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On Monday Oct. 26, health officials announced 339 new coronavirus cases in Oregon, bringing the state’s total identified...

With Election Day looming just one week from today, Benton County voters are making sure their voices are...

Salem, OR—Governor Kate Brown announced on Saturday that Multnomah County has been added to the County Watch List....

As wildfire season winds down, and we transition from survival mode to cleanup mode, questions arise about the...

Oregon is home to dozens of spooky, spine-chilling urban legends, haunting residents for decades, some even centuries. Dive...

 Welcome back to the Advocate’s Monthly Book Review. This month I’m reviewing A Murder in my Hometown by...

Prior to the recent wildfires across Oregon and along the west coast, Oregon State University had already begun developing a...

Oregon is not the only place seeing historic and unprecedented wildfires in recent years. Australia, for example, experienced...

The Advocate is looking for creative pieces again.  We will be open for submissions for 3 weeks –...

When the deadly Camp Fire inferno burned through communities in Northern California in 2018, Barry Dusty and his...

In Oregon, we have watched California experience devastating wildfires year after year. This summer, we watched our own...

Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley wrote a letter on Oct. 2 pressing the U.S. Forest Service...

The coronavirus pandemic brought with it a drop in mandatory child abuse reports, but child welfare advocates and...

As you can tell from its name, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children pursues one of...

As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, Benton County is one of many counties in Oregon that expanded...

Have you been feeling more dissociated lately, like hours pass without too much notice and your brain checks...

Somedays, getting out of bed is hard. Like, trying-to-drain-the-ocean-with-a-teaspoon hard. Your physical body may be exhausted, and your...