Voters will decide measures including a livability levy in Salem, a $140 million community college bond, and four Salem-Keizer school board seats.

Undocumented students in the two states can’t participate in federal programs that support underserved students anymore, depriving them of valuable services.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humility and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives over climate change and critiques ...

The death of a pope starts a centuries-old ritual involving sacred oaths by the cardinals electing a successor, the piercing ...

If the Arizona Democratic Party wants to keep or expand its power in 2027, it better get its house in order now.

When the newly elected Pope Francis returned to the front desk of his hotel in Rome to personally settle his bill a day after being introduced to cheering crowds in St. Peter’s Square in 2013, it was ...

Bells tolled in churches from his native Argentina to the Philippines and across Rome as news spread around the world.

Pope Francis signaled a very different tone for the papacy, stressing humility over hubris for a Catholic Church beset by scandal and accusations of indifference.

After his election, the Argentinian became the “first pope from the Americas, the first Jesuit, the 266th pope in the history of the Catholic Church, and the 265th successor of ...

By Fredreka Schouten, David Wright and Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee collected a staggering $239 million for the festivities surrounding his swearing-in ...

Like his predecessors, Pope Francis was selected using an age-old method — a system known as the Papal conclave.