Oregon Government News

Selma native Kristy Lee Cook will perform at the annual Veterans Day Ceremony at the Oregon Fallen War Heroes Memorial in Central Point.

Oregon Anti-Crime Alliance spokeswoman Tara Lawrence said Friday that courts and district attorneys around Oregon are being saddled with extra costs and workload from having to conduct thousands of resentencing reviews.

A new public opinion study published in the American Political Science Review ranks Oregon 13th nationwide in support for same sex marriage rights, with about 45 percent of Oregonians supporting the cause.

Oregon corrections officers have voted down a tentative contract with the state, balking at proposed pay cuts tied to unpaid furlough days, union officials said Wednesday.

The right of Oregonians to use marijuana for medical reasons and also to obtain concealed handgun permits is being challenged by local sheriffs who say federal law prevents those people from packing heat.

Last night's election results in Maine and Washington left Basic Rights Oregon executive director Jeana Frazzini stressing this morning that she's a "half-glass-full" kind of person.

The state of Oregon has shut down a boarding school for troubled teens in Central Oregon after allegedly finding a pattern of child abuse and neglect of its students, forcing parents around the country to scramble to bring home their children.

Oregon's Department of Energy has issued new rules aimed at curbing a state program that grants lucrative tax credits for wind, solar and other renewable power plants.

More than 10,000 children have been added to the state health plan under a new law aimed at expanding health insurance coverage to nearly every child in Oregon, officials said Tuesday.

Some people who provide child care so parents in low-income families can go to work say new precautions by an Oregon state agency are delaying their payments.

Oregon has seen a boom in wind energy projects, such as this one in the Columbia River Gorge not far from Hood River.

MADISON - Responding to a state lawmaker's complaints about inmates receiving swine flu vaccine while other citizens wait, state Department of Corrections officials said most of the vaccine was going to staff, not inmates.

The state Department of Corrections says its inmates aren't getting better access to swine-flu vaccine than are others citizens.

Oregon's senators backed a preliminary Senate plan released Monday that would give states the option to go with a public health care program as part of a massive medical overhaul.

Statins, frequently used to cut cholesterol levels, may also help prevent death from severe flu, a new study suggests.

A new study by Oregon State University researchers shows that those in poverty in rural Oregon often know what kinds of foods they should be eating, but face tough choices between eating well and spending less money for meals.

A federal judge Tuesday sentenced a Maryland businessman to three months in prison for his role in Oregon's prison food bribery scandal, but saved some of the harshest language for the person missing from the courtroom - fugitive Fred Monem.

The FBI won't reveal where the raids occured, because more arrests may happen, but eight pimps, 29 adult prostitutes and one john were arrested.

It's not just all politics that's local. So is all medicine, and all health care reform.

He's zipping - on a Segway. Using the personal transporter is one way the Democratic politician deals with the effects of multiple sclerosis .