The confirmed death toll from a chemical tank rupture in Longview has now climbed to two, officials said Wednesday morning, ...

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Emergency responders announced late Tuesday that they’d suspended operations at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Company due in ...

While the nonprofit is negotiating with a national carrier over the operation of its Medicare Advantage plan, a majority of its health insurance business will wind down by 2027. Providence will ...

Longview schools Superintendent Karen Cloninger was arrested Thursday morning on charges related to a student sexual assault investigation at Mark Morris High School. FILE: Mark Morris High School in ...

Oregon transportation officials say they are reviewing a decision to temporarily stop issuing undercover license plates to federal law enforcement agencies, a policy that has prompted recent legal ...

Washington state was outpaced only by California in the number of tech workers laid off last year. More than 11,000 tech workers in Washington lost their jobs between May 2025 and April of this year, ...

Everyone who was in the Pacific Northwest on May 18, 1980 has some kind of story about the Mount St. Helens eruption. OPB producer Ian McCluskey revisited that fateful day with some people who ...

The statewide picture for tax measures was a mixed bag during the primary election.

Local journalism across the country and the Pacific Northwest has been under intense financial pressure for several decades, forcing many local newspapers and other media outlets to close or shrink ...

Lerett, who is identifying with an alias, sits outside a memorial outside of the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement building in Portland on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. “Our system is broken and we ...

Joni Auden Land / OPB Over the past five years, more than 36 million acres of land have burned in wildfires across the United States. But the impacts of those wildfires reached far beyond the areas ...