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"It is a great day for , and for the whole state, when we can celebrate the reopening of a family-owned business that provides family-wage jobs for its employees," said .

Vermont's Democratic Attorney General Bill Sorrell recently came out swinging in a lawsuit against one of the biggest so called 'patent trolls,' or entities that exist for the purpose of licensing patents in order to sue companies for alleged infringement of those patents.

The Columbia River Crossing Project has officially been scrapped. Governor John Kitzhaber gave lawmakers a deadline to either pass legislation on an Oregon lead project or let it go.

One of two buildings planned by Oregon Health & Science University to hold the Knight Cancer Institute would be constructed in the South Waterfront District if fundraising goals were reached.

The Oregon Legislature is pushing to finish its work and adjourn on Friday. Left on the agenda is a package of bills to rebalance the budget and approve construction projects around the state, including cancer research facilities at Oregon Health & Science University.

A Southern Oregon mill that shut down a year ago has secured a $5 million government funding deal to restart operations.

On Feb. 27, when the House Committee on Rules voted 8-0 to send House Bill 4078 to the full House with a "Do Pass" recommendation, the mood in the hearing room at the state capitol building was almost giddy.

With no advance notice, the Medford City Council gave initial approval Thursday to a moratorium that would snuff out any immediate efforts to open medical marijuana dispensaries in the city.

Oregon schools will have a chance to keep their Native American mascots under a bill Gov. John Kitzhaber's signed into law Thursday.

As Oregon's legislative session winds down, lawmakers' final days in Salem could spell the final days of the Columbia River Crossing.

The Salem girl's case raises questions after a 2009 investigation by The Oregonian detailed the life and death of Adrianna Romero Cram.

Congress's investigative arm said Wednesday it will audit Oregon's broken healthcare exchange site, which has yet to enroll even one person despite spending $304 million in federal funds.

Sherwood Mayor Bill Middleton called the city council's nomination of Matt Langer as liaison to the Chamber of Commerce last week, while Middleton was gone, "back door politics."

The New Yorker features a podcast on our so-called "technological evolution." The podcast explores provocative questions such as: "Does our dependence on gadgets cause 'biological atrophy'? Can technological tools make our lives too convenient? And how should we navigate these questions when introducing gadgets to our kids?" Also for The New ... (more)

Gov. John Kitzhaber has appointed Senior Deputy District Attorney Beth Roberts to the Washington County Circuit Court , the governor's office announced Wednesday.

A House bill addressing problems with the Cover Oregon health insurance exchange's rollout passed the Oregon House on Tuesday with a 55-3 vote.

"The GAO will take an independent look into what went wrong," U.S. Rep. Greg Walden , who requested the investigation, said in a news release.

A deal to share scarce water between ranchers and the Klamath Tribes has cleared another hurdle on its way toward becoming part of a bill in Congress to overcome a century of fighting over water in the Klamath Basin.

Though Save Helvetia emerged with a decisive win from the legislative land-use grand bargain -- preserving a swath of Helvetia farmland as rural reserves -- the group is calling for greater citizen involvement in growth planning.

In today's paper, we see that a couple of fights that the business community has been girding for are not going to be fought after all.