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• The payroll tax to pay for transit would double from 0.1 percent to 0.2 percent. Kotek said the increase is necessary to ...
One day after calling a special session of the Oregon Legislature, Governor Tina Kotek laid out her proposals for a six-cent ...
President Trump has approved a federal disaster declaration for the March floods in southern Oregon, making federal funds ...
Fariborz Pakseresht, who has led the 11,000-employee agency through several controversies since 2017, is retiring.
Oregon ethics officials are investigating whether a housing council member violated state conflict of interest law. A citizen ...
Though SB 426 does not allow owners and direct contractors to waive liability, the new law is silent on the ability to recover through action against the subcontractor that failed to pay wages. In ...
Kotek had requested FEMA funds months ago after days of heavy downpour unleased flooding, landslides and mudslides in Coos, ...
Portland’s TriMet has become the latest U.S. transit agency to announce plans for significant service cuts to address a funding shortfall, announcing plans to reduce frequency on some bus lines this ...
The agency says it will begin cutting services later this year to begin closing a projected $300 million gap between its ...
As Gov. Tina Kotek works toward a special legislative session to mitigate nearly 500 layoffs looming at the Oregon Department of Transportation, some observers are still trying to understand the ...
Voters in eastern Oregon, Salem and other largely rural areas with prisons have a greater say in the state House than other ...
FEMA will help pay to repair damage caused by flooding in Coos, Curry and Douglas counties following a March storm. Governor Tina Kotek declared a state emergency for the area ...