Oregon

By delaying the bill signing, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek shortens time opponents have to gather signatures for a measure to overturn the transportation bill.

Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland will face economic costs from the Trump administration's showy deployments of National Guard troops and immigration agents.

Legacy Health, an eight-hospital Portland, Ore.-based healthcare system, that abandoned merger plans in May received a downgrade and negative outlook from Moody's Ratings.

The GOP reconciliation bill will cut $888 million in revenue from Oregon, state economists said, because its state tax laws conform with federal law changes.

Analysts say the outcome of the special session called by Gov. Tina Kotek to avert layoffs and close a transportation funding gap could affect ratings.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek signed the legislation expected to raise $40 million annually.

The layoffs will mean a hit to basic services and the cancellation or delay of projects.

Oregon Department of Transportation leaders said they will begin layoffs Monday after lawmakers adjourned without passing a transportation funding bill.

The law would allow up to $800 million in bond funding if Major League Baseball selects Portland, Oregon, for an expansion or transplant team.

Oregon's Senate president altered the make-up of the transportation committee to get the massive tax bill passed.

Washington and Oregon are still nailing down the final cost and toll rates for the long-planned replacement for the aging spans carrying I-5 across the river.

An economic slowdown partially fueled by tariff turmoil has forced West Coast states to lower revenue projections and slash budgets.

Lawmakers have $755 million less to spend and only six more weeks to work on the two-year budget.

The state plans to price $626 million in GOs, in part, to fund the I-5 bridge replacement

The lawsuit contends that only Congress has the power to set tariffs that the president has unilaterally increased.

A bill in Oregon would tax professional baseball players to fund $800 million in bonds for a stadium to attract a Major League Baseball team.

The nonprofit Wood River Community Housing Trust uses municipal bonds as part of its toolkit to finance workforce housing in the pricey Sun Valley, Idaho, area.

The $550 million deal from an issuer with two triple-A ratings includes about $250 million for refunding and an $85 million taxable piece.

BRIDGE Housing Corp. is the first to publicly offer tax-exempt bonds to finance construction of a new development, a 224-unit project in Portland, Oregon.

Kotek has spent the past month working on a very busy agenda involving housing, fires, transportation and construction labor agreements.