John Kitzhaber News

Oregon businesses will be able to register as 'benefit corporations' starting next year.

The Army Corps of Engineers will not consider the climate effects of burning U.S. coal in Asia in upcoming reviews of proposed export terminals in the Pacific Northwest, an agency official testified Tuesday during a congressional hearing.

The Agriculture Department says it has no indications that genetically modified wheat found in Oregon last month has spread beyond the field in which it was found.

Then, in 1962, he joined the Portland Gun Club. The former owner of Shooter's Emporium, 606 S.E. 162nd Ave., is the oldest living lifetime member of the gun club.

I reported last week on Oregon's Chief Education Officer Rudy Crew having applied for a job elsewhere after only a year working here.

Oregon legislators on Monday continued to work on a bill allowing the imposition of emergency taxes in financially ailing counties struggling to maintain basic law enforcement services.

The Oregon Senate voted down a $6.55 billion budget for primary and secondary schools on Monday after one Democrat and all 14 Republicans said it didn't provide enough money.

The Oregon House narrowly approved a bill that would allow counties to tax tobacco products.

Budgets containing state aid for Oregon's community colleges and state universities -- budgets that even a key lawmaker conceded are inadequate -- are headed for votes in the Legislature next week.

Gov. John Kitzhaber announced in February that Oracle would retain jobs at its Hillsboro site and expand its operations in Oregon.

The head of the Oregon Employment Department is retiring and her deputy has also been forced out in a bureaucratic bloodbath that claimed a third veteran manager fired by the director on her way out the door.

Mahonia Hall, the governor's official residence with a reputation for being drafty, has gotten an energy upgrade.

We've reached the point in the Oregon legislative session where everyone is waiting for the final budget deals that will bring things to a more-or-less tidy conclusion.

The Agriculture Department says it has no indications that genetically modified wheat found in Oregon last month has spread beyond the field in which it was found.

The Agriculture Department says it has no indications that genetically modified wheat found in Oregon last month has spread beyond the field in which it was found.

Low winter snow pack and below-normal stream flows are making for severely dry conditions in Malheur County.

For one thing, the state has higher expectations from those graduates -- and their universities -- than even the fondest aunt.

Oregon's three newest charging stations for electric vehicles are within a stone's throw of the Capitol.

At the end of May 2012, Gov. John Kitzhaber pulled a huge rabbit out of his education reformer's hat: former New York and Miami school superintendent Rudy Crew, to become Oregon's first chief education officer.

In March, Clackamas County Counsel Stephen Madkour fired assistant county attorney Scot Sideras and filed a complaint against him to the Oregon State Bar and Oregon Government Ethics Commission.