Category OREGON NEWS
Oregon cities push for infrastructure funding, more leeway to remove homeless camps
Oregon’s cities will push the state Legislature to give them more money for roads, water and sewers, more power to remove homeless camps and more flexibility to spend hotel tax revenue on basic services.
Kotek’s gift to trade unions contradicts her own agency’s analysis
The Oregon Department of Transportation found that a new requirement to negotiate labor contracts for state highways will be costly and disproportionately hit rural Oregon.
Rural rampage: Outdoorsman holds police at bay, firing hundreds of rounds in eastern Oregon community
AROUND OREGON: For hours, an experienced marksman terrified Owyhee Junction for hours, firing hundreds of rounds. The shooting prompted one of the largest police responses in eastern Oregon in recent history.
Siletz Tribe purchases 2,000 acres in southern Oregon with significant Native history
The Siletz tribe’s focus will be restoration, preservation and cultural uses like first foods for the 2,000-acre site at the base of Table Rocks in Southern Oregon.
Oregon advocates seek state food aid for immigrants excluded by feds
Senate Bill 611 would extend food benefits to ineligible immigrants under federal rules who under 26 or 55 and older.
Trump spending freeze memo that provoked confusion, chaos rescinded
A federal spending freeze that caused widespread confusion among Oregon and Salem agencies has been revoked.
Oregon needs to build 29,500 more homes each year, chief economist says
Housing is most needed in the Willamette Valley and Portland area, Oregon's chief economist told lawmakers.
Oregon officials scrambling to respond to Trump order freezing many federal funds
State programs including the Oregon Health Plan rely on federal money to operate.
Feds cancel research meetings, raising fears about jobs, hundreds of millions to Oregon
The National Institutes of Health, a big funder of Oregon research studies, suddenly cancelled key funding meetings.