Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create whole ...

The gesture comes as county commissioners face pressure from property owners — mostly in rural areas — to advocate against ...

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates Multnomah County’s population increased by 0.2%. Oregon’s most populous county added just ...

A Democrat lawmaker in Oregon has been hit with shocking theft charges months after her election. Clackamas County Commissioner Melissa Fireside, 43, was set to be arraigned Wednesday on ...

That’s what Oregon House Bill 2096 and two companion bills are about. The bills follow a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case of Tyler v. Hennepin County. In 2015, Hennepin County ...

A new Oregon bill could let 16- and 17-year-olds vote in school ... He said teens may not be as informed about political issues and candidates. "Voting is a serious responsibility, and younger teens ...

(KTVZ) -- Three people who were mistakenly registered to vote at Oregon ... before a major election. It continued during a leadership transition. And we’re also giving the counties and the ...

Oregon's statewide wildfire risk assessment map has been a source of contention ... This would be done through county classification committees made up of members from the state fire marshal ...

Republicans in the Oregon House proposed a new bill this week that they say is intended to restore trust in the state’s ...