A series of debates between Republican Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer and her challenger for Oregon’s 5th Congressional District, Democrat Janelle Bynum, grew progressively ugly over the past two weeks as the candidates jabbed at one another with increasing fervor.s

Oregon voters should start receiving their ballots for the November election this week. Counties started mailing them out today. You have two choices for returning your ballot. First is returning your ballot by mail and no stamp is needed.

A lot of political changes are coming to Portland, Oregon. The open mayoral race in the state’s most populous city features 19 candidates and comes after years of growing frustration over homeless encampments and open drug use.

Iowa, Kansas, Nevada, Oregon and Rhode Island began early voting on Wednesday, leaving just one state to kick off the 2024 election.

Three Portland-area school districts will ask voters to support property taxes next month to fund teachers or pay for upgrades to school buildings. The Parkrose School District hopes to pass a levy that it says would raise $19.

Elected to the Senate in 2022 at 26 to represent a district stretching from Cedar Hills to Aloha, Campos, now 28, remains the youngest member of the upper chamber by a country mile. She wasn’t a heavy hitter during the last session. But given her youth and inexperience, perhaps that’s to be expected.

In November, Oregon voters will decide on a statewide ranked choice voting measure that could change the way votes are tallied for federal and state offices.

The winner of the Nov. 5 election will be the successor to LaVonne Griffin-Valade who was appointed by Gov. Tina Kotek following Shemia Fagan’s 2023 resignation. Dennis Richardson was the most recent Republican elected as Oregon’s secretary of state.

All four congressional candidates touted their experiences and outlined policy positions at a candidate forum hosted by the City Club of Eugene.

The election is the first time since 2008 that there has not been an incumbent running for the state's top lawyer.

Virginia Stapleton, a Democrat, is running against Rep. Kevin Mannix, a Republican, for House District 21. The district includes central Salem and Keizer along with parts of north and east Salem.

A former policy analyst for the Oregon Department of Education, Bowman can boast of directing $150 million to early literacy programs, securing matching funds so that every kid in the state has access to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library,