The Yakama Nation plans a 500-megawatt advanced rail energy storage project using gravity and rocks to generate power, ...

Lawmakers in the House State Affairs Committee introduced a resolution Thursday to remove language in the Idaho constitution that gives the state power to enforce mandatory education for children.

Portland's sewer system combines sewage and runoff into the same pipes. Sometimes heavy rains cause those pipes to overflow. But a sewer overhaul 14 years ago has drastically reduced this pollution.

Unions and attorneys who represent federal employees are telling workers not to take the offer from the Trump administration ...

Toni Powell had a tumultuous life in Los Angeles, surviving foster care, domestic violence and addiction. So, in 2020, after her mother died of cancer, she decided to move away. She had seen ...

Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB Oregon needs to build about 29,500 more homes each year, mostly in the Portland region and Willamette Valley, to emerge from a housing shortage years in the making, the ...

Water flows from a tap in this file photo. Three Southwest Washington cities are considering new restrictions on fluoride in drinking water. Rebecca Roberts Galloway / OPB Longview, Camas and Battle ...

Hassett didn’t find much in the ash at his family’s Pacific Palisades house, uncovering only some pottery and assorted kitchenware. “It’s nice to find those little things that, you know ...

Oded Balilty / AP OSWIECIM, Poland — The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the site of the former death camp, a ceremony that is ...

The biggest question this session is about how much money the state will invest in public schools for the next biennium. But it’s not the only question. Oregon lawmakers kicked off the 2025 ...

Kristian Foden-Vencil is a reporter and producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting In 2004 he was embedded with the Oregon National Guard in Iraq. Kristian started as a cub reporter in 1988, working ...

Casey Negreiff is a producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting's Morning Edition. Casey got his start in public radio at KPBX, Spokane, Washington's community station where he served as midday host.