The number of young children identified as having developmental delays has risen in Oregon, led mainly by a huge one-year surge in Multnomah County, the state reported Wednesday.

The Obama Administration raised concerns today about a compromise bill for managing national forests east of the Cascades, saying the bill's mandates to thin 300,000 acres in the next three years may generate "unrealistic expectations" in timber towns.

SALEM, Ore. -- The conservative political activist says he barely has $100 in the bank, is working for $10 an hour planting trees and clearing brush, and makes barely enough to buy groceries.

Last year, investigators were flummoxed over a salmonella outbreak that started with one case in Oregon in July and then grew, adding clusters of cases across the country.

The UO Index of Economic Indicators jumped 1.7 percent to 88.5, economist Tim Duy said. The scale measured 100 in 1997.

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning letter to a bean sprout processing plant in Northeast Portland, citing a rodent-infested facility with unsanitary conditions.

When Ted Wheeler steps down as Multnomah County Chairman Thursday, he also removes the lone voice calling for a takeover of the jails from the sheriff.

Oregon's ocean and shore birds are among the species most at risk from climate change as rising sea levels impact low-lying areas, according to a report released Thursday by the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Between October's panic over H1N1 flu vaccine shortages and the ho-hum December dwindling of swine flu, it may be hard to get a good idea how bad the swine flu was.

EUGENE, Ore. -- A discussion group known for hosting speakers with anti-Semitic views will no longer meet on the University of Oregon's main campus.

GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday kept alive claims by Klamath Basin farmers that the federal government should pay them for shutting off water to crops in 2001 to help protected fish survive a drought.

For the first time in two years, Oregon's commercial fishermen will be allowed to catch chinook salmon all along the Oregon coast under three fishing options detailed Thursday by a federal panel.

Gov. Ted Kulongoski signed a bill Wednesday that splits money from the future sale of the Oregon School for the Blind between a fund for the blind and the School for the Deaf, settling a legal challenge against the state.

Gov. Ted Kulongoski skipped the 2010 Olympic Games. He chose instead to spend six hours on a bus to Vancouver, B.C., Thursday with nearly 60 Oregonians you've never heard of. Destination: the 2010 Paralympic Games.

HILLSBORO, Ore. -- Ricardo Serrano, who killed a mother and her sons in an act of vengeance against his wife's lover, will die for his crimes, a jury decided Thursday.

HILLSBORO, Ore. -- A jury sentenced killer Ricardo Serrano to death Thursday, but the multilayered appeals process -- which one expert says could cost taxpayers $1 million before Serrano is put to death decades from now -- has just begun.

EUGENE, Ore. -- By the end of this year, Seneca Sustainable Energy plans to fire up a power plant that will convert about 700 tons a day of logging leftovers and waste from its nearby sawmill into enough electricity to power 13,000 homes.

Former state Treasurer Jim Hill of Salem decided Thursday not to run for his old office after all.

A memorial service for state Treasurer Ben Westlund will be a people's service, not a formal farewell.

SEATTLE -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will consider ways the states can address rising acidity levels in oceans, which pose a serious threat to shellfish and other marine life.

California's chinook-salmon fishery is likely to be opened this year after two straight closed fishing seasons — but with restrictions, according to recommendations released Thursday by a federal panel.

The sweeping ruling shot down the arguments of a Sacramento atheist who has been trying in the courts for a decade to end the morning practice because he considers it government endorsement of religion.

Both political parties are taking tea party activists seriously and are wary of offending them – if they are not already actively wooing them for state races this fall. Just look at the governor’s election in Ohio. Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich openly touts his tea party credentials in his bid to defeat incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland. “I think I was in the tea party before there was a tea party,” Kasich famously told a Columbus crowd earlier this year. “This is a real movement with a real message about people’s frustrations by broken promises that leaders on both sides of the aisle would be foolish to ignore,” he went on to write in a blog posting.