Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith’s box office last week was enough to make it one of the top-grossing re-release weekends in history, behind Star Wars - A New Hope’s $36 million ...

Bradley W. Parks / OPB Oregon lawmakers would hike the state’s gas tax by 15 cents and increase or institute nearly 10 new taxes or fees under a transportation funding proposal expected to be ...

President Trump on Friday signed an executive order aimed at reducing the national security and public safety threats posed by drones in the United States. Trump is ordering a task force to ensure ...

Andrew Harnik / Getty Images The Trump administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and allow the dramatic staffing cuts it has tried to make at the U.S. Department of Education ...

The Supreme Court, on Friday, for now gave the DOGE team launched by Elon Musk unfettered access to information collected by the Social Security Administration, data that includes Social Security ...

Joni Land / OPB That led to fears that the sudden closure could leave thousands of Job Corps students with no job prospects and, in many cases, with no place to live. In addition to the more than ...

DHS officials requested 20,000 National Guard troops three weeks ago, but this memo details what duties those troops will be asked to perform. The memo, dated May 9, from Andrew Whitaker, the ...

A bill that aims to require large energy users like data centers and cryptocurrency businesses to pay their share for electricity use is headed to the governor’s desk to be signed into law.

That hasn’t happened — the state’s graduation rate is around 82% — but the goal sparked the creation of a 12-year reporting project at OPB called “Class of 2025.” OPB journalists began ...

So why in God’s name are we shuttering SAMHSA?” “We are not shuttering SAMHSA,” Kennedy responded, mentioning his own history of addiction and the loved ones he’s lost to overdose.

“I hope that we can somehow replicate some sort of that history here ... Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB “I see how in unison they are, and that’s what we want to do, too,” Kanal said.

The agency has a long history of failing to help vulnerable disaster survivors, but reforms under the Biden administration were starting to fix those long-standing problems. FEMA has been plagued ...