Drug reform advocates hailed Oregon as a progressive leader when it became the first in the nation to legalize the therapeutic use of psilocybin, the compound found in psychedelic mushrooms.

One of the strongest storms on the West Coast in decades knocked out power for thousands of people and unleashed strong winds that toppled trees and left two dead in Washington before making its way through Oregon to Northern California.

A major storm was sweeping across the U.S. Northwest, battering the region with strong winds and rain.

What is expected to be one of the strongest storms in the northwest U.S. in decades has arrived.

Oregon remains the unanimous No. 1 team in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll after its close call at Wisconsin.

Atticus Sappington broke a tie with a 24-yard field goal with 2:36 remaining and No. 1 Oregon rallied in the fourth quarter to beat Wisconsin 16-13 on Saturday night.

Democrat Janelle Bynum has flipped Oregon’s 5th Congressional District.

Oregon stayed on top in the second batch of College Football Playoff rankings, while the new poll shoved Georgia completely out of the bracket after its lopsided loss to Mississippi.

South Carolina is a unanimous No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll after a pair of victories to kick off its national championship repeat bid.

Oregon’s dominance in its first year in the Big Ten and Indiana’s monumental turnaround have helped the conference stack four of its teams in the top five of The Associated Press college football poll for the first time.

Oregon is the No. 1 team in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll for the fourth straight week.

Undefeated Oregon got top billing in the first set of rankings on the road to college football's new, 12-team playoff.

Oregon is a unanimous choice for No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll.

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Dillon Gabriel threw a touchdown pass and ran for a score in another efficient performance from the Heisman Trophy front-runner to lead No. 1 Oregon to a 38-17 win over Michigan.

A winged creature from Oregon has been crowned this year's winner in the annual “Bat Beauty Contest.”.

Voters in two counties in Washington state and Oregon have not received mail-in ballots with less than a week to go before the election, election officials say.

A pig at an Oregon farm was found to have bird flu.

Oregon, Georgia and Miami remained the top three seeds in The Associated Press College Football Playoff bracket projection with BYU overtaking Iowa State for No. 4.

A special kind of beauty contest featuring bats kicked off in the lead-up to Halloween.

This college football season is delivering when it comes to unpredictability and entertainment value.

Jordan James ran for two scores and Dillon Gabriel threw for two more, leading No. 2 Oregon to a 35-0 rout at Purdue.

The Oregon football team's decision to exploit a loophole in the rules late in a win over Ohio State is hardly new.

The NCAA football rules committee has issued guidance to close a loophole that allowed second-ranked Oregon to exploit an illegal substitution penalty late in its victory over Ohio State to take time off the clock.

No. 2 Oregon had 12 men on the field late in its 32-31 win over No. 4 Ohio State, with the resulting penalty causing precious seconds to wind off the clock.

Oregon and Penn State each moved up a spot in The Associated Press college football poll following thrilling wins in high-profile games.

Oregon receiver Traeshon Holden was ejected from the third-ranked Ducks' game against Ohio State for unsportsmanlike conduct after he spit on a Buckeyes player.

Oregon's Multnomah County, home to Portland, has added the state's largest natural gas utility to its $51.5 billion climate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies.

Citing weather issues, Major League Baseball moved the start time of Saturday’s decisive Game 5 of the AL Division Series between Detroit and Cleveland from 8:08 p.m. to a 1:08 p.m. The change was announced Friday as the Tigers were going through a workout at Progressive Field.

National Republicans and Democrats are keenly eyeing the Pacific Northwest, where two of the most competitive U.S. House races in the country are playing out.

Oregon transportation authorities waited weeks to tell elections officials about an error that registered over 1,200 people to vote despite them not providing proof of U.S. citizenship.

Off the coast of Oregon, the wind blows hard and waves are strong, attracting researchers and businesses interested in developing two kinds of clean electricity: wave energy and floating offshore wind.

Oregon officials have acknowledged the state mistakenly registered more than 300 non-citizens as voters since 2021.

The Pac-12 is adding Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State and San Diego State, starting in 2026, to join Oregon State and Washington State in a rebuilt Conference of Champions.

Atticus Sappington kicked a 25-yard field goal as time expired to give No. 7 Oregon a 37-34 victory over resilient Boise State on Saturday night.

Oregon’s experiment with drug decriminalization is coming to an end Sunday.

The largest proposed grocery merger in U.S. history is heading to court.

A government survey shows small signs of improvement in the mental health of U.S. teenagers.

Thousands of firefighters are battling a wildfire in northern California that exploded in size — one of several blazes tearing through the western United States and Canada amid dry, hot and windy conditions.

Wildfires are continuing to scorch the West, and authorities say one major blaze started with a burning car being pushed into a gully.

Khyree Jackson was supposed to report to training camp this week with the rest of the Minnesota Vikings draft class.

A dangerously hot summer has shaped up in the U.S. West.

The U.S. and Canada say they have agreed to update a treaty that governs the use of one of North America’s largest rivers, the Columbia, with provisions that officials said would provide for effective flood control, irrigation, and hydropower generation and sharing between the countries.

Hundreds of Europeans touring the American West and adventurers from around the U.S. are still being drawn to Death Valley National Park.

A rapidly growing wildfire near the central Oregon community of La Pine is being spurred by gusty winds and prompting evacuations.

Neil Goldschmidt, a former Oregon governor whose confession that he had sex with a 14-year-old in the 1970s blackened what had been a nearly sterling reputation, has died.

A dog has helped his owner get rescued after a car crash in a steep ravine in mountainous northeastern Oregon.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says consumers should avoid eating shellfish from Oregon and Washington state as they may be contaminated with toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning.

A massive rare fish thought to only live in temperate waters in the southern hemisphere has washed up on Oregon's northern coast.

The NCAA baseball tournament moves to the best-of-three super regionals this weekend.

Pacific Power, part of PacifiCorp, says it has agreed to a nearly $180 million settlement with over 400 Oregon plaintiffs.

The presidential primaries that Joe Biden and Donald Trump have already clinched are moving closer to their end.

A California congressman says tribes should be more involved in the decision-making process for the development of the first offshore wind farms along the West Coast.

Oregon has multiple hotly contested primaries upcoming, as well as some that will set the stage for high-profile races in November.

An immigrant from Laos who has been battling cancer won an enormous $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot in Oregon earlier this month.

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As just a 26-year-old, Noah Lyles has already accomplished incredible feats in track and field.

The hotel featured in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film “The Shining” says it will reopen to guests Sunday after a fire that prompted evacuations but caused only minimal damage.

The most significant case in decades on homelessness has reached the Supreme Court as record numbers of people in America are without a permanent place to live.

Lawmakers in at least 12 states are debating bills that would legalize physician-assisted death.

Oregon lottery officials say the winner of the eighth-biggest lottery prize in U.S. history won’t be announced for at least a couple more weeks while the win is verified and arrangements for the massive payment are made.

Someone in Oregon has claimed the $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot won last weekend, which is the eighth-largest lottery prize in U.S. history.

A Powerball player in Oregon has won a jackpot worth more than $1.3 billion, ending a winless streak that had stretched more than three months.

Steven Ashworth and Ryan Kalkbrenner made 3-pointers in the second overtime and Creighton edged past its former coach — Oregon’s Dana Altman — to move into the Sweet 16 with an 86-73 win in the Midwest Region.

The FBI is telling people who were on board the Boeing 737 Max that lost a panel in midflight that they might be victims of a crime.

N’Faly Dante, playing with a bruised tailbone, made all 12 of his shots and scored 25 points, and Oregon secured an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament by defeating Colorado 75-68 on Saturday night to end the Pac-12 Conference era.

Officials say a post-flight inspection revealed a missing panel on a 25-year-old Boeing 737-800 after it arrived at its destination in southern Oregon.

No. 2Stanford and No. 3 Iowa have jumped up behind top-ranked South Carolina in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll.

A bipartisan group of Oregon lawmakers are working to boost funding for jails to provide medication used to treat opioid addiction.

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An Oregon jury has awarded $85 million to nine victims of wildfires that ravaged the state in 2020.

Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer tied Mike Krzyzewski as winningest coach in college basketball history with her 1,202nd victory, guiding the No. 8 Cardinal past Oregon 88-63 while losing leading scorer Cameron Brink for the final three quarters with a leg injury.

Five of the six major conferences have a leader or co-leader that failed to make the NCAA Tournament last season.

Miami tight end Cam McCormick has announced he will return to college for what is believed to be an unprecedented ninth season of eligibility.

Authorities says a power line fell on a car in Portland, Oregon, killing three people and injuring a baby during an ice storm that turned roads and mountain highways treacherous in the Pacific Northwest.

The Pacific Northwest is bracing for more hazardous winter weather after a weekend storm that resulted in at least seven deaths.

Parts of Oregon are bracing for freezing rain after a weekend of extreme winds knocked down trees and cut power to thousands.

Icy winter weather is blanketing the U.S. as a wave of Arctic storms threatens to break low-temperature records in the heartland and spread cold and snow from coast to coast.

The Supreme Court has agreed to review lower-court rulings that make it harder for cities in the western United States to prevent people from sleeping on the streets when there aren’t enough beds in homeless shelters.

Oregon's Supreme Court is keeping former President Donald Trump on the primary ballot in that state.

Bo Nix threw for 363 yards and five touchdowns to cap a recording-breaking career, and No. 8 Oregon closed out a season that started with national title expectations by rolling over No. 18 Liberty 45-6 in the Fiesta Bowl.

Oregon's Bo Nix has finished his career as one of the most productive quarterbacks in NCAA history.

A state appeals court in Oregon has decided that the rules for a program designed to limit and drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel companies are invalid.

A federal judge has denied a request to halt the reintroduction of gray wolves in Colorado just days away from the predators’ release.

A federal judge has rejected a request from Oregon Republican state senators who boycotted the Legislature to be allowed on the ballot after their terms end.

Former Oklahoma and UCF quarterback Dillon Gabriel has announced he is transferring to Oregon for a sixth season of college football.

An ex-Alaska Airlines pilot accused of trying to cut the engines of a passenger flight while off-duty and riding in an extra seat in the cockpit has been released from jail pending trial, after an Oregon judge approved it with conditions that include keeping away from aircraft.

Oregon quarterback Bo Nix is The Associated Press Pac-12 offensive player of the year and UCLA's Laiatu Latu is the defensive player of the year.

Authorities in Oregon are investigating the deaths of two people whose bodies were found in creeks this week as an atmospheric river brings heavy rain, flooding and unseasonably warm temperatures to the Pacific Northwest.

LSU’s Jayden Daniels, Oregon’s Bo Nix and Washington’s Michael Penix Jr., transfer quarterbacks who have all played at least five college seasons, and Ohio State receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. are the finalists for the Heisman Trophy.

George Kliavkoff followed the custom for a conference commissioner and handed the Pac-12 Championship trophy to Washington coach Kalen DeBoer.

Michael Penix Jr. passed for 319 yards and a touchdown, Dillon Johnson ran for 152 yards and two TDs and No. 3 Washington wrapped up a spot in the College Football Playoff, beating No. 5 Oregon 34-31 on Friday night in the Pac-12 Championship.

Rome Odunze can see not all is right with the offense for No. 3 Washington.

The time for upsets have come and gone with little chaos in college football and not much movement in the AP Top 25 for much of the season.

No. 3 Washington, No. 4 Florida State and No. 5 Oregon all moved up a spot in The Associated Press college football poll to give the Pac-12 two top-five teams for the first time since the final ranking of the 2016 season.

Bo Nix threw for two touchdowns and ran for another, securing No. 6 Oregon a spot in the Pac-12 championship game with a 31-7 victory over No. 15 Oregon State in the final scheduled matchup between the in-state rivals.

Michael Penix Jr. threw for two touchdowns and ran for another, and No. 5 Washington remained undefeated and clinched a spot in the Pac-12 championship game with a 22-20 victory over No. 10 Oregon State on Saturday.

Authorities are trying to determine who sent suspicious letters, including some containing fentanyl or other substances, to local election offices in at least five states.

No. 5 Washington's treacherous November stretch returns home and features a matchup with always dangerous Utah.

Bo Nix threw for 248 yards and two touchdowns to lead No. 8 Oregon to a 35-6 victory over No. 13 Utah, which had an 18-game home winning streak snapped by the loss Saturday.