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Lawmakers made changes in response to pushback from stores and their neighbors fed up with collateral damage from Oregon’s iconic environmental measure.

The Portland pediatrician introduced a bill that would increase compensation for her and other primary care providers.

Trip venues are closing, raising questions about how to fund the shroom bureaucracy.

Lawmakers’ limited authority of such quasi-public agencies—all of which depend on a tax of some sort granted to them by the Legislature and the governor—has come into sharp focus.

The ballot title is now subject to challenge by anyone who objects to the title’s wording between now and June 2.

But nobody’s minding the state agency that promotes Oregon tourism.

Brad Martin, who has served as director of the Democratic Party of Oregon for the past 12 years, is moving onward.

While the timing appeared sudden, it came five weeks after the Oregon Journalism Project first contacted Travel Oregon about an investigation.

Hoping to generate revenue for a transportation funding package, lawmakers revisit a concept that caused two previous Republican walkouts.

The governor says Gavin Newsom faces a tougher budget situation. Kotek is also unwilling to gamble on what Medicaid changes Congress might pass.

The commission abruptly reversed course at its May 15 meeting, less than 24 hours after the Oregon Journalism Project reported on the new policy.

Gov. Kotek cites lack of federal support for transitioning to electric vehicles.

Gov. Kotek signs a bill prohibiting the state’s vast online gambling books from taking bets on greyhounds.

Fagan agreed last week to pay a $1,600 fine stemming from two incidents that resulted in complaints.

The embattled Oregon Department of Forestry faces a new whistleblower lawsuit in Marion County Circuit Court.