Lawmakers’ limited authority of such quasi-public agencies—all of which depend on a tax of some sort granted to them by the ...

Three Democratic members of the state House of Representatives introduced a bill that would phase out research on monkeys at ...

Gov. Tina Kotek is asking the Legislature for $100 million more in grant funding for the early literacy initiative.

As an education accountability bill advances through the Legislature, lawmakers warn without proper implementation, it won't ...

The “Copacabana” singer will honor regional music teachers on his farewell tour. Of the $10,000 gifts the Manilow Music ...

City Councilor Steve Novick had a rough go of it on May 21 as dozens of people publicly testified against his proposal to ...

The ballot title is now subject to challenge by anyone who objects to the title’s wording between now and June 2.

Angela Bonilla, president of the Portland Association of Teachers, wrote a lengthy email to City Councilor Dan Ryan on May 24 ...

The council must, by law, pass the final city budget of $8.5 billion by the end of June 11. That means that after last week’s ...

On May 22, the U.S. House passed what it called the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”—more than 1,100 pages of ideas President ...

A proposal in Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson’s budget to eliminate the equivalent of 4.18 full-time ...

As the Portland City Council spent nearly 15 hours approving an $8.5 billion preliminary city budget last week, much of the ...