City, tribes clash over an 1855 fishing treaty
ARLINGTON More than 150 years after signing a treaty ceding land but preserving their hunting and fishing rights, Columbia River tribes are locked in a legal dispute with this tiny port over whether those rights can change with the course of the ri...
 5.4K - Aug. 3, 2009; scored 1000.0 Harpist uses music to console the dying
SPRINGFIELD In a white-walled hospital room, pancreatic cancer slowly drained all the life that remained in Carolyn. There was nothing more to do for this 62-year-old woman no oxygen or other life support, just a morphine drip to keep her as comf...
6.6K - Jul. 27, 2009; scored 1000.0 Bend: 'poverty with a view'
BEND This city in Oregon's scenic high desert once had one of the nation's hottest economies. Resort developers, bankers, construction workers and luxury car dealers rushed for a piece of the action. Now some locals call Bend poverty with a view....
7.2K - Jul. 20, 2009; scored 1000.0 Government files harassment suit against nursery
PORTLAND - A government lawsuit claims a Molalla nursery allowed female employees to be raped or sexually harassed then retaliated against them and male co-workers after they complained. The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the l...
3.2K - Jun. 19, 2009; scored 1000.0 Portland mayor admits he's behind on house payment
PORTLAND - As if he needed it, more bad news surfaced Tuesday for Portland Mayor Sam Adams. He acknowledged being behind in mortgage payments. County records show default notices filed on two North Portland homes he owns including his residence. Ada...
2.7K - Jun. 17, 2009; scored 1000.0 Portland to get $75 million for streetcars
PORTLAND (AP) - Portland will receive $75 million in federal funds to extend its streetcar line east of the Willamette River, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Thursday. A similar amount will come from local government funding, i...
2.6K - May. 1, 2009; scored 1000.0 Proposal would curb Columbia River gillnetters
PORTLAND Proposed legislation that would curb gillnetting on the lower Columbia River is picking at a sore point that has divided commercial and sport fishermen on the river for decades. Backers say it is a win-win deal for sports and commercial fi...
4.2K - Mar. 27, 2009; scored 1000.0 ID of teen's remains a tragic end to Ore. mystery
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A man walking his dogs found what investigators and a heartbroken family had sought for more than a decade: the remains of a southern Oregon baby sitter who was just 14 when she vanished in 1998. Douglas County Sheriff John Hanl...
4.0K - Mar. 26, 2009; scored 1000.0 March 2010 trial set in Oregon bank bombing
SALEM - A Marion County judge set a tentative March 1, 2010, trial date for a father and son charged in the December bank bombing in Woodburn that killed two police officers and seriously injured a third. But Judge Thomas Hart said he would postpone ...
0.9K - Mar. 19, 2009; scored 1000.0 State Library compiles Oregon 150 Books List
PORTLAND (AP) From Oregon Trail diaries to books on modern politicians, athletes, minorities, poetry and fiction, the Oregon State Library in Salem has compiled an Oregon 150 Books list for the Sesquicentennial 150 books aimed at describing the O...
3.2K - Mar. 4, 2009; scored 1000.0 New strain of often-fatal fungus in Oregon
PORTLAND A new and potentially fatal strain of an airborne fungus, related to one that killed several people on Canada s Vancouver Island, has turned up in Oregon and researchers say they don t know how it got here. Since 1999 Cryptococcus gatti is...
2.7K - Feb. 20, 2009; scored 1000.0 BPA to begin new transmission line
PORTLAND The Bonneville Power administration says it will build a $246 million transmission project that will create at least 700 new jobs. The decision to begin construction this summer is due partly to $3.2 billion in increased ...
2.4K - Feb. 20, 2009; scored 1000.0 At age 150, Oregon is looking ahead
PORTLAND The settlers who made Oregon a state came from rough stock, noble pioneers in some minds, tobacco-spittin hicks in others. They were headed to the western edge of a nation in an expansionist mood. On Saturday, Oregon turns 150. With the r...
6.2K - Feb. 12, 2009; scored 1000.0 Guard tells 433 of possible chemical exposure
PORTLAND The Oregon National Guard has written to 433 of its soldiers to say they may have been exposed to a toxic, carcinogenic chemical at an Iraqi water pumping plant shortly after the war began. Guard spokesman Maj. Mike Braibish said three com...
3.6K - Feb. 12, 2009; scored 1000.0 Ruling allows sea lions to be removed
PORTLAND (AP) A federal judge Thursday denied a request by the Humane Society of the United States for a stay of his order allowing three Western states to resume capturing or killing sea lions that feed on salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam. U.S...
3.1K - Jan. 30, 2009; scored 1000.0 Oregon marks MLK birthday, Obama inaugural
PORTLAND In Portland, volunteers will weatherize homes, frame a fourplex for Habitat for Humanity and put protective covers on books at David Douglas School district. There was an invocation Monday in the Oregon Legislature, and professors in Ashl...
3.2K - Jan. 20, 2009; scored 1000.0 Tribes advance DNA testing on salmon
PORTLAND (AP) The Columbia Inter-Tribal Fish Commission is testing technology to hasten the identity the makeup of salmon populations to determine the mix in any sample of fish, a potentially valuable tool for managing threatened or endangered stoc...
3.1K - Jan. 18, 2009; scored 1000.0 Nursery damage put at $18 to $31 million
PORTLAND Damage estimates to Oregon s nursery stock industry from late December storms suffered by 160 growers in 12 counties range from $18 to $31 million in a survey conducted by the Oregon Association of Nurseries. It s now cle...
2.6K - Jan. 8, 2009; scored 1000.0 One widow's quest for answers
HOOD RIVER (AP) Shivering, weak and injured in a snow cave, on a mountain he and two climbing companions had tried to conquer, Kelly James managed to reach his wife on his cell phone. Hey baby, he said. Hi honey, I love you, Karen James said, fig...
6.8K - Nov. 13, 2008; scored 1000.0 | 
