During the meeting, Commissioner Melissa Fireside’s seat at the dais sat empty, as was the spot where her name plate would go.

In an auditorium on his alma mater’s Salem campus on Monday, Tobias Read took his oath of office as secretary of state with a promise to spend the next four years working to make Oregon better. Read,

From a historic election to record wildfires to drug recriminalization, 2024 was a big year for state government and political news in Oregon.

After President-elect Donald Trump won the Presidential election on Nov. 5, 2024, several University of Oregon campus organizations, students and faculty shared their thoughts on how they feel women’s rights will be affected under Trump’s campaign.

Senator-elect Mike McLane will begin his first term in Oregon’s highest legislative body with the goal of continued advocacy for rural Oregon while bracing his constituents for potential

Nurses from Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center, Legacy Emanuel Medical Center and Randall Children's Hospital, all in Portland, Ore., have taken a step toward unionization.

U.S. Reps. Andrea Salinas, D-Oregon and Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, introduced a bill last month to prohibit any election wagering. Their Ban Gambling on Elections Act mirrors a bill introduced by ...

The tributes to former President Jimmy Carter poured in Sunday afternoon after his death at age 100 was announced.

Democratic Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) introduced a bill on Tuesday that could shape how the United States holds elections.

The appellate panel ruled that Oregon has a significant interest in ensuring that its residents know when their conversations are being recorded.

Former State Treasurer Tobias Read is officially Oregon’s new secretary of state. Secretary Read was sworn into office at noon on Monday in Hudson Hall at Willamette University. That’s just across the street from the Oregon State Capitol in Salem.

The union would represent more than 2,200 nurses across the three Legacy hospitals. Legacy is the last major health system in the Portland metro area where a majority of nurses aren’t unionized.