A judge has ruled that public defenders can refuse to take on more cases if they believe that the workload threatens their obligation to provide a defendant with ethical counsel. The ruling stems from ...

An Oregon jury awarded $305 million to 16 survivors of the 2020 Santiam Canyon wildfires on Feb. 25 in the class action ...

A Clackamas County judge has dealt a major blow to state-mandated caseload quotas, ruling that the Oregon Public Defense ...

Oregon’s House Wednesday advanced a bill that pushes back the date when the state’s stalled gun control Measure 114 would ...

A federal court’s recent ruling shields members of a national trade association from Oregon’s Extended Producer ...

In downtown Hillsboro, one pediatric clinic cares for some 15,000 children insured through Medicaid. It represents just one small corner of Oregon impacted by the state's public defense crisis.

Environmentalists are challenging the Fish and Wildlife Service decision to not provide an Endangered Species Act listing for the red tree vole’s north Oregon population. Oregon’s red tree vole is ...

Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield reflected on one year of battling the Trump administration in court while speaking in ...

The legislation comes as the Oregon Supreme Court weighs whether to uphold the 2022 voter-approved gun control law.

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down some of President Donald Trump's tariffs Feb. 20, siding with Oregon in a 6-3 decision.