Chief among lawmakers’ tasks is plugging a roughly $750 million hole in the state budget caused by the Republican federal tax and spending bill. But there’s plenty more on the docket.

There is a special legislative session set for a week from Friday to vote on her proposals to avoid laying off hundreds of Oregon Department of Transportation workers and cutting services.

Gov. Tina Kotek is tweaking a proposal to raise billions in taxes for roads and bridge upkeep, a little more than a week before the bill’s fate is tested in a special legislative session.

The Oregon Government Ethics Commission is asking the Oregon Law Commission, which helps the legislature tinker laws that ...

Under existing plans, the House would convene Friday to take up a proposal from Gov. Tina Kotek to hike the state’s gas tax ...

Since leaving Salem, Cortright has run an economic consulting practice. He is also a leader of the environmental group No ...

A new report says Utah policymakers have underutilized a database of insurance claims that could be used to shape policy ...

The Victims of Crime Act, enacted in 1984 under President Ronald Reagan, established grant programs to help states provide ...

In an interview with OPB, Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read decried the president’s statements, saying Trump “is clearly ...

Toward the end of the session, Meek, who chairs the Senate Finance and Revenue Committee and sat on the Joint Committee on ...

Morrow County will receive $2.535 million in state funding for its courthouse project, not $5 million as initially believed.

Oregon trails other Western states in building wildlife crossings to reduce animal-vehicle collisions. Efforts are gathering ...