More evidence of the growing strain on Oregon’s economy: Business bankruptcies jumped 25% last year, to their highest point since 2013. Bankruptcy filings are up all over the country among consumers, ...

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department on Feb. 20 announced that 22 additional state parks and recreational areas will no longer waive the parking fee beginning March 30. The agency said visitors ...

Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB With Oregon set to lose out on nearly $900 million due to congressional tax breaks, state senators offered profoundly different takes Monday on what a bill rejecting some of ...

A plan to partially disconnect Oregon's tax code from federal changes passed in the Oregon Senate on Feb. 16 after the chamber voted 17 to 13 on Senate Bill 1507. "This bill is a practical, balanced, ...

Animal rights advocates are moving closer to getting a radical initiative onto Oregon’s November ballot that would criminalize almost all activities that injure or kill animals. David Michelson, one ...

Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB Long-raging debates about Oregon’s tax on a dead person’s estate have given way to something novel this year: A bill to change that tax is very much alive in Salem. Senate ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A petition to ban hunting in Oregon is picking up steam. Animal rights advocates are fighting to change the law in Oregon, including banning most hunting, fishing and animal ...

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The state's decision came after federal courts found that Drug Enforcement Administration agent Samuel Landis had federal immunity from prosecution. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver visits Portland as ...

SALEM, Ore. — Democrats in the Oregon Senate passed a bill Monday which partially disconnects the state's tax regime from that of the federal government — closing what otherwise would be a budget gap ...

Aaron Longton reached down into the rinsing sink in his garage-turned-fish-processing facility on the Oregon coast and hoisted a redbanded rockfish by its fat bottom lip. The homely fish was next in ...

After lawsuit, Portland homeless service provider will shutter, closing over 400 beds Sunstone Way, a nonprofit operating more than 400 shelter beds in Portland and Multnomah County, will close by ...