On Nov. 29, 1938, at the Portland Odd Fellows Home for the Aged, Federal Writers Project worker Walker Winslow sat down with an 86-year-old miner and prospector named Hank Simms ...

In the tall tales of 1840s almanacs, the King of the Wild Frontier had a lively interest in the Beaver State. But...

The shoddily built Portland suburb existed for six years....

It's an event remembered with some shame in Oregon: A group of innocent, terrified men and women found themselves at the mercy of an angry mob...

At great personal risk, Coast Guardsmen had to rescue the skipper twice...

In March 1938, WPA writer Claire Churchill sat down with Anne Abernethy Starr for an oral-history interview...

It was the first news helicopter in the nation, and it gave the Oregon Journal a huge advantage. But then, one day ...

Stories of lost loot and buried booty have kept treasure hunters busy digging for gold in hidden corners of Oregon for the past 150 years.

Industrial Workers of the World union grew strong in the woods just before the First World War broke out...

Before he made it back, Art Lacey had survived a plane crash, bribed a fire department with illegal whiskey, kited a big check and made bitter enemies in Portland City Hall. But hey...