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'We're known for microbreweries and marijuana—and now fentanyl and tent cities,' says Tony Vezina, who runs 4D Recovery, an addiction-recovery organisation in Oregon. Driving around Portland's Old Town, he points [...]

BACK IN THE LATE '90S, I OWNED A SID NUMBER (12218354) and an address in an Oregon state prison. For part of my biddy prison bid-the old heads said my [...]

BRITTANY MAYNARD, a 29-year-old schoolteacher with grade 4 glioblastoma, became a media sensation in 2014 when she announced in a YouTube video her decision to utilize Oregon's Death with Dignity [...]

The racist origin of two states' laws on juries may help bring about change TWO of the jurors who sat in judgment at Willie Dunn junior's murder trial in 2011 [...]

More states are embracing managed care programs for their Medicaid recipients, fueling the debate among policy-makers on the merits of such programs. The Health Care Financing Administration, which must approve [...]

Same-sex marriage is on a legal roll, with Oregon and Pennsylvania the latest places where federal judges have rewritten state marriage laws. The Supreme Court, in last year's Windsor decision, [...]

In 2016, well before the revelations that energized the #MeToo movement, staff and members in Oregon began discussing ways to make the Capitol a more diverse, equitable and inclusive place. [...]

Should health care be enshrined as a constitutional right? The proposed 'Hope Amendment' would have changed Oregon's Constitution to read: 'It is the obligation of the state to ensure that [...]

As the reproductive rights of women in the US are increasingly threatened, the state of Oregon has defied the political landscape and expanded access to abortion, birth control and post-natal [...]

A new measure in Oregon would require all insurance companies in the state to cover abortion procedures and other reproductive services at no cost to patients, regardless of their income [...]

Byline: George F. Will For many months the nation has reverberated with the clanging certitudes that swirl around today's process of confirming Supreme Court justices. Last week the first major [...]

In a week when Attorney General John Ashcroft was struggling with anthrax, investigating September 11 and overhauling his department, he still managed to take on another threat: the voters of [...]

WASHINGTON -- Nov-6 -- (CongressDaily) Attorney General Ashcroft's reversal of his predecessor's interpretation of federal statutes as applied to Oregon's first-in-the-nation, assisted-suicide law provoked a strong response from Sen. Ron [...]

WASHINGTON -- Sep-7 -- (CongressDaily) As the Senate prepares to debate legislation that would effectively overturn Oregon's first-in-the-nation assisted suicide law, a major health group has announced it will not [...]

How two dying patients dealt with a new right: When to die. Troy Thompson's future was coming into full focus. Marilyn, Thompson's tall, blond wife of 15 months, had just [...]

Ladies in Oregon and California, you no longer have to see a doc when your birth control runs out. Both states recently implemented laws allowing pharmacists to prescribe and dispense [...]

Jamaica last week voted to decriminalize marijuana possession in small amounts while legalizing it for medicinal purposes. The government said it anticipated that the move could spur growth in the [...]

The different States in the U.S. are carrying out various measures at their end to try and curb the menace of cyberbullying. They are working with social-networking sites as well as bringing out legislations for anti-bullying.