If rent-control measures pass in all of the states and cities where they're currently on the table, nearly a third of all renter households in the United States could secure relief.
Bills introduced in California and Oregon are the latest in an ongoing movement to enfranchise more young people.
A measles outbreak hits the Northwest, Australia breaks heat records, and a fourth state mulls banning the gay panic defense.
As wolves arrive in California for the first time since the 1920s, ranchers are turning to non-lethal methods to deter the gray wolves, once seen as livestock-killing vermin.
New evidence suggests Oregon's Medicaid expansion boosted short-term political participation in the years immediately after the law was passed.
The embattled Oregon governor talks to Pacific Standard about offshore oil, sexism in politics, and her neck-and-neck race against political newcomer Knute Buehler.
In Juliana v. United States, a group of young plaintiffs is trying to force the government into climate action—whether the president wants to or not.
The Oregon drought this year is most striking because it covers many coastal areas known historically as some of the wettest in the country.
Oregon Governor Kate Brown announced a plan to block offshore drilling off the state's coast on Monday.
There are also major wildfires in five other states.
There is nothing more #MAGA than cowboys running the West.
Grizzlies can soon be hunted in Yellowstone, Trump can't block you on Twitter, and a young arsonist gets what he had coming.
A proposed natural gas pipeline is uniting Oregonians across the political spectrum.
Child removals due to disability are increasingly common, but parents have begun to fight back.
Conservation groups are threatening to use legal action to prevent the continued culling of the animal by Wildlife Services.
Investigators say the Eagle Creek Fire was likely started by a boy's misuse of fireworks. Now Oregonians are calling for criminal charges.
In general, states with higher costs of living also have higher wages, but the relationship isn't perfect—and it works out well better than average, for Oregonians.
Even with Ammon Bundy's arrest, don't expect the occupation to end quickly or peacefully.
The Burns Paiute tribe has got more of a right to that land than Ammon Bundy, or anyone else for that matter.
For centuries, the federal government has bailed out cattle ranchers in Oregon and other Western states. It requires a lot of magical thinking—and historical erasure—to see “tyranny” in Harney County.
Climate activists hope the city's actions could inspire a broader movement.
A look at the potential consequences of Oregon and California's latest birth-control laws.
We canvassed the world of the social and behavioral sciences, looking for rising stars whose careers promise to make a lasting mark. We'll be profiling the top 30 throughout the month of April.
Atlantic Canada is reportedly dying. I'll spend this week explaining why that isn't the case.
