As Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) approaches the end of his third term in 2026, it is not clear if he’s running for re-election ...

Registered voters in Oregon and across the country are determining the next president, the makeup of Congress and state legislatures, local races for sheriff, city council and mayor, and more.

Oregon's U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley speak at a town hall at Portland's Jefferson High School in 2019. Neither ...

The bill would require the governor of Oregon to appoint a U.S. senator within 30 days of a vacancy and a special election ...

Senate Bill 952 would allow the governor to appoint someone to fill a suddenly vacant U.S. Senate seat rather than wait for a ...

Under current law, vacancies in both Oregon U.S. Senate and U.S. House seats are filled by special election, with no ...

The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hear a case against late mail-in ballots in Illinois. Washington State ...

Democratic state attorneys general on Friday will seek to block President Donald Trump's proposal for a sweeping overhaul of U.S. elections in a case that tests a constitutional bedrock — the ...

The lawsuit with the state of Washington was one of three Oregon filed Friday against the Trump Administration.

The top law enforcement officials from 19 states filed a federal lawsuit after the Republican president signed the executive ...