A registered medical marijuana grower was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison for conspiring to sell his crop illegally and for having machine guns and other illegal firearms.

A medical marijuana patient had been sleeping in a tent in his backyard for days to guard his legal marijuana plants when a storm drove him inside Sunday. Someone took the opportunity to grab his mature plant.

Drug Enforcement Agents investigated two Coos Bay businesses Tuesday morning for illegal marijuana distribution

Britain's government says an English computer hacker won't be extradited to the United States, ending his decade-long campaign to avoid trial there over allegations he broke into sensitive military and NASA computer networks.

The line between legal medical marijuana providers and illegal operations has been blurry every since the passing of the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act of 1998, and online advertising of the drug is adding to the problem.

Three men involved in a meth distribution operation were arrested Tuesday night within around three hours of each other at locations across Douglas County, the Douglas County Narcotics Team said.

A raid on a medical marijuana operation in Jackson County has left some Eugene patients without their medicine.

State Rep. Peter Buckley told the Mail Tribune newspaper he supports regulating marijuana in a manner similar to the regulation of alcohol under the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. Legalization would take the "black market" out of Oregon, he said.

Annoyed residents in a southern Oregon community are holding their noses. They say the odor from a pot patch fouled their neighborhoods for months last year — and they want City Council to do something about it.

A narcotics task force searched a medical marijuana club in Eugene and four other addresses in Lane and Douglas counties last Thursday, arresting two men on various marijuana charges.