John Kitzhaber News

Jack Roberts, the former state labor commissioner, says he had no plans to seek the Oregon Lottery director job until the governor offered it to him.

Gov. John Kitzhaber joined hundreds of Coordinated Care Organization representatives today in sharing success stories and outlining the challenges ahead in reducing costs, while delivering better quality care to Oregon's Medicaid population.

Keynote speaker for The Skanner News group's 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast is Dr. Bruce Goldberg, Oregon Health Authority director recently tapped as temporary executive director of CoverOregon.

Gov. John Kitzhaber and representatives of the Obama administration have signed an agreement for sharing scarce water in the Upper Klamath Basin, where irrigation was shut off to ranchers last summer after the Klamath Tribes exercised newly awarded water rights to protect fish.

Southwest Portland residents opposed to the sale of Water Bureau property to a developer are raising funds to hire an attorney.

A bill signed by Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber last June may have ended any talk of a composting facility in the Stafford area, but S&H Landscape Supplies & Recycling never intended to abandon the property.

The Oregon Supreme Court received its first legal challenge this week to the Legislature's grand bargain over reductions to public employees' pension benefits.

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber is one of nine public officials named as Governing magazine's public officials of 2013.

Cover Oregon says if you want your coverage to start on Jan. 1, you have to submit your application online, postmark it, or fax it by December 4th.

Two months ago, Nike Chairman Phil Knight dangled a tantalizing offer before Oregon Health & Science University : the promise of $1 billion-cash-to finance expansion of the cancer institute that already bears his name.

A task force made up of ranchers, the Klamath Tribes and others is wrapping up work on recommendations to end decades of conflicts over water in the Upper Klamath Basin.

Oregon First Lady Cylvia Hayes will join a panel discussion of poverty at the Oregon Business Plan Leadership Summit, which opens Monday morning.

Cover Oregon was able to sign up almost 3,000 Oregonians to potentially obtain health insurance through the state's troubled health insurance exchange during application fairs it hosted across the state.

Ranchers and the Klamath Tribes have reached a tentative deal for sharing water in the drought-stricken Upper Klamath Basin .

The Banks High School Braves will have to choose a new mascot under a 2012 decision by the Oregon Board of Education banning Native American mascots.

Gov. John Kitzhaber on Monday announced a $487,000 loan to help GPS maker Garmin fund a $14 million expansion.

Cover Oregon, the bi-partisan state health care exchange set up under the Affordable Care Act , is facing more trouble.

Portland-area Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer has just drawn the most politically experienced Republican challenger in years.

GPS specialist Garmin appears to be preparing to expand operations in Salem, with a boost from a state incentive fund and local property tax breaks.

Oregon lawmakers worried about the state's heavy reliance on the income tax will try to deepen their revenue foundation by proposing a 5 percent sales tax, according to an early draft of a tax reform package.