Oregon Government News

A technology committee is poised to make a final recommendation for the future of Cover Oregon's troubled health insurance exchange.

A technology committee is poised to make a final recommendation for the future of Cover Oregon's troubled health insurance exchange.

After months of deliberation over what to do with Oregon's botched online health exchange, an advisory panel on Thursday recommended that the state drop the site for private policies and have Oregonians instead shop for them on the federal online marketplace.

A forklift operator at Southern Wine & Spirits in Puyallup, Wash., drives past a stack of liquor boxes in February.

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An Oregon county commission has ordered an incinerator to stop accepting boxed medical waste to generate electricity after learning the waste it's been burning may include tissue from aborted fetuses from... An Oregon county commission has ordered an incinerator to stop accepting boxed medical waste to generate electricity after learning the waste ... (more)

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Compassion and Choices has no shame. Now, they have bootstrapped assisted suicide onto the recent success of LGBT issues .

Privatization horror stories are not new, but there is something new coming out of them: pushback against reckless privatization of public property and services.

Opening arguments in the legal challenge to Oregon's ban on same-sex marriage will go on as scheduled today at the Federal Courthouse in Eugene, after the judge slated to hear those arguments declined to delay the trial to allow the National Organization for Marriage to intervene in defense of the law.

Rep. Dennis Richardson, R-Central Point, is making Cover Oregon a key issue in his campaign to unseat Gov. John Kitzhaber.

April 23 - A federal court will hear arguments today in a challenge to Oregon's ban on marriage for same-sex couples.

Tuition and fees will remain flat at Rogue Community College next year following a small allocation boost from the Oregon Legislature.

Ben West, a plaintiff in the case to overturn Oregon's ban on same-sex marriage, says he's excited and anxious and will be leaving for Eugene early Wednesday to hear arguments in the case.

An Oregon group backing a marijuana legalization initiative has received a $100,000 contribution from Drug Policy Action , a group that was a key backer of a similar legalization campaign in Washington in 2010.

An Oklahoma inmate's execution set for Tuesday was canceled following a stay order that the state Supreme Court handed down a day earlier, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections said.

Oregon Republicans have a choice in the May primary between a candidate who could give fits to U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley in November's general election, or one who's more likely to serve as a sacrificial offering to the well-funded Democratic incumbent.

Consumers Union's Best Buy Drug Program Provides Unbiased Information on Prescription Drugs Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced an additional $3.3 million grant to extend the Best Buy Drug Program, an initiative of Consumers Union that provides free, non-biased and straightforward information to help consumers make safe and effective ... (more)

A Portland woman is selling note cards that feature art work by inmates on Oregon's Death Row.

The Salem Statesman Journal says the Oregon Insurance Division has been working its way through rate increase requests.