Quinton Smith

By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle Schools in 30 of Oregon’s 36 counties — and schools in other Western states — will receive less federal funding in 2025 after the U.S. House of Representatives failed to reauthorize a 24-year-old bill that typically pays up to $80 million a year for schools and roads in Oregon along with wildfire prevention and conservation work.

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