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Oregon withstood many challenges en route to being the only unbeaten team and the top seed in the College Football Playoff.
An Oregon house cat died after eating pet food that tested positive for bird flu, Oregon authorities said, prompting a recall of raw frozen pet food that was sold nationwide.
Ohio State players had been thinking about a rematch with Oregon long before the Buckeyes crushed Tennessee in a first-round playoff game.
Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel, Colorado’s Travis Hunter, Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty and Miami’s Cam Ward have been announced as the Heisman Trophy finalists.
College football’s conference shakeup left concerns about two super conferences dominating the playoff field.
Georgia moved up to No. 2 behind Oregon in The Associated Press college football poll.
SMU captured the last open spot in the 12-team College Football Playoff, bumping Alabama to land in a bracket that placed undefeated Oregon at No. 1.
Dillon Gabriel threw four touchdown passes and No. 1 Oregon outlasted No. 3 Penn State 45-37 on Saturday night in the Big Ten championship, giving the Ducks a first-round bye and almost certainly the top seed in the College Football Playoff.
Oregon and Penn State piled up seven touchdowns, 537 yards, 28 first downs and 55 points in the Big Ten title game.
Undefeated Oregon pulled off the expected and grabbed the top spot in the College Football Playoff.
There’s more than just school pride and bragging rights to all that bellyaching over who might be in and who might be out of college football’s first 12-team playoff.
The powerful earthquake that struck in Northern California on Thursday prompted a brief tsunami warning affecting about 5 million people along a stretch of the West Coast — from Northern California to Oregon — before being canceled.
Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Oregon and Ohio State are bringing in the nation's top recruiting class as high school prospects across the country finalize their college plans.
Texas A&M signed the nation’s top-ranked class three years ago believing it had built a potential national title contender.
Kansas continues to hold the No. 1 ranking in The Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll.
The first season of major conference expansion has produced an intriguing set of championship games this week, and not just because they'll determine which teams get automatic bids and first-round byes in the College Football Playoff.
Ohio State, Miami and Clemson plunged in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll following losses over the weekend.
The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians in Oregon have just celebrated newly lifted restrictions on their rights to hunt, fish and gather.
The Big 12 will command a lot of attention in the final week of the regular season.
Alabama and Mississippi tumbled out of the top 10 of The Associated Press college football poll and Miami and SMU moved in following a chaotic weekend in the SEC.
Drug reform advocates hailed Oregon as a progressive leader when it became the first in the nation to legalize the therapeutic use of psilocybin, the compound found in psychedelic mushrooms.
One of the strongest storms on the West Coast in decades knocked out power for thousands of people and unleashed strong winds that toppled trees and left two dead in Washington before making its way through Oregon to Northern California.
A major storm was sweeping across the U.S. Northwest, battering the region with strong winds and rain.
What is expected to be one of the strongest storms in the northwest U.S. in decades has arrived.
Oregon remains the unanimous No. 1 team in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll after its close call at Wisconsin.
Atticus Sappington broke a tie with a 24-yard field goal with 2:36 remaining and No. 1 Oregon rallied in the fourth quarter to beat Wisconsin 16-13 on Saturday night.
Oregon stayed on top in the second batch of College Football Playoff rankings, while the new poll shoved Georgia completely out of the bracket after its lopsided loss to Mississippi.
South Carolina is a unanimous No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll after a pair of victories to kick off its national championship repeat bid.
Oregon’s dominance in its first year in the Big Ten and Indiana’s monumental turnaround have helped the conference stack four of its teams in the top five of The Associated Press college football poll for the first time.
Oregon is the No. 1 team in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll for the fourth straight week.
Undefeated Oregon got top billing in the first set of rankings on the road to college football's new, 12-team playoff.
Dillon Gabriel threw a touchdown pass and ran for a score in another efficient performance from the Heisman Trophy front-runner to lead No. 1 Oregon to a 38-17 win over Michigan.
Voters in two counties in Washington state and Oregon have not received mail-in ballots with less than a week to go before the election, election officials say.
Oregon, Georgia and Miami remained the top three seeds in The Associated Press College Football Playoff bracket projection with BYU overtaking Iowa State for No. 4.
This college football season is delivering when it comes to unpredictability and entertainment value.
Oregon has become the fourth team this season to hold the No. 1 ranking in The Associated Press college football poll.
Jordan James ran for two scores and Dillon Gabriel threw for two more, leading No. 2 Oregon to a 35-0 rout at Purdue.
The Oregon football team's decision to exploit a loophole in the rules late in a win over Ohio State is hardly new.
The NCAA football rules committee has issued guidance to close a loophole that allowed second-ranked Oregon to exploit an illegal substitution penalty late in its victory over Ohio State to take time off the clock.
No. 2 Oregon had 12 men on the field late in its 32-31 win over No. 4 Ohio State, with the resulting penalty causing precious seconds to wind off the clock.
Oregon and Penn State each moved up a spot in The Associated Press college football poll following thrilling wins in high-profile games.
Oregon receiver Traeshon Holden was ejected from the third-ranked Ducks' game against Ohio State for unsportsmanlike conduct after he spit on a Buckeyes player.
Oregon's Multnomah County, home to Portland, has added the state's largest natural gas utility to its $51.5 billion climate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies.
Citing weather issues, Major League Baseball moved the start time of Saturday’s decisive Game 5 of the AL Division Series between Detroit and Cleveland from 8:08 p.m. to a 1:08 p.m. The change was announced Friday as the Tigers were going through a workout at Progressive Field.
National Republicans and Democrats are keenly eyeing the Pacific Northwest, where two of the most competitive U.S. House races in the country are playing out.
Oregon transportation authorities waited weeks to tell elections officials about an error that registered over 1,200 people to vote despite them not providing proof of U.S. citizenship.
Off the coast of Oregon, the wind blows hard and waves are strong, attracting researchers and businesses interested in developing two kinds of clean electricity: wave energy and floating offshore wind.
The Pac-12 is adding Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State and San Diego State, starting in 2026, to join Oregon State and Washington State in a rebuilt Conference of Champions.
Thousands of firefighters are battling a wildfire in northern California that exploded in size — one of several blazes tearing through the western United States and Canada amid dry, hot and windy conditions.
Wildfires are continuing to scorch the West, and authorities say one major blaze started with a burning car being pushed into a gully.
The U.S. and Canada say they have agreed to update a treaty that governs the use of one of North America’s largest rivers, the Columbia, with provisions that officials said would provide for effective flood control, irrigation, and hydropower generation and sharing between the countries.
Hundreds of Europeans touring the American West and adventurers from around the U.S. are still being drawn to Death Valley National Park.
The Detroit Pistons have made a promising acquisition, securing shooting guard Wendell Moore Jr and the valuable No. 37 pick of the second round in exchange for the No. 53 pick.
A rapidly growing wildfire near the central Oregon community of La Pine is being spurred by gusty winds and prompting evacuations.
Neil Goldschmidt, a former Oregon governor whose confession that he had sex with a 14-year-old in the 1970s blackened what had been a nearly sterling reputation, has died.
A dog has helped his owner get rescued after a car crash in a steep ravine in mountainous northeastern Oregon.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says consumers should avoid eating shellfish from Oregon and Washington state as they may be contaminated with toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning.
A massive rare fish thought to only live in temperate waters in the southern hemisphere has washed up on Oregon's northern coast.
Pacific Power, part of PacifiCorp, says it has agreed to a nearly $180 million settlement with over 400 Oregon plaintiffs.
The presidential primaries that Joe Biden and Donald Trump have already clinched are moving closer to their end.
A California congressman says tribes should be more involved in the decision-making process for the development of the first offshore wind farms along the West Coast.
An immigrant from Laos who has been battling cancer won an enormous $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot in Oregon earlier this month.
The hotel featured in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film “The Shining” says it will reopen to guests Sunday after a fire that prompted evacuations but caused only minimal damage.
The most significant case in decades on homelessness has reached the Supreme Court as record numbers of people in America are without a permanent place to live.
Lawmakers in at least 12 states are debating bills that would legalize physician-assisted death.
Oregon lottery officials say the winner of the eighth-biggest lottery prize in U.S. history won’t be announced for at least a couple more weeks while the win is verified and arrangements for the massive payment are made.
Someone in Oregon has claimed the $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot won last weekend, which is the eighth-largest lottery prize in U.S. history.
A Powerball player in Oregon has won a jackpot worth more than $1.3 billion, ending a winless streak that had stretched more than three months.
Steven Ashworth and Ryan Kalkbrenner made 3-pointers in the second overtime and Creighton edged past its former coach — Oregon’s Dana Altman — to move into the Sweet 16 with an 86-73 win in the Midwest Region.
N’Faly Dante, playing with a bruised tailbone, made all 12 of his shots and scored 25 points, and Oregon secured an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament by defeating Colorado 75-68 on Saturday night to end the Pac-12 Conference era.
Officials say a post-flight inspection revealed a missing panel on a 25-year-old Boeing 737-800 after it arrived at its destination in southern Oregon.
No. 2Stanford and No. 3 Iowa have jumped up behind top-ranked South Carolina in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll.
A bipartisan group of Oregon lawmakers are working to boost funding for jails to provide medication used to treat opioid addiction.
Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer tied Mike Krzyzewski as winningest coach in college basketball history with her 1,202nd victory, guiding the No. 8 Cardinal past Oregon 88-63 while losing leading scorer Cameron Brink for the final three quarters with a leg injury.
Five of the six major conferences have a leader or co-leader that failed to make the NCAA Tournament last season.
