As Multnomah County faces speculation of “gross negligence” for its sudden announcement that homeless services could be axed due to a budget shortfall, the county board and Portland City Council met Wednesday to discuss a path forward.

Officials say homeless people were living inside the vacant structures and that witnesses had seen warming fires.

Makeshift stoves” used by homeless people are the likely cause of the blaze that tore through an industrial building at the former Blue Heron paper mill in Oregon City last month, fire inspectors have concluded.

Oregon authorities say the state's DMV has resumed automatic voter registrations. Gov. Tina Kotek had paused the automatic DMV registrations in October, after it was discovered that errors registered nearly 1,

The Secretary of State's Office announced Wednesday that the Oregon DMV will resume automatic voter registration after adding new protections against errors found during the last election cycle.

The Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles began automatically registering people to vote again, the state's Department of Transportation announced Wednesday.The c