Bills meant to restrict landfill expansions or operations are awaiting governors’ approval in several states, while New ...

California lawmakers will vote Friday on a budget proposal to freeze enrollment in a state-funded health care program for ...

The state is now forced to make changes or face millions in court-ordered fines, plus lawmakers are advancing bills that could make treatment more accessible.

The federal government could start selling off thousands of acres of Oregon public lands if provisions added to the Big Beautiful Bill win Congressional approval.

A bill granting striking workers unemployment benefits passed both chambers of Oregon’s legislatures on Thursday. It will now ...

Senators from the Pacific Northwest are reacting Thursday after a U.S. senator was taken to the ground and handcuffed at a press conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

If passed, SB 916 would make Oregon the first state in the nation to grant unemployment pay to striking workers in both the public and private sectors. The three states with similar laws — New York, ...

More than 40% of Oregon’s public school students are non-white, while approximately 14% of teachers identify that way.

HB 2025, a transportation funding package, would authorize the governor to select the director of the Oregon Department of Transportation. The Oregon Transportation Commission currently appoints the ...

The bill underwent last minute changes this week. The final version cuts unemployment benefits to 10 weeks instead of 26.

By Rebecca Shabad and Jacob Soboroff, NBC News Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcibly removed from a news conference in Los Angeles on Thursday and briefly detained after trying to question ...

Oregon’s lone Republican Congressman, Cliff Bentz, represents more than 705,000 Oregonians — about 16% of the state’s ...