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With just a few months to go before programs would begin, Oregon’s Legislature is once again scrambling to pass funding for summer school. A proposal ...
A bill to get the Oregon State Treasury to pause new pension investments in private assets and equity funds that are invested in fossil fuel ...
Oregon lawmakers on Tuesday tweaked a bill intended to increase fire mitigation to ensure it does not also offer utilities immunity from liability in lawsuits ...
Oregon and nine other states recently achieved a collective goal of shifting new car buyers toward electric rather than gas-powered vehicles in an effort to ...
More than 12 million Americans who took out loans from the U.S. Department of Education to attend college are now stuck in limbo about whether ...
Efforts to get harmful “forever chemicals” out of firefighting foam used in Oregon are closer to being realized. The state Senate voted nearly unanimously Tuesday ...
Lawmakers got a three-hour crash course this week on fixes that are needed to Oregon’s education funding formula to improve student learning and direct money ...
A bill that would establish minimum wildfire prevention standards for electric utilities in exchange for an annual certificate from the Oregon Public Utility Commission would ...
Some Oregon farmworkers are earning higher hourly wages but taking home less money annually than they did before the state’s agricultural overtime law passed in ...
A bipartisan group of lawmakers from the West are joining forces to persuade Congress to reauthorize a 24-year-old bill that has sent billions to states ...