Washington DC – Today, Oregon Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden asked Senate leaders to include emergency funding for wildfire suppression in any short term funding agreement that is considered this week to keep the federal government running. They also asked for Read More
Salem, Ore. –State Treasurer Ted Wheeler today announced that Lisa Massena has been named the Executive Director of the new Oregon Retirement Savings Plan, an effort to increase retirement security by making a retirement plan available to all Oregonians lacking access Read More
Salem, Ore. – Today the Raise the Wage coalition—a broad statewide group of workers, business owners and community organizations—filed a ballot measure that would increase Oregon’s statewide wage floor to $13.50 over two years and restore the power of cities and Read More
Bend, Ore. – Bend Police say a Klamath Falls resident used a knife to commit a robbery at the K Market last night around 9:08 pm. Brian Keith Gifford allegedly forced the store clerk to give him an undisclosed amount of money by threatening the clerk with a Read More
Portland, Ore. – More than 200 Citizen-Airmen from the Oregon Air National Guard’s 142nd Fighter Wing are scheduled to return from an Eastern Europe deployment throughout this week. Yesterday, the first four F-15 Eagles returned to the Portland Air National Read More
Grants Pass, Ore. – On Saturday at about 3:30 PM, OSP Troopers and emergency personnel responded to the report of a two vehicle crash on Highway 99 near Fruitdale Drive in Grants Pass. According to Sergeant Jeff Allison, a 1988 Chevrolet S-10 pickup was traveling Read More
Salem, Ore. – Raise the Wage coalition will make major announcement at Oregon’s State Capitol regarding action to raise Oregon’s minimum wage in 2016. Union leaders, social workers, a fast food worker, and others are scheduled to speak at the event which starts Read More
Bend, Ore. – Today volunteers from REI stores across the nation will help build a new trail on the Deschutes National Forest’s Bend-Ft. Rock Ranger District in cooperation with Forest Service employees and members of the Central Oregon Trail Alliance. The Read More
Salem, Ore. – The Road User Fee Task Force will meet Noon to 2:00 p.m., Sept. 30th at the State Capitol Building, 900 Court St. SE, Conference Room 350, in Salem. The Oregon Department of Transportation implementation team will give an update of accomplishments on Read More
Salem, Ore. – Oregon.gov is one of the top 10 most intuitive and functional state websites, according to the Center for Digital Government’s 2015 Best of the Web awards announced this month: http://goo.gl/7fFfBp. This marks the second year in a row Oregon has Read More
