Oregon

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.

A coastal Oregon tribe sued the federal government to slow the issuance of two offshore wind leases.

California and Oregon are experiencing yet another record-setting year of wildfires amid increasing uncertainty about FEMA and property insurance backstops.

A rapidly escalating fire season hit the West amid questions about federal funding and insurance.

The Grants Pass decision was viewed as the most consequential for local governments of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent session.

Oregon Democrats and Republicans had opposite takes on the possibility the state could be dispersing a kicker credit of $582 million for the 2025-27 biennium.

The number of rural hospitals in the red jumped by 7% in 2023. A Senate Finance Committee discussed aid to help them stay afloat.

The $380 million request for the zoo to voters in three Portland-area counties is the largest bond measure on the May 21 statewide primary ballot.