December 2024 - Page 2

By BEN BOTKIN/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Oregon Attorney General-elect Dan Rayfield tapped a dozen prominent Oregonians who work in areas like health care, law and labor to advise his office as it tries to defend against potential threats to Oregon policies from the incoming Trump administration. Rayfield, who takes office in January, announced the members of the Federal Oversight

By JAKE THOMAS/The Lund Report Six months after a new law set staffing minimums at Oregon hospitals, the state’s largest nurses union and its hospitals can’t agree on what it means, even as regulators sift through a pile of new complaints. Since the law’s staffing requirements took effect in June, the Oregon Nurses Association and its members have filed more than 2,400 complaints against

By APRIL ERHLICH/Oregon Public Broadcasting The federal government is suing the electric utility PacifiCorp over a 2020 wildfire in Douglas County. The Archie Creek Fire burned across more than 131,000 acres, about half of that federal land, according to the legal complaint filed Thursday. The U.S. Attorney General’s Office accuses PacifiCorp of failing to maintain its equipment or the vegetation