Oregon Capital Chronicle

An explosion of data center facilities, including the one pictured here in Umatilla County on May 18, 2026, have been built in Oregon along the Columbia River Gorge during the last few years. The boom has caused a more than 500% load growth for the Umatilla Electric Cooperative during the last decade, which has had to buy more gas and coal-powered elec...

Storefront signs in downtown Hood River, Oregon, indicate support for immigrants and tell federal agents they're not welcome. (Photo by Randy Stapilus/Oregon Capital Chronicle)

Visit Hood River, as so many people do, and you’ll see on the front windows of many downtown businesses a sign saying: “We are immigrants,” and sometimes next to them sig...

The historic gift shop at Otter Crest located south of Depoe Bay is now open to the public following upgrades to the building so it can better withstand the ocean environment. (Oregon Parks and Recreation Department)

From a refreshed historical gift shop to new showers at a popular North Coast camp site, several state park properties received upg...

A stack of papers representing testimony against a Democratic bill to move a referendum on transportation taxes and fees from November to May rests on the desk of Sen. Christine Drazan, R-Canby. A new referendum effort aimed at the state’s replication of federal tax policy won’t meet a key deadline. (Photo by Julia Shumway/Oregon Capital Chronicle)

Federal officers shoot pepper balls at protestors at the ICE facility south of downtown Portland on Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. (Photo by Alex Baumhardt/Oregon Capital Chronicle)

Despite passing some of the nation’s first laws barring federal law enforcement agents from concealing their identities, Oregon and Washington have yet to receive the same re...