Adorably boisterous and hearty, Mayor George Baker was the life of every party. But...

Will Daly had earned the sworn enmity of the newspaper's publisher, Henry Pittock, by exposing his plan to steal city water for his lush West Hills estate....

Ancient electrical wiring ignited Portland's legendary Forestry Building...

Because of how it's chartered, the ghost town of Greenhorn remained an incorporated city even when its population was zero...

The real Mary Leonard was probably someone who had given up the good life after realizing, during her time in jail, that the powerless women of her time were getting a raw deal...

Had Mary Leonard died in 1890, she'd be remembered as she really was a brilliant orator and an inspiration to future Oregon women and attorneys. But...

Many historians, eager to see in her the caricature of the nagging, garrulous fishwife and gold-digging black widow, have missed the real story of Mary Leonard...

Of all the prisoners who tried to escape from Oregon's state prison, the yeggs were most successful if successful is the right word....

A century ago, the drug had a dark, smoky allure for the 'fast' young men and women of Oregon cities...

Largest elephant in captivity went from Tusko the Magnificent, star of Lotus Isle, to Tusko the Unwanted,...