This will be a long, difficult summer in the Klamath Basin. A drought disaster is coming, and no amount of well-meaning collaboration can substitute for water. But with better relationships, deeper respect and more leadership, there won't be the fear, suspicion and anger that opened such deep cracks in the Klamath Basin in 2001. Now if it would only rain some more. The Oregonian Editorial Board http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/oliveoregedb/index.html

Why the Police Department should be keeping files on innocent people is a question with no legitimate answer.

Farmers, researchers and entomologists are racing to battle a destructive new fruit fly that first appeared in Oregon last summer and quickly wiped out much of the late season peach and berry crops. Eric Mortenson, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/emortens/index.html

On the heels of President Obama's controversial meeting with the Dalai Lama last month and ahead of an upcoming visit by local emissaries to Portland's sister city of Suzhou in eastern China, the proclamation has local business leaders fretting over fallout. Janie Har, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/jhar/index.html

On the heels of President Obama's controversial meeting with the Dalai Lama last month and ahead of an upcoming visit by local emissaries to Portland's sister city of Suzhou in eastern China, the proclamation has local business leaders fretting over fallout. Janie Har, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/jhar/index.html

I was disappointed in the intellectual dishonesty of Merrill McPeak's arguments for maintaining the military's morally and pragmatically unsupportable "don't ask, don't tell" policy toward homosexual service members. Letters to the editor http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/oliveoreglet/index.html

An accounting gimmick called Repo 105 provided financial relief for Lehman Brothers in the months before its spectacular collapse, an autopsy of the once-venerable Wall Street house has found. The question now is whether the trickery spells legal jeopardy for executives of Lehman or its auditors Ernst & Young. The Associated Press http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/oliveassocpr/index.html

The event, which has a $10 suggested donation, will be held in the lounge section of the M&M Restaurant & Lounge, 137 North Main Avenue, from 1 to 10 p.m. Michael Russell, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/mrussell/index.html

They sneak onto private forestland at night with rakes and scratch up the ground, digging for the musty mushrooms that sell for up to $200 a pound. Lynne Terry, The Oregonian http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/lterry/index.html

Thousands of taxi drivers overcharged riders more than $8 million by switching the meter to double the rate, according to the Taxi and Limousine Commission.

No. 1 Jefferson 83, No. 4 Silverton 57: Terrence Jones scored 23 points and Antoine Hosley added 21 as the Democrats of North Portland rolled past the Foxes. Jefferson will go for its third consecutive championship tonight. Hosley made...

The arrest of a New Jersey man in Yemen is the latest in a string of cases involving radicalized American Muslims.

A federal commission has determined that the Department of Education discriminated against the principal of an Arabic-language public school in Brooklyn.

The army has gained the upper hand, but insurgents in South Waziristan continue to make their presence known.

Even as a $137 million stadium to be used for four World Cup games is rising, poverty remains prevalent nearby.

God, life and family get little mention in the party’s statements, with the focus instead on fiscal responsibility.