On Jan. 3, 1939, Federal Writers Project worker Andrew Sherbert sat down with a slim, quick-moving gray haired 70-year-old furrier/pelt buyer named Louis Schumacher...

AT THE TIME of this writing, the Christmas shopping season is just starting to spool up, and folks are getting ready for some serious holiday eating. ...

During the heyday of hydropathy, the remote mountainside resort was Clackamas Countys No. 1 tourist draw...

If so, the Linn County lad might have revolutionized air travel. But...

Thomas B. Slate first invented the commercial production process for making dry ice, then took his new-made fortune...

On April 28, 1938, Federal Writers Project worker Andrew Sherbert sat down with a stocky, rugged-looking 74-year-old prospector and former riverboat captain named W.H. Hembree...

It's nearly certain that Drake was guilty only of extreme naivete and his landlord, after murdering a neighbor, knew he could pin the crime on him...

The big sub was a key part of Oregon history; it fired on Battery Russell in June 1942, tried to light a forest fire with its on-board airplane that September...

Danford Balch got drunk and shotgunned his new son-in-law on the deck of the Stark Street Ferry. His diary and official records tell part of the story. But

Below decks, a chemical fire burned freely through the hold of the Challenger...