An Oregon state employee and a labor union have reached a settlement over her lawsuit seeking payback of obligatory union fees, marking the first refund of forced fees since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in late June that government workers can’t be required to contribute to labor groups, the employee’s lawyers said Monday.
Read moreAn FBI agent lied about firing two shots at one of the leaders of the 2016 armed occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, moments before Oregon State Police shot the man in the heart, the government said in opening arguments at the agent’s trial Wednesday.
Read moreA Portland, Oregon, LLC sued Quasar Energy Group in Multnomah County Court for going over budget and missing deadlines in building a biogas facility capable of processing 8 million pounds of cow manure into natural gas each year.
Read moreA fast-moving fire fueled by gusting winds in the Pacific Northwest killed one person, forced dozens of households to evacuate and prompted Oregon Gov. Kate Brown to declare a state of emergency Wednesday.
Read moreThe federal government should have done more to protect Oregon’s gray wolves, no matter what farmers and ranchers say, attorneys for five environmental groups told the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday.
Read moreA high school senior is free to wear the T-shirt that got him suspended while his lawsuit alleging violation of his free speech rights proceeds, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Read moreThe 15-year-old boy who admitted sparking a massive wildfire in the Columbia River Gorge by lobbing firecrackers into a ravine won’t serve any jail time, but he will have to pay a $36.6 million restitution bill that his lawyer called unconstitutional and “absurd.”
Read moreLawyers for oil, gas and steel companies told a judge Friday that they shouldn’t have to pay the Yakama Nation for its efforts to clean up pollution that has migrated beyond the bounds of a federally recognized Superfund site where the Willamette River winds through the center of the city.
Read moreAn annual music festival in Portland brought a federal complaint Monday over the Coachella music festival’s requirement that bands sit out all other West Coast festivals for the six months surrounding Coachella.
Read moreA high-speed rail line connecting Seattle and Portland with Vancouver, British Columbia, could be a possibility, as Washington state’s governor and British Columbia’s premier promised more funding Friday to study such a project.
Read moreAn Oregon judge has been barred from the courtroom for three years, after the state Supreme Court found he undermined public confidence in the judiciary by refusing to perform same-sex marriages, letting a felon under his supervision handle a gun and repeatedly lying during investigations into his actions.
Read moreAttorneys representing petroleum and trucking interests told a Ninth Circuit panel that Oregon’s clean fuel program discriminates against out-of-state businesses.
Read moreA 20-year-old Oregon man filed age discrimination lawsuits against Walmart and Dick’s Sporting Goods on Monday, claiming that the retailers refused to sell him rifles because he was under 21.
Read moreOregon Governor Kate Brown signed a law Monday aiming to close the loophole that allows people convicted of domestic violence and stalking to buy and keep guns.
Read moreA state ethics commission formally charged former Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber with 10 counts of using his state contacts to benefit his fiancee’s consulting firm.
Read moreThe teen who tossed firecrackers into a forested ravine above a heavily populated hiking trail agreed Friday to a plea deal involving five years of probation and 1,900 hours of community service overseen by the U.S. Forest Service.
Read moreOregon could become the first state in the union that guarantees health care to its citizens as a constitutional right, if the state Senate sends a bill approved in the House of Representatives to place the issue before voters in November.
Read moreAn Oregon woman is the first known human to be infected with a kind of eye worm thought to only exist in cattle, leading scientists to speculate that Americans may be vulnerable to the parasite.
Read moreThe ACLU of Oregon brought a federal FOIA complaint Wednesday against the Department of Homeland Security, seeking information on its policies on arresting suspected undocumented immigrants and U.S. citizens in and around Oregon courthouses.
Read moreWildEarth Guardians brought a federal FOIA complaint against the Army Corps of Engineers for information on “secretive meetings” it held about “the significant harm the agency is causing” to endangered Chinook salmon and steelhead through more than a dozen dams.
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