Oregon state treasurer Ben Westlund, who helped stabilize the Oregon college savings plan after one of its managers posted big losses, has died after a long battle with lung cancer. He was 60. Westlund served 12 years in the Oregon Legislature, first as a Republican ...

Gay groups are cheering Wednesday's Senate introduction of a bill that would repeal “don't ask, don't tell,” the military policy that bans open gay service.

Independent Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman is the lead sponsor of the measure ...

The thousands of California sea lions that showed up this winter off the central Oregon coast seem to have largely moved on. In San Francisco, last fall's abrupt disappearance of the creatures left tourists disappointed. Now they're slowly returning to San Francisco's ...

An Oregon man has been indicted on charges of illegally using shell corporations to move $172 million to 50 countries. Federal prosecutors said Wednesday that Victor Kaganov of Tigard was indicted on a charge of operating an unlicensed money transmitting business that made more than 4,200 ...