Oregon's aging bridge inventory, highlighted in a new report, illustrates Oregon Department of Transportation officials ...

Roads surrounding the bridge will also close for up to an hour, and a security perimeter will be in place during the implosion.

But organizers in Illinois and Oregon hope to capitalize on the current political environment. “With this polarization,” said G.H. Merritt, chair of the pro-breakaway group New Illinois.

As President Donald Trump floats grand ideas like reacquiring the Panama Canal and taking over Greenland, some rural residents of Illinois and Oregon are promoting geopolitical change of their own ...