Oregon Government News

Oregon's health exchange and insurance carriers are looking at extending deadlines to allow more people to get coverage starting Jan. 1, Cover Oregon's acting director said Thursday.

The Democratic Party of Oregon have pounced on Republican Senate candidate Monica Wehby for making remarks on a conservative talk show that suggested she didn't like the minimum wage .

The health of Oregonians ranks 13th highest in the nation, according to a new report from the United Health Foundation.

It's yet to be seen whether Oregonians will ever grow weary of John Kitzhaber as governor, but his desire to seek an unprecedented fourth term in office provides an opportunity for voters to assess just what the state can accomplish in the next several years.

Everywhere we turn these days, we're seeing restricted access to the vital diabetes medications and supplies we depend on to keep us healthy.

SALEM, Ore. , Dec. 11 -- The Oregon State Treasurer issued the following news release: Oregon's public universities will improve facilities statewide under a recent bond sale sold by the Oregon State Treasury.

A 13 member committee from the Oregon Health Authority is releasing details of how marijuana dispensaries will operate within the law.

Ichiro "George" Azumano was a rare travel agent who didn't just sell outbound plane tickets but brought foreign visitors to Oregon, a less profitable yet highly rewarding pursuit.

Programmers continue to fix bugs in Oregon's health exchange more than two months after it was supposed to start enrolling people in health coverage.

Workers process applications for Cover Oregon, the states' health exchange program, in Keizer last month.

A committee that has been meeting in Salem for months is close to coming up with a set of guidelines for medical marijuana regulation, but it's plans must still be reviewed.

Officials at the Oregon Health Authority will have to decide soon whether medical marijuana cardholders should be allowed to use the drug at dispensaries that will become legal next year under a new state law.

An advisory committee discussed that topic and others at its final meeting Wednesday.

Sometime today, goes the plan, the major figures in writing the long-delayed farm bill - the one it seems we've been talking about since the buffalo vanished from the Great Plains - are supposed to get together to reach a final deal.

Oregon State Treasurer Ted Wheeler is proud his agency got a low 4.25 percent interest rate when it sold a bunch of state bonds recently -- including $50 million for a University of Oregon student rec center expansion and $41 million to redo the UO student union.

A newly circulated state survey has offered the latest sign that Oregonians are thinking about transportation in a fundamentally different way than they used to.

On December 10th of last year, Jenna Passalacqua wasn't feeling the Christmas spirit.

I've voted for Democrats going back to the days of St. Ronnie the Blessed. I was even a precinct chair for a while .

The acting chief of Oregon's health exchange apologized Tuesday for its lackluster performance under Obamacare and said the state will not have a high-functioning website until at least January, as officials plow through paper applications to get residents covered in time for the new year .

Seasonally adjusted data from the Oregon Employment Department shows the number of people in the labor force is on a downward path.