News Columbia River swimmer Christopher Swain isn't sure which is more challenging: whitewater, freezing temperatures, or fending off comments of KUFO afternoon jocks Porkchop and Craig the Dog-faced B ...   More

News Dreams of a short special legislative session in Salem turned to nightmares last Friday when it became obvious that rival factions in the House Republican caucus had brought tax proposals to a whi ...   More

News A week ago, Oregon voters awoke to the final results of the May primary and yawned. Two graying white guys will face off for governor. The school-funding crisis wasn't solved. To add insult to enn ...   More

News Page 6 of this week's issue features an ad purchased by Oregon Health & Science University responding to a recent article about the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center ("The Year of the Mo ...   More

News A quick trip to Powell's Travel Store reveals more than two dozen Portland guidebooks. Each, in its own way, tries to capture a sense of what makes this fair city special. None, however, can compa ...   More

News Until this year, candidates for state office could not legally put the squeeze on potential donors while lawmakers were doing the people's business (and also were, presumably, more susceptible to the ...   More

News By the time the FBI searched Ward WeaverÕs Oregon City home over the weekend, few people had any doubts about what theyÕd find. Sure enough, the remains of Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis, two girl ...   More