President-elect Donald Trump is planning on taking the country in a different direction than Democratically led Washington ...

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Last year, U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler, a New York Republican, introduced legislation that would have prohibited the district from ...

President-elect Donald Trump announced he plans to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human ...

Oregon’s U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat, vowed at a Portland town hall to pass a relief bill by the end of the year, ...

The Associated Press called the 5th Congressional District for Democrat Janelle Bynum on Thursday morning, meaning Democrats ...

Democrat Janelle Bynum has defeated incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer and will give Oregon a 5-1 Democratic majority in Congress, the third time she has beaten her Republican rival in ...

Oregon mostly held to its usual political patterns this election, but there was change, especially in the 5th Congressional ...

Increased costs for schools to the Public Employee Retirement System could more than erase the governor’s proposed boost to ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans on Wednesday elected South Dakota Sen. John Thune as that chamber’s next majority leader ...

Northwest could hold megatons of planet-warming emissions but the infrastructure needed for that is new and costly.

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday night he will nominate South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem to ...