Oregon Government News

Gov. John Kitzhaber got some extra exposure Monday after announcing his bid for a fourth term as he addressed the annual Oregon Leadership Summit at the Oregon Convention Center.

Phil and Penny Knight, pictured here in a 2011 photo at Stanford University, have already given $225 million to OHSU since 2008.

Unemployment rates are viewed with a degree of suspicion because the statistics don't include people who have stopped looking for work.

Patrick Criteser of Tillamook Creamery Association was one of three chief executives of employers from outside the Portland metropolitan area to address the morning session of the Oregon Leadership Summit.

Oregon United for Marriage , which hopes to legalize same-sex marriage in this state next year, said today its signature gatherers have eclipsed the number of signatures required to make next November's ballot.

Oregon governors are limited to two consecutive terms in office during any 12-year period, so he is allowed to run again.

First Lady Cylvia Hayes is set to lead a panel on poverty reduction at the Oregon Leadership Summit.

Just before Thanksgiving, Sen. Ron Wyden released his long-awaited plan to reform management of Western Oregon's O&C timberlands.

At a penny a gallon in 1919, Oregon became the first state to impose a tax on motor fuels, beating Uncle Sam to the punch by 13 years.

Thomas Vaughan , the longtime executive director of the Oregon Historical Society , died Friday afternoon of congestive heart failure in Portland.

Cover Oregon will have to be self-sufficient once the federal grants that are paying its bills run dry at the end of next year, but the organization is now projecting higher costs and lower revenue.

Fourteen states and the District of Columbia told the federal government they could run their own health insurance exchanges , but three people leading their states' exchanges have now left following problem-plagued rollouts of the online marketplaces.

Readers of The Oregonian's recent series on Video Lottery could be forgiven for concluding that the Oregon Lottery is an independent entity whose leaders determined on their own, with no oversight or direction from state leaders, to offer Video Lottery games.

A lawyer for the Oregon Legislature says the state insurance commissioner overstepped her authority when she allowed insurance companies to extend policies that had been canceled because they don't meet standards under the federal health care law.

Among the many interesting talks scheduled at Monday's Oregon Business Plan summit are two that health care folks may want to know about, one of which will be delivered by Oregon Health & Science University's Dr. Brian Druker .

Outside a Whole Foods store in Seattle, a cyclist rides past a car promoting a failed November ballot measure in Washington to require labeling of genetically engineered foods.

The Oregonian's Tom Hallman Jr. reports this morning that Bill Porter has died. He was a door-to-door salesman for the Watkins Company in Portland, Oregon.

Last week, the deadline came and went for Oregon's lawmakers to submit new ideas for next year's short legislative session.

Since its early settlement, Oregon's natural resources have formed the basis of its economy.

Rep. Dennis Richardson, R-Central Point, right, asked the legislature's lawyers whether it was legal for Oregon to allow insurers to extend policies that didn't meet coverage standards under Obamacare into the new year.