James Lappeus came to Portland from the gold fields of California, where he was a gambler, saloonkeeper and general mining-town rowdy...

When first reported, it looked like a simple murder-suicide. But it quickly became clear that it was something far more sinister...

But did Lischen M. Miller create the story of Muriel Trevenard, the mysterious young woman who came to Newport in the 1870s and vanished ... or ...

Hed spent thousands of hours re-creating historys most mysterious aircraft. Something had gone wrong, and he was about to crash it....

World's most popular cherry was bred by pioneer nurseryman who brought its progenitors in a wagon across the Oregon Trail...

The nationally notorious Oregon Style of newspapering involved vicious personal attacks and a take-no-prisoners style of cutting invective; but...

The tiny coastal town of Depoe Bay was once known for the oldest privately owned aquarium in U.S....

Don't be fooled: Fern Hobbs was a secretary in the Secretary of Defense sense of the word. A practicing attorney, she was the highest-paid woman in public service....

Sometime in 1915, a 40-year-old Black woman named Frankie Baker stepped off the train at Portlands Union Station....

Until the 1980s, you could ride the "Blue Goose" up the Row River past where "Stand By Me" was shot, near Cottage Grove....