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

Multnomah County is looking to set lobbyist reporting rules — something it and neighboring counties don’t have.

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

Josephine County Commissioners voted unanimously to appeal the state’s Wildfire Hazard Map on behalf of the county. This ...

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 ...

The latest version of the Oregon Wildfire Hazard Map is raising concerns from homeowners all across the state, especially in rural areas. The problem is that many claim the map is inconsistent.

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Three people who were mistakenly registered to vote at Oregon’s Motor Vehicle Services Division could face a criminal investigation for voting despite not being U.S. citizens.

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 ...

Cliff Bentz, Oregon's sole Republican member of Congress, took a verbal lashing in his conservative district as Trump's ...

For the second time in two years, Oregon lawmakers want to kill a map meant to identify areas at high risk of catastrophic wildfires but that has become a lightning rod for anger from rural ...