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Updated at 6:08 pm to include current and advertised salaries. Mayor Keith Wilson announced Monday that the city’s search for ...

In her 1970 essay “On the Morning After the Sixties,” Joan Didion described her disillusionment with the idea that political ...

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The Oklahoma City Thunder came to the Moda Center Wednesday, November 5. The defending NBA champs. 8-0 start to the season. A ...

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Thank you for leading me to this rabbithole of scientific and taxonomic discovery. Love a good perspective flip. No, it hadn't occurred to me before, I was stuck on how their tails look like mermaids.

Governor Tina Kotek signed a new state transportation funding package into law on Monday, more than a month after the Oregon ...

Last month, the progressive block of the Portland City Council signed onto a pledge to investigate the city’s financial ties ...