By DIRK VANDERHART/Oregon Public Broadcasting SALEM — A Marion County judge has stalled a controversial order by Gov. Tina Kotek that requires use of union labor in many state construction projects. […]
By TED SICKINGER/The Oregonian/OregonLive Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders aimed at ramping up logging on federal lands. The directives prompted polar and predictable reactions from timber industry […]
By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle The nation’s highest court declined to hear a petition that would have revived a landmark climate change lawsuit against the federal government, led by young […]
By KRISTIAN FODEN-VENCIL/Oregon Public Broadcasting It’s morning in a hunting blind at the Santiam Valley Ranch, a private duck hunting club near Turner, just south of Salem. It’s cold and wet. […]
By LAUREN DAKE/Oregon Public Broadcasting SALEM — Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek wants to make it easier for housing developers to identify and build on the more than 3,500 acres of […]
By DIRK VANDERHART/Oregon Public Broadcasting SALEM — Striking workers in Oregon are a step closer to being eligible for weekly unemployment checks, after a tight vote in the state Senate […]
By ASHLEY MURRAY/States News Service WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has begun the process of reinstating tens of thousands of fired federal workers, though most are just being placed on […]
By JEFF MANNING/The Oregon Journalism Project Oregon Department of Forestry investigators have determined that the 2020 Santiam Canyon fire was not caused by downed power lines as plaintiffs’ attorneys have […]
By DIRK VANDERHART/Oregon Public Broadcasting SALEM — Oregon’s top budget writers attempted to answer an impossible question Wednesday. In unveiling a high-level spending framework, the co-chairs of the Legislature’s budget […]
By DIRK VANDERHART/Oregon Public Broadcasting SALEM — Oregon cities hoping to win new authority to restrict homeless camps are rushing to convince lawmakers to take their request seriously — and […]
