Latest Oregon state government News

National monument on California-Oregon border will remain intact after surviving legal challenge

Mar. 26, 2024 01:16 AM EDT

ASHLAND, Oregon (AP) — The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, a remote expanse of wilderness along the California-Oregon border, will not lose any of its acreage after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up two challenges to its expansion. Logging interests and...

Micro-apartments are back after nearly a century, as need for affordable housing soars

Mar. 21, 2024 13:21 PM EDT

SEATTLE (AP) — Every part of Barbara Peraza-Garcia and her family’s single-room apartment in Seattle has a double or even triple purpose. The 180-square-foot (17-square-meter) room is filled with an air mattress where she, her partner and their children, ages 2 and 4, sleep....

Oregon GOP senators barred from reelection over walkout seek statewide office instead

Mar. 14, 2024 15:01 PM EDT

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Two Republican state senators in Oregon are seeking statewide office after being barred from reelection for staging a record-long walkout last year to stall bills on abortion, transgender health care and gun control. Sen. Brian Boquist, who also made headlines...

States have hodgepodge of cumbersome rules for enforcing sunshine laws

Mar. 12, 2024 12:53 PM EDT

PHOENIX (AP) — A nationwide review of procedures by The Associated Press and CNHI News revealed a patchwork of complicated systems for resolving open government disputes that often put the burden of enforcing transparency laws on private citizens. The review, timed to Sunshine...

Amid fentanyl crisis, Oregon lawmakers propose more funding for opioid addiction medication in jails

Feb. 22, 2024 00:17 AM EST

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Kendra Sawyer spoke with her dad from the Deschutes County jail and told him she loved him. Six hours later, in the throes of opioid withdrawal, the 22-year-old took her own life. A year later, Sawyer’s father, Kent, is left wondering whether his daughter,...

After GOP walkout, Oregon lawmakers reconvene to focus on housing and drugs

Feb. 05, 2024 17:23 PM EST

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers began a new legislative session Monday, hoping to turn a fresh page after a record-long Republican walkout last year ground the Capitol to a halt for six weeks and disqualified 10 GOP state senators from reelection. All Republican senators were...

Oregon high court says 10 GOP state senators who staged long walkout can’t run for reelection

Feb. 01, 2024 17:28 PM EST

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Supreme Court said Thursday that 10 Republican state senators who staged a record-long walkout last year to stall bills on abortion, transgender health care and gun rights cannot run for reelection. The decision upholds the secretary of state’s...

Oregon’s high court says 10 GOP lawmakers who staged long walkout over abortion and other bills can’t run for reelection

Feb. 01, 2024 11:32 AM EST
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s high court says 10 GOP lawmakers who staged long walkout over abortion and other bills can’t run for reelection.

Oregon Supreme Court keeps Trump on primary ballot

Jan. 12, 2024 14:20 PM EST

SALEM, Oregon (AP) — Oregon's Supreme Court on Friday kept former President Donald Trump on the state's primary ballot, declining to wade into the legal chaos over whether he's disqualified to be president until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a similar case out of Colorado. Oregon...