7+ hour, 50+ min ago   (523+ words) Oregon’s chief government ethics administrator emerged Friday from an outside examination of her own conduct with no violation established, closing an extraordinary case that required the state’s ethics watchdog to look beyond its own offices for someone to investigate the…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (442+ words) Oregon legislators are beginning to revisit laws they previously sent through the Capitol, tracing what happened after those measures took effect and examining whether state agencies, funding and public programs produced the results envisioned when the legislation was approved. Oregon…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (508+ words) Citizenship is a familiar word. What Americans expect from it, what self-government requires of the people living under it, and how those responsibilities have evolved across nearly 250 years of American democracy are considerably larger questions. Those questions will come to…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (554+ words) A decades-old framework governing how Americans with disabilities receive publicly funded services is moving into Oregon’s political arena as members of the Senate Human Services Committee examine changes in the federal government’s approach to the landmark Olmstead decision and what…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (981+ words) Josephine County’s jail and juvenile detention levy moved further into the November election Tuesday when all three county commissioners agreed to personally endorse the measure in the voters’ pamphlet, placing Commissioners Ron Smith, Colene Martin and Gary Richardson together in…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (397+ words) Josephine County’s continuing effort to establish stable financing for its adult jail and juvenile detention system moved into another phase Tuesday, with county commissioners scheduled to examine the possible creation of a separate juvenile justice service district while a five-year…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (285+ words) The economic confrontation between the United States and Canada will sharpen dramatically after midnight Tuesday, when Canadian tariffs reaching 50 percent descend on billions of dollars in American merchandise, carrying a dispute between two of the world’s most closely intertwined economies…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (376+ words) Nine neonatologists who spent years caring for Southern Oregon’s most medically vulnerable newborns are no longer practicing under their former arrangement at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center, leaving the region’s only neonatal intensive care unit operating under a changing physician…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (1055+ words) Former Clackamas County Commissioner Melissa Fireside, already wanted in Oregon under an expanding collection of felony charges, has been indicted in federal court on two counts of wire fraud while authorities continue efforts to locate her and return her to…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (918+ words) A dispute that began amid contentious budget reductions and academic program closures at Lane Community College has moved into federal court, where a former student alleges college administrators and board officials violated his constitutional rights by barring him from campus…...