SALEM — A multifaceted gun control bill pushed by Oregon Democrats may be dead this session, but advocates and opponents alike are confident it will return.
Last year, Don Baglien’s 19-year-old son experienced a psychotic break. It was a Sunday afternoon. He picked up the family picnic and threw it over the fence. Then he started turning on every …
SALEM — Oregon’s carbon cap and trade proposal passed out of its legislative committee on a party-line vote Friday, setting it up as the next landmark piece of legislation to pass in the 2019 …
A proposal in the Oregon Legislature could affect what the state’s neighborhoods look like for decades to come.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is urging the federal government not to lift Endangered Species Act protections for wolves, contradicting an earlier position taken by state wildlife regulators.
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SALEM — A day after state economists revealed the largest “kicker” tax rebate in Oregon’s history might be flowing back to taxpayers next year, House Speaker Tina Kotek, D-Portland, is introdu…
SALEM — Oregonians are in line for a big personal income tax credit, in the form of Oregon’s unique “kicker” rebate, when they file their taxes in 2020.
A bill directing Oregon agencies to sidestep federal environmental rollbacks has cleared the Legislature, and is headed to the desk of Gov. Kate Brown.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown sacrificed a package of gun control legislation and a bill tightening vaccination requirements in order to pass an education funding bill this week. But lawmakers aren’t…
SALEM — Thousands of Oregon public workers could see smaller retirement pots if lawmakers pass a slate of changes to the state’s retirement plan.
Oregon’s total nonfarm payroll employment rose in April, continuing a recent surge.
BURNS — Three environmental groups are suing to block the renewal of a federal grazing permit for Dwight and Steven Hammond, the Eastern Oregon ranchers whose imprisonment inspired the 2016 oc…
SALEM — Four Oregon senators leading the charge to inject new lifeblood into the state’s troubled education system said in their combined 88 years in the Legislature, the passage of the Studen…
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife supports removing endangered species protections for gray wolves in the Lower 48 states.
SALEM — Senate Republicans appear to have won significant concessions as Democrats have agreed to abandon their central gun control proposal and drop a controversial bill modifying vaccination…
Oregon legislative leaders on Friday released their own plan for grappling with the financially troubled pension system for the state’s public employees — and it has some key differences from …
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SALEM — Democrats unveiled a plan to rein in Oregon’s rising pension costs in an attempt to coax protesting Republicans back to the state Capitol.
SALEM — There aren’t many Republicans in the Oregon Senate, but on Tuesday, there weren’t any at all.
SALEM — Lacy Ramirez Gruss did vocal exercises, stretched, pulled her hair back, and slipped on some comfortable shoes.
SALEM — A $1 billion-per-year tax plan to boost education cleared a major procedural hurdle in the Capitol on Monday.
SALEM — Oregon inmates are getting older, and lawmakers are trying to prepare for the extra care they may require.
Senators would give juveniles charged with crimes a second chance to avoid treatment as adults under a reform to Measure 11 passed by the Senate Tuesday on the slimmest of margins.
For months, the conversation around Oregon’s proposed carbon program has revolved around how it will impact industrial polluters.
SALEM — Expectant mothers, marijuana users and caregivers for ailing relatives could all benefit from worker protections that legislators are scrambling to write into law this year.
SALEM — Two elements make budgeting a painful math exercise for the Umatilla School District: employee health benefits and retirement benefits.
A debate about progressive elections reform on the Senate floor was hijacked Tuesday when Sen. Dennis Linthicum, R-Klamath Falls, brought up the political treatment of slaves in the 1700s.
A Portland Public Schools official who in January accused Secretary of State Dennis Richardson of issuing an unfair audit of the district is now helping run the office he left behind.
SALEM — Oregon took a step toward moving to year-round daylight saving time on Thursday, as the state Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation that could stop the changing of the clocks for mo…
SALEM — When state Rep. Rachel Prusak was 16, she was dating a boy who she says became controlling and aggressive.
SALEM — Two constitutional amendments next year could bring the most dramatic changes in a generation to how Oregon conducts its elections.
SALEM — Oregon’s legislators are halfway around their political track in Salem and major reforms in taxation, environment and education remain in the works. They now have about 90 days to fini…
Juan Carlos Gonzalez was a high school junior from Forest Grove when he encountered President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C., through the Boys Nation leadership program.
Environmentalists have failed to convince a federal judge that a 2,000-acre thinning project in Northeast Oregon’s Wallowa-Whitman National Forest violated environmental law.
The state director for USDA Wildlife Services in Oregon said the agency has removed M-44 cyanide poison traps from “areas of immediate concern” following the unintended poisoning of a wolf in …
SALEM — A USDA official, Alexis Taylor, has been nominated to head the Oregon Department of Agriculture, replacing former director Katy Coba.
Harney County rancher Travis Williams says he’s “riding the fence” on a recent anti-government proposal to stop paying fees for grazing on public lands.
PORTLAND — Oregon farm regulators plan to spray more than 8,000 acres in Portland next spring to prevent the establishment of the Asian gypsy moth, a destructive pest found in the area this year.
Divers equipped with suction hoses began this week removing flowering rush from sites on the Columbia River where the irrigation canal-clogging weed was discovered last year.
Federal standards for the welfare of egg-laying hens suffered a defeat when they failed to make it into the farm bill legislation voted out of the agriculture committees in the U.S. House and …
TUMWATER, Wash. -- Ken and Bonnie Miller's tree farm is well off the beaten track, but plenty of folks have found their way to their home in the woods. Over the past 20 years, the Millers have…
BOISE -- A new Idaho law that takes effect July 1 aims to prevent people from using drones to spy on farmers and ranchers. A bill that has been signed into law by Gov. Butch Otter restricts pe…
Members of Oregonians for Immigration Reform gathered on the steps of the Capitol May 21 to distribute packets for a referendum to stop implementation of a bill allowing undocumented immigrant…
A crowd of Army National Guard troops, city leaders and media watched as the 14-foot-long drone — or unmanned aerial vehicle — revved for several minutes on a slingshot-like platform before fl…
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COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) -- As logging slows, seven jobs will be cut from the state forestry office in Coos Bay.
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