In Oregon, a progressive bastion, voter discontent has incumbent Tina Kotek on the defensive. Her struggle shows the perils of incumbency this angry election season.

The shooting at the Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Ore., that left four dead on Thursday came fewer than three weeks before votes are tallied in Oregon’s razor-thin governor’s race, and guns were already an issue.

A suspicious package mailed to the Oregon Secretary of State's office was intercepted, the office said Oct. 16.

Oregon counties started mailing ballots to registered voters on Wednesday, which means ballots will start arriving at voters’ homes this week. And now, for the first time, voters statewide are eligible for a free service from the Secretary of State’s Office that allows them to get updates about the status of their ballots via text,

Rock icon and Portland resident Carrie Brownstein this week endorsed Gov. Tina Kotek in her nail-biter reelection campaign, with polls showing Kotek and Republican challenger state Sen. Christine Drazan statistically tied. Brownstein, co-star of “Portlandia” and guitarist and vocalist with Sleater-Kinney, posted her endorsement on Instagram on Wednesday night, saying that touring around the ...

Democratic U.S. Rep. Janelle Bynum faced off against her Republican challenger, Deschutes County Commissioner Patti Adair, in a televised debate over who should represent Oregon’s 5th Congressional District. The debate began at 6 p.m. Wednesday and was broadcast on KTVZ 21 and livestreamed for free at KTVZ.com. Bynum, who is serving her first term in Congress after four terms in the Oregon ...

Democratic candidate Kriss Wright is challenging incumbent Rep. Anna Scharf, R-Amity, in a third rematch for Oregon House District 23.

State Sen. David Brock Smith is looking to defeat Democratic U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley and be the first Republican elected to represent Oregon since 2002.

Over the years, the desperate search to pinpoint exactly where Oregon’s public education system went so wrong has yielded many a culprit du jour. It’s the lack of money, some say, or the way schools spend it, the fact that children don’t show up or that so many of them sit out state tests. It’s the painfully short school year, the decades-old state commitments to lifetime benefits for teacher ...