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Paul Tibbets, who piloted the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb, has died at age 92. On Aug. 6, 1945, Tibbets' B-29 dropped the nearly five-ton bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Tibbets always insisted that he did not have regrets.

The Port of Portland and the operator of the container facility at Terminal 6 have agreed to end their 25-year lease agreement.

We've come a long way from a 6-foot-tall computer. But the internet hasn't solved everything it promised to. This week we visit the Computer History Museum in Mountain View to muse on how the internet has changed our lives.

As Oregon lawmakers grapple with a $1.6 billion dollar budget shortfall, even some legislative leaders are having trouble gaining traction for their priorities.

A Colorado woman gave her daughter, 6, an old phone to play with. KDVR reports a 911 dispatcher heard a child's voice on the line. Officers arrived to find a stuffed bunny needing medical attention.

Of the more than 13.6 million homes in the state, about a third are in or near areas vulnerable to wildfire, and many homeowners are having trouble finding or keeping their fire insurance.

Municipalities are increasingly going to the bond market to pay their court settlement costs.

The beloved Oregon author Beverly Cleary died last week at the age of 104. OPB producer Katrina Sarson visited Cleary at her home on the California coast 6 years ago for an interview. We play an excerpt from that interview today.

More than 6,000 people in California scheduled to lose their permit to live in the U.S. can remain in the country, for now. That’s after the Trump administration agreed Tuesday to halt its plan to end Temporary Protected Status for people from Honduras and Nepal. Reporter: Farida Jhabvala-Romero

The days of plastic straws are drawing shorter. Marriott International on Wednesday became the latest big company to announce it will stop using plastic straws, saying it would remove them from its more than 6,500 properties by next July. The giant hotel chain said it will stop offering plastic stirrers, too. It said the environmentally … Continue reading Marriott Follows Starbucks In Dropping Plastic Straws →