The gesture comes as county commissioners face pressure from property owners — mostly in rural areas — to advocate against ...

The U.S. hasn't seen a major realignment of state boundaries since the Civil War. It's unlikely to happen now.

For several years, residents in rural, Republican-leaning eastern Oregon have been laying the groundwork to separate from the Democratic-dominated counties on the western side of the Cascade ...

One type of secession active in 2025 is when one or more rural counties seek to secede from the current state to join a ...

But in the eastern two-thirds ... the same movement for counties in the Land of Lincoln that are closer to the Hawkeye State line. Idaho GOP Gov. Brad Little and Oregon Democratic Gov.

For several years, residents in rural, Republican-leaning eastern Oregon ... Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library. “It would be such an enormous lift.” Suffolk County Executive ...

The population of Multnomah County, the dense urban core of the Portland metro, rose a hair last year, even as it remained ...

But in 2023, with more than 1,820 drug deaths statewide, most eastern Oregon counties had overdoses, with 13 deaths in Umatilla County alone. In Malheur County, five people died and 24 visited ...