GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- A U. S. Senate committee has endorsed legislation to extend federal subsidies for timber counties one more year, and to protect more wilderness and wild rivers in Oregon.... more...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon State University is ending a low-cost cooperative housing program that has allowed more than 200 students in four buildings to hire their own cooks.... more...

SEATTLE (AP) -- An official with the Army Corps of Engineers told a Congressional committee Tuesday it doesn't plan a broad environmental study on exporting coal from the Western United States.... more...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- The unemployment rate in Oregon has dipped below 8 percent for the first time since the nation fell steeply into the Great Recession in the fall of 2008.... more...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- An affidavit filed by a sheriff's deputy in last weekend's triple homicide in Coos County says a 65-year-old man told officers he shot and killed his wife and two neighbors and then set fire to the two houses. But there is no word on why he did it.... more...