By JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries this fall settled a lawsuit from a second former employee who alleged racial hostility under then-commissioner […]
Gov. Tina Kotek speaks Monday with Derek Thompson, a staff writer for The Atlantic, about housing in Portland. BY JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle PORTLAND – Gov. Tina Kotek and […]
By AIMEE GREEN/The Oregonian/OregonLive World-renowned fiddler Alasdair Fraser’s massive social media campaign paid off – he’s gotten back his violin and bows after a thief stole them from his […]
By PAM RADTKE/Floodlight A proposal that would allow industries to permanently stash climate-polluting carbon dioxide beneath U.S. Forest Service land puts those habitats and the people in or near them […]
By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle To avoid major lawsuits under the federal Endangered Species Act, state and federal agencies have crafted a plan to reduce the amount of timber logged […]
By SAGE VAN WING/Oregon Public Broadcasting In November, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed shooting over 400,000 barred owls over the next 30 years in order to save endangered […]
By LYNNE TERRY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Oregonians who packed a legislative hearing on the state’s addiction crisis and flooded the Legislature with passionate testimony have vastly different viewpoints, but […]
By JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle The national advocacy group trying to block former President Donald Trump from appearing on primary ballots filed a lawsuit with the Oregon Supreme Court on […]
By RYAN HASS/Oregon Public Broadcasting PacifiCorp, the parent company of the Oregon electric utility Pacific Power, will pay out $299 million to settle lawsuits related to a 2020 wildfire in […]
By JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Oregon’s top elected officials pledged to spend millions of dollars on winter road maintenance after dire warnings from the state Department of Transportation […]
