The Ashland lawmaker wants the map to designate the risk level of broad areas rather than naming the risk of individual ...

Nearly four years ago, in the aftermath of the state’s most destructive wildfires in history, the Oregon Legislature passed a bipartisan package of wildfire prevention initiatives, including one that ...

Nearly four years ago, in the aftermath of the state’s most destructive wildfires in history, the Oregon Legislature passed a ...

If elected, he wants to focus on what he called base-level security: water supply, fires, preparing for disasters, addressing ...

He represented that district in the state Senate until earlier this month, after the Oregon Supreme Court ruled Republican senators who participated in a legislative walkout couldn’t seek ...

The Oregon House will get its first Japanese American representative after Multnomah and Washington county commissioners voted to appoint Bethany Democrat Mari Watanabe to a vacant seat in the ...

The seat became available after state Sen. Lisa Reynolds of Portland was selected to fill a vacancy for Senate District 17, which was previously represented by now Oregon State Treasurer Elizabeth ...

(KOIN) — Governor Tina Kotek delivered her State of the State address to a joint session of the newly-sworn in Oregon legislature ... When a district’s numbers show failure for their students ...

The Oregon Department of Forestry ran out of money, exhausting even the legislature's emergency funds and requiring a special session to figure out how to pay the state's firefighting bills.

April Ehrlich / JPR News A pair of bills has been introduced in the Oregon Legislature ... District. School districts are funded partly by enrollment, so as families leave, their state funding ...

The new legislative map, enacted in 2023, divides the eight counties into four new state Senate districts. The plaintiffs say two of these districts were illegally split in order to dilute their ...