Oregon Government News

This state's picture-perfect vistas of expansive forests, cliff-lined beaches and hipster cities mask a painfully slow recovery from a recession that has pushed unemployment to its highest rate in 30 years.

Does anyone remember that old song, 'What a Difference a Day Makes?' Yes, a day can make a lot of... Fans outraged that a sequel to a beloved holiday film is in the works are no longer out in the cold.

Slater Smith, and his fellow members of the Portland band, The Weather Machine, working on the music video for "Back O'er Oregon," which was filmed in all 185 Oregon State Parks.

On Sept. 30, Police Chief Mike Reese stood before TV cameras and journalists to release troubling new findings about how often people commit suicide in Portland.

Prison staff found Larry Hurst alone in his cell at the Two Rivers Correctional Institution around 10 p.m. Sunday.

Jay Fewel , who helped guide Oregon's state Treasury into private equity investments, is retiring, a Treasury spokesperson told peHUB.

List highlights nonprofits that spend less than 30% of the funds they raise on charitable services or programs they claim to support.

Doctors who agree to work in Oregon locations where there's a health professional shortage can receive as much as $175,000 in medical school loan repayment, the Oregon Health Authority announced today.

In the latest tax reform plan floated in Salem , the inclusion of a sales tax is not the problem.

Greg Nokes worked as a print journalist for 43 years at the Associated Press and The Oregonian before turning to Northwest history.

Oregonians show up Nov. 23 to get help with health insurance enrollment at Cover Oregon's application fair at the Doubletree in Portland.

One of the great things about working at a newspaper is the library. There is a room downstairs at the Statesman Journal where we can look up every newspaper we've ever created on microfilm, going back to about 1925.

Oregon Parks and Recreation Department director Tim Wood announced his retirement Monday morning.

Just listening to the radio about what a disaster the Oregon obamacare website has been.

Cover Oregon Executive Director Rocky King is taking a medical leave of absence and Oregon Health Authority Director Bruce Goldberg will take over on an interim basis.

Four months into his new job as president of Medgar Evers College in New York City, Rudy Crew sat down with the New York Times for a wide-ranging interview.

By Sho Dozono True-to-life bridge builders should be honored with a bridge named for them.

During his November 9th Bar Mitzvah at Portland's Congregation Beth Israel, 13-year-old Duncan McAlpine Sennett used his d'var Torah reading of Genesis 29 to discuss the changing definition of "traditional marriage" and promote marriage equality nationwide.

It is time to reinvest in innovation and higher education. The financial ropes of sequestration that constrained federal funding for research and education have bound our economy long enough.

Oregonians show up Nov. 23 to get help with health insurance enrollment at Cover Oregon's application fair at the Doubletree in Portland.