconduct.

The Western U.S. is facing drought conditions that are straining water resources, hurting agriculture and providing a fertile ground for wildfires.

Lower winds and better weather helped crews using bulldozers and helicopters battling the nation’s largest wildfire in southern Oregon while a Northern California wildfire crossed into Nevada, prompting evacuations as blazes burn across the West.

Firefighters continue to battle the Bootleg Fire just north of the California-Oregon border.

The monstrous wildfire burning in Oregon has grown to one-third the size of Rhode Island and spreads miles each day, but evacuations and property losses have been minimal compared to much smaller blazes in densely populated areas of California

The largest wildfire in the U.S. has torched more dry forest landscape in Oregon

Authorities expanded evacuations late Thursday along the eastern edge of the Bootleg Fire, currently the largest in the U.S., and worry it could merge with another blaze.

Prices are rising for goods and services as the U.S. confronts its most serious inflation in decades. These most expensive states to live in had a head start.

Officials are concerned about the size and severity of the fires this early in the season.

Fierce wildfires are threatening Native American lands in the Pacific Northwest

Wildfires that have torched homes and forced thousands to evacuate are burning across 10 parched Western states, and the largest, in Oregon, is threatening California’s power supply

Life can be good in the Beaver State, where laws are inclusive. But you’ll work hard to afford the cost of living.

Firefighters are working in extreme temperatures across the U.S. West and struggling to contain wildfires, the largest burning in California and Oregon, as another heat wave baked the region, straining power grids

Selected projects will undertake their research at a facility off the coast of Oregon.

The grim toll of the historic heat wave in the Pacific Northwest has become more apparent as authorities in Canada, Washington state and Oregon say they’re investigating hundreds of deaths likely caused by extreme temperatures

A Maine couple found out the dumpling machine they’d ordered to be delievered to them in Portland was sent to Portland, but the wrong one. Portland, Oregon.

Trying to fill this dumpling order left one business in a pinch: A common but disruptive shipping error sent a custom dumpling-making machine manufactured in China to the wrong Portland in May. The owners of Little Brother Chinese Food, which sells frozen dumplings in Portland, Maine, ordered a custom dumpling machine in March to help them fulfill demand, but an…