A bill designed to keep hiking trails open by shielding cities and counties from lawsuits passed the Oregon House and heads ...

Gov. Tina Kotek has thrown her support for using Oregon’s “kicker” tax refund to infuse $1 billion into fighting wildfires.

Lawmakers in the Senate Education Committee declined to advance a cell phone in schools bill, after months of back-and-forth ...

Even if Democrats agree on such a move, a vote to suspend the kicker would require two Republican votes in the 30-member ...

A bill to restrict students' phone use during the school day died in the Oregon legislature, but it can still move forward.

Kotek suggests holding back $1 billion from the expected $1.64 refund, which would shift resources from urban to rural areas and would require a two-thirds vote.

Tina Kotek on Monday became the latest official ... “I do think this conversation – on a one-time basis – of supporting rural Oregon by potentially using a portion of the kicker tax break ...

Gov. Tina Kotek has thrown her support for using Oregon’s “kicker” tax refund to infuse $1 billion into fighting wildfires. Lawmakers have struggled for years to come up with a new stream of ...

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek told reporters Monday afternoon, May 19, she would be very reluctant to follow the lead of her fellow Democrat, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who last week proposed reducing ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – After a bill failed to advance in the Oregon Senate on Wednesday, that would have banned student cell phone use in schools statewide, Governor Tina Kotek is “exploring ...