There’s no denying lawmakers face plenty of challenges: crises in housing, public defense, mental health care; roads and bridges hurting for attention; an increasing inability to pay for worsening ...

Recently, a neighbor who supported the campaign to close the research center told me that early safety studies should be ...

Oregon lawmakers are on track to repeal the state's wildfire hazard map after a Senate committee unanimously approved Senate Bill 83. The map, created after the 2020 ...

Lawmakers from both parties support scrapping Oregon's wildfire hazard map four years after devastating fires, saying it failed to accurately assess risk.

Oregon’s largest credit union will soon move into a 17,000-square-foot space in downtown Portland. OnPoint Community Credit Union has signed a lease at 707 S.W. Washington St., according to a news ...

Senate Bill 1154, a proposal by Gov. Tina Kotek, would give state agencies more authority to intervene earlier in Oregon’s ...

Gov. Tina Kotek’s proposal to give state agencies more authority to intervene earlier in Oregon’s contaminated groundwater ...

The Trump administration's restructuring of the federal bureaucracy by cutting funds and axing entire departments is reverberating across Portland and the state. Why it matters: The cuts threaten ...

A legislative hearing earlier this year highlighted that a child welfare watchdog doesn't have a ton of independence.

Gov. Tina Kotek has joined with hospitals, law enforcement and behavioral health advocates to back a legislative push to make ...

The U.S. Department of Education is rescinding nearly $3.5 million in funds to improve Oregon students’ literacy and math skills.

The executive director of one of Oregon’s largest unions says Gov. Tina Kotek caught him and other labor leaders by surprise ...