A bill in the Legislature to use income taxes of future players to support bonds is a strategic way to help land a Major ...

Oregon forestry officials now have a general idea of how they’ll find a new state forester — more than four months after Cal ...

If Gov. Bob Ferguson signs the bill into law, Washington will join New York and New Jersey in paying unemployment for striking workers.

The bill caps rent increases at 7% plus inflation, or 10%, whichever is less. And it prohibits rent increases during the ...

Elected governor in 2022, after 9 years as the state’s longest-serving House Speaker, Tina Kotek is one of two openly lesbian ...

Democratic lawmakers passed a compromise version of a bill to cap yearly rent increases Sunday, the final day of the state’s ...

House Democrats believe the $77.1 billion operating budget would protect essential services and support K-12 education.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Sen. Cory Booker are holding a sit-in on the steps of the US Capitol — the latest move by Democrats to stand up to President Donald Trump as they face ...

Many of his actions were promised during his campaign, but enacted once Trump made it to the White House with a blunt force ...

Speaker Mike Johnson’s agenda has been repeatedly seized by a group of GOP hardliners who have used the party’s razor-thin margin in the House to score their own political wins. Now, Republicans from ...