John Kitzhaber News

The clunky old I-5 bridges over the Columbia, with their drawbridge and traffic jams, will be with us for the foreseeable future after the CRC was killed off last month.

Members of the Klamath Tribes present Gov. John Kitzhaber with a blanket Friday, April 18, 2014, outside Chiloquin, Ore., during signing ceremonies for a water agreement between the tribes and cattle ranchers.

Cattle ranchers and Indian tribes who long fought over scarce water in Oregon's Upper Klamath Basin have signed an agreement to share access to rivers and cooperate on restoring habitat for endangered fish the tribes hold sacred.

PERS reform used to play to a nearly empty house. It roused public employees and partisan politicians who showed up for the fight, but it bored the general public who rarely took notice of what was at stake.

Oracle is gearing up for a fight with officials in Oregon over its role developing an expensive health insurance exchange website that still isn't fully operational.

Lake Oswego became one of more than 70 cities in Oregon to institute a temporary ban on medical marijuana dispensaries, with the city council voting 6 to 1 Tuesday evening to approve a yearlong moratorium on licensed facilities.

When David Evans checked his mail on March 22, what he found made him want to shout from the rooftops.

Happy Valley City Council reached an informal consensus at its Tuesday evening work session to have city staffers continue to meet with property owners who are looking to de-annex from the city of Damascus and become part of Happy Valley.

Gov. John Kitzhaber gets a sizable campaign donation as he gears up to run for an unprecedented fourth term.

Volunteers with the Oregon Food Bank Network, seen here in a 2012 file photo, donate millions of hours of their time each year.

Secretary of State Kate Brown listens to Gov. John Kitzhaber speak to the Oregon Business Plan Leadership Summit at the Oregon Convention Center in December.

A turnaround expert brought in to fix Oregon's troubled health insurance exchange is clamping down on spending and who can make financial decisions as he tries to get Cover Oregon back on track.

Gov. John Kitzhaber in March signed a bill that allows cities and counties to enact one-year moratoriums on the operation of medical marijuana dispensaries.

I've been meaning to fix up the bio-sketch below. Certainly, fix the age 56, since I hit 57 two months ago.

April 15 is the Internal Revenue Service deadline for filing annual tax returns, and a good time to reflect on the need for tax reform.

There may be a silver lining to employers' move to high-deductible health plans: It is making medical providers more conscious of the need to control costs.

A change in state law furthers Gov. John Kitzhaber's education reform efforts, clarifying who can participate in dual college credit courses - and helping more students to do so.

There's more than talk now about bringing offshore wind farms to the West Coast and Oregon is at he heart of the deal.

Voting in our "most intriguing" Oregon political figures continues, and many in the running have ties to Oregon's Capitol.

Media giant Comcast has contributed $15,000 to Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber's re-election campaign through three of its entities, according to disclosure reports filed Friday afternoon .