PORTLAND, Ore. — It was standing room only at the Oregon Historical Society on a recent Sunday as Sarito Carroll pulled back the curtain on a long-buried piece of Oregon's colorful and controversial ...

Beyond the strange clothing (maroon is a tough color to pull off) and the particularly hazy religious tenets of the Rajneesh movement, the documentary paints a picture of the residents of Antelope and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the most bizarre periods in Oregon history began over 40 years ago in a remote part of the state still populated by more ...

This remote 4-year-old city may lose its Indian guru namesake, and there are indications it won`t survive without him. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, being held without bail in North Carolina, faces prison ...

A plan to house central Oregon's homeless in dozens of small A-frame cabins appears to be on indefinite hold, but the cabins themselves — bits of central Oregon history — are still out there. In ...

Not long ago, in the dusty deserts of Central Oregon, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh—an Indian philosophy professor turned entrepreneurial spiritual leader—bought all 64,000 acres of the Big Muddy Ranch. From ...

“My commune will become hidden, underground. It will have a façade on the outside: the weavers and the carpenters and the potters...That will be the façade. People who will come as visitors, we will ...

A scholar visited Rajneeshpuram and met the many highly accomplished men and women who became devotees of the controversial guru whose story is now the subject of the Netflix docu-series "Wild, Wild ...