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Though the name hydrangea comes from the Greek for water vessel -- a reference to the plant's cuplike seed pods -- I prefer to think that the plant was named after the mythical, many-headed serpent Hydra.

The results are in from Oregon's first online primary election: Fewer than 2,300 of the 57,000 members of the Independent Party voted.

Al Gore will not face criminal charges after police said a "lack of credible evidence" means they will not pursue allegations of sex abuse made against the former vice president by a Portland massage therapist.

LibertyBank which grew from its first office in Bend, Oregon to sixteen statewide locations was closed down on Friday.

Jeanna Frazzini, executive director of Basic Rights Oregon, will talk about gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender issues facing local residents at a Tuesday, Aug.

The Oregon Blue Book, a guide to Oregon government and the state, turns 100 in 2011.

OK, this isn't Bones & Brew, it's the late Booker Noe, master distiller of Beam bourbons, at a barbecue at McMenamins Edgefield in the late 1990s.

The corn is as high as, well, you know.A And there are cows, lots of cows.A Welcome to Wisconsin, America's Dairyland.A Pam and Frank Turner arrived here just in the past few days and it's been something of a revelation.

Yodit Derese clutches her Ethiopian prayer book as she's wheeled to an operating room for surgery on her right foot.

In the last decade Oregon State University has doubled it's research funding to $275 million for the 2009-10 year.

By David Rives Anna Griffin's column slamming public employees and their unions was a tired rehash of making public employees the scapegoats in the ongoing budget crisis, and advocates for a "race to the bottom," approach as the solution.

The Jackson County sheriff has asked the Oregon Supreme Court to overturn lower-court decisions that said he was wrong to deny a concealed handgun license to a woman with a medical marijuana card.

An Oregon man who federal prosecutors said had the largest collection of child pornography they have ever found in the state has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

A couple of days after a tough 24-hour stretch for John Kitzhaber , theA Democratic gubernatorial candidate has released his first TV ad of the general election a little more than three months before the November ballot in Oregon.

This space in a building at 322 S.E. 82nd Ave., previously known as Aaron's Wine Cellar, is slated to become the new location of Cannabis Cafe.

A 73-year-old man missing since Monday near the southern Oregon coastal town of Port Orford has been found in the Rogue River National Forest.

PORTLAND - The backers of what would be the first non-tribal casino in Oregon went to court Wednesday hoping to get a statewide vote on their project.

Barring some late-summer miracle, Oregon schools won't get a new infusion of money from Congress.

Oregon's lineup of statewide initiatives is now set for the Nov. 2 ballot. The final initiative awaiting word from state officials on signature verifications was one supported by enviros to lock into the Oregon Constitution 15 percent of Oregon Lottery proceeds for parks and habitat .

Oregon Green Free CEO Jim Klahr says his group was unhappy that the daily called an upcoming medical marijuana ballot measure a a oecharade.a The group also took offense to The Oregoniana s use of quotation marks around certain words such as "patient", suggesting illegitimacy of marijuana patients and the medicine they use.