Oregon News

Oregon's jobless rate has fallen to its lowest point in more than five years as the pace of economic expansion pushes employers to hire more help.

A truck hauling a 178-foot long, 185,000 pound steal beam crashed Tuesday, closing all but one lane of Interstate 5 in southern Oregon.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Dec. 16--As Oracle Corp. programmers try to fix problems with its work on the state's health insurance website, Cover Oregon is bringing in outside experts to make sure the company isn't adding new bugs at the same time.

Duniway Park gym owners say Oregon Athletic Club operator Sam Adams took equipment out of their gym and refuses to give it back.

Oregon Sen. Larry George, R-Sherwood, announced Tuesday that he won't seek re-election in 2014.

Big retail stores in Oregon will push to privatize state-controlled liquor sales on the ballot next year, duplicating an effort by retailers in Washington State that led to one of the most expensive political battles in history.

Protesters say 16 people were arrested in Eastern Oregon in another attempt to block a megaload of oil refinery equipment headed for western Canada.

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The megaload of oil refinery equipment making its way slowly across Eastern Oregon has arrived at John Day and is expected to be near the Idaho border on Wednesday.

Details about the arrest, first reported by Comcast SportsNet Northwest, were not immediately released by the Eugene Police Department.

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This chart shows the status of IT and other work that has to be done on the Cover Oregon website as of Dec. 16. Cover Oregon officials continued to air their frustrations with Oracle Corp. on Monday, saying they will continue to withhold payments while the software giant struggles to get the problem-plagued website up and running.

It's time, if you haven't already, to take advantage of tax breaks that expire at year's end or disappear from the tax code altogether Dec. 31. One popular and lucrative Oregon tax break comes to those who give to the Oregon Individual Development Account program.

On December 9 , news came out that Oregon United for Marriage had gathered enough signatures to qualify their initiative for marriage equality for next year's ballot.

Liquor lines the shelves at Paddy's. Oregon grocers have filed initiative petitions to privatize sales of distilled spirits.

An analysis from a state of Oregon economist finds young workers are in a bind. There are downsides to going to school and to hitting the job market.

Gov. John Kitzhaber wins major financial backing from some of the state's major timber interests.

An analysis of documents from the state shows that private timber companies in the years 2009-2011 used an increasing amount of herbicides on private forests in rural Lane County - an area that is the focus of a state and federal investigation of residents' health complaints related to the toxins.

If you've been paying attention, it won't surprise you that more people probably died than were born in Douglas County this year.

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