SALEM — Oregon Department of Agriculture faces a potential staffing shortage that could impact the scope of services the department provides to the state's farming community.
SALEM — Two of Oregon’s most influential unions have bargained with the state to allow employees of the state executive branch more time to comply with Gov. Kate Brown’s mandate, which require…
SALEM — Oregon is relaxing requirements to become a substitute school teacher in the face of a widespread shortage stretching educators thin.
Workers value having a job they can be proud of, that’s close to home with flexible hours and that has health insurance, according to a survey by the Oregon Values and Beliefs Center.
Oregonians will get 17% of their 2020 Oregon income taxes back as a kicker credit when they file their 2021 taxes next year, the Oregon Department of Revenue announced Tuesday.
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KENNEWICK, Wash. — Starting this spring, the Environmental Protection Agency will require Snake River dam operators to limit hot water pollution to help salmon survive. The change comes after …
Former Oregon Secretary of State Bev Clarno and three other Oregon Republicans have filed a challenge to new congressional districts recently passed by state lawmakers, arguing the plan amount…
SALEM — State officials have scheduled six sessions, starting Thursday, Oct. 14, for the public and businesses to weigh in on a rule allowing workers to keep some unemployment benefits even if…
The Redmond School Board will hire a Portland-based attorney to oppose state mask and vaccination mandates that have been leveled on K-12 schools to slow the spread of COVID-19.
SALEM — A group of 25 health care workers, firefighters and paramedics from across Oregon lost a round last week when the Oregon Court of Appeals refused to intervene to stop a state mandate r…
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SALEM — While half of Oregonians say the state is headed in the wrong direction, views on the state's economy have improved in recent months.
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SALEM — Half of Oregon is officially free of fire season, while the state’s eastern and southern regions need significantly more rain before they’re in the clear, experts say.
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SALEM — A recovery from the record-breaking spike in COVID-19 cases has been pushed from Halloween to Christmas, according to an Oregon Health & Science University forecast released last week.
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SALEM — Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum sued two Oregon counties Friday, Oct. 1, to stop their efforts to get around Oregon’s new gun laws.
PORTLAND — Portland firefighters soon will have access to bulletproof vests while on the job.
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SALEM — A broken handshake agreement could have repercussions in the future, as leaders in both parties blame the other.
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SALEM — Oregon regulators have fielded eight complaints from people who bought CBD drops apparently tainted by THC, the psychoactive ingredient in recreational marijuana.
SALEM — Landlords across Oregon may jack up rents as much as 9.9% in 2022, state officials say.
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SALEM — Oregon will spend $23.6 million on hazard payments of up to $1,550 for state employees who were required to work in-person during the first 16 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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SALEM — A political showdown in the House over political redistricting was put on hold for at least a day amid reported COVID-19 cases traced to the session Monday, Sept. 20, in the Capitol.
Oregon's record wave of COVID-19 cases appears to have crested, but the long recovery will likely stretch into the winter holiday season.
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Thirty-eight million Americans lived in food-insecure households last year, a 9% increase over the 2019 level of 35 million, according to the USDA.
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SALEM — Leaders of the Oregon School Boards Association recently admonished school board members across the state to uphold their oaths of office and follow all laws, even those they disagree with.
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SALEM — State Sen. Lynn Findley, R-Vale, was the second Senate Republican targeted for recall because he showed up to oppose a gun-control bill. Detractors wanted Findley to walk away from the…
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PORTLAND — With COVID-19 cases surging in Idaho’s panhandle and hospitals there exceeding capacity, the state of Idaho recently activated its crisis standards of care.
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SALEM — With a deadline to approve new political maps fast approaching, Oregon lawmakers will convene in Salem on Monday, Sept. 20, to try to find agreement on new legislative and congressiona…
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SALEM — The official political opening day in Oregon was Thursday, Sept. 9.
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A video diaspora of lawmakers, an alphabet soup of proposals, echoing audio, dead air and a buzzer that cut off testimony at three minutes marked the first day of legislative hearings on 2022 …
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SALEM — Schools should cancel or curtail some extracurricular activities to help Oregon maintain what appears to be the beginning of a decline from record high numbers of COVID-19 infections, …
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SALEM — Oregon’s Office of Emergency Management is calling on the state’s residents to think critically about how they’re preparing for the next big crisis event.
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SALEM — Nearly 4 in 5 coronavirus deaths in Oregon during the first four weeks of August were among unvaccinated or partially vaccinated individuals, according to new data released by the Oreg…
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SALEM — Oregon’s COVID-19 hospitalizations could peak over the course of next week — and possibly, begin to decline, according to a new model out of Oregon Health and Sciences University. But …
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SALEM — Ready or not, Oregon, the 2022 election season is here.
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SALEM — Legislative leaders on Friday released competing plans for new political districts to be used beginning with the 2022 election.
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SALEM — Humankind has little chance of solving the climate crisis and the growing frequency of wildfires. That’s the majority opinion of Oregonians recently polled in a survey conducted by the…
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Oregon, which was already on track to pay up to $1,100 to nearly all low-income and some not-low-income children to help them afford food, will pay those children and some others an additional $389.
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ADRIAN — Kevin Purnell was fired Monday, Aug. 30, as superintendent of the Adrian School District just one week after students returned to school.
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As a former college basketball player, Ron Wyden knows all about shot clocks.
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SALEM — Oregon health officials have seen an increase in children with COVID-19 cases severe enough to require hospitalization and said it mirrors a national trend. State health officials said…
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SALEM — The Oregon House broke its previous record for the number of women representatives, after the swearing-in of Rep. Christine Goodwin Wednesday, Aug. 25, brought the total number to 33 o…
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BEND — The death toll from COVID-19 in Oregon is climbing so rapidly in some counties that the state has organized delivery of one refrigerated truck to hold the bodies and is sending a second…
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PORTLAND — Conspiracy theories about a parasite drug are making people sick in Oregon, according to Oregon Health & Science University.
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Oregon taxpayers will get a record $1.9 billion off their personal income taxes in 2022 as a result of tax collections exceeding projections in 2019.
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The COVID-19 spike that began in July should peak soon after Labor Day and begin a two-month decline in infections, hospitalizations and deaths, according to a new state forecast.
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SALEM — Millions of U.S. households, including more than 600,000 Oregon families, received payments last month through an expansion of the federal child tax credit.
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SALEM — The Oregon Department of Corrections has been ground zero for some of the largest outbreaks of COVID-19 across the state throughout the duration of the pandemic.
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SALEM — Last year, as they worked to close an expected hole COVID-19 had created in the state’s budget, Oregon lawmakers bristled at Gov. Kate Brown’s decision to veto some of their decisions.
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SALEM — Oregon has now joined the ranks of states who’ve signed on to a $26 billion legal settlement with Johnson & Johnson and three drug distributors over the companies’ alleged roles in…
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SALEM — Gov. Kate Brown has expanded a mandatory mask order to include large outdoor gatherings as well well as indoor gatherings.
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SALEM — Oregonians with compromised immune systems appear to be at the front of the line to receive booster shots against COVID-19 as part of a nationwide push to prolong immunity in the battl…
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Facing a sharp surge in COVID-19 infections driven by the delta variant, Gov. Kate Brown Thursday ordered all K-12 educators, school staff and volunteers to be vaccinated, along with health ca…
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SALEM — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown wrote a letter to school superintendents and board members throughout the state Monday, Aug. 16, standing by her decision to require face coverings in K-12 class…
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GEORGE, Wash. — More than 160 cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed among people who attended the Watershed Music Festival at the Gorge Amphitheatre, the Grant County Health District sa…
