AP Staff

Laine sang lead vocals on one of the 1960s biggest hits, "Go Now," with his band the Moody Blues. Laine would go on to write one of the best selling songs in British history, 1977's "Mull of Kintyre."

In Oregon, a record $5.6 billion in revenue surplus will be returned to its taxpayers in the form of an income tax credit next year.

A federal judge set an Oct. 17 trial date for an Oregon man accused of posing as an undercover police officer, kidnapping a woman in Seattle and locking her in a cinder block cell until she bloodied her hands breaking the door to escape.

A northern California tribe is pressing the federal government to stop water deliveries for farming in southern Oregon and northern California unless a federal agency can show it’s met all legal requirements for endangered species, including salmon and killer whales.

With respect to human-induced climate change, meteorologists say it’s challenging to nail down what part it is playing in the West Coast’s peculiar winter season.

Police have arrested a man after a chaotic incident involving a stolen boat, a daring Coast Guard rescue, a dead fish, and the Astoria, Oregon, home featured in the classic 1985 film, “The Goonies.”