State leaders had hoped a federal research center would anchor a new generation of semiconductor research in Oregon.

Pope Francis has appointed Cardinal Robert McElroy, a vocal defender of migrants and critic of Donald Trump’s first ...

Effective government begins with districts that reflect real communities, yet Wisconsin’s maps still fall short of this basic ...

Stacker ranked the counties with the shortest life expectancy in Oregon using data from the University of Wisconsin ...

Oregonians don’t need elaborate mission statements or new task forces plowing over the same old ground. They aren’t looking for leaders to make symbolic stands on federal issues while ignoring the ...

There’s often speculation about whether the United States will add a 51st state. Most often, attention focuses on Puerto Rico ...

Throughout Earl Blumenauer’s 28 years in the US House of Representatives, his constituents back home have taken a certain ...

Editor’s note: The Capital Chronicle has launched a $10,000 end-of-year fundraising campaign to help us continue our ...

Gov. Tina Kotek had been planning to designate 373 acres of farmland near Hillsboro for industrial development, to make room for federal semiconductor research. She backed off those plans Friday as it ...

But coastal safety is the primary factor driving her work with the Great Lakes Observing System, a Michigan nonprofit working ...

The president-elect has shaken up state-level results across his three campaigns.

From politicians and political dissidents to civil rights activists to a Nobel prize-winning physicist, the world said ...