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Oregon homeowners planned new lighting and electrical work inside a horse barn at their residence. A man helped design the lighting layout, quoted an hourly labor rate and installed wiring and electrical boxes. But he had neither the required electrical licenses nor a permit for the job, according to a final consent order.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — At a time when many employers are forcing workers back to the office, one Oregon company is giving its employees some of their free time back. The roughly 700 people who work at Oregon Community Credit Union will transition to a 32-hour workweek while retaining full-time pay and benefits by the […]
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Pacific Northwest, California see autumn uptick in cases. Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a poultry flock in Oregon, and the new case pushed the state’s death toll from the virus past 1 million domestic birds. Bird flu was confirmed in...
Oregon homeowners who missed the April 15 cutoff for the state’s senior and disabled property tax deferral have until Dec. 1 to file, and the late application carries a fee of 10 percent of the taxes, between $20 and $180. Ohio’s homestead exemption in Montgomery County closes Dec. 31, the same day Minnesota’s veterans exclusion... The post Homeowners in Ohio, Oregon, Kentucky and Minnesota face year-end 2026 property tax deadlines, from Oregon’s Dec. 1 late-filing senior deferral to Ohio’s Dec. 31 homestead exemption appeared first on The Financial Wire .
At the end of a private road near Mount Hood, a herd of shaggy cows waits for someone with a brush. These are Highland cows, the ones with long bangs and curved horns that fill so many phone screens. On one Oregon farm, you do more than look at them through a fence.
Picking berries is a quintessential summer tradition for many Pacific Northwesterners. The region has many farms, but fruit can easily be found in everyday corners. For about the past 140 years, the Himalayan Blackberry has taken over Oregon’s alleyways, waterfronts, forests and backyards. This thorny vine is actually a cousin of the rose, the plant behind Portland’s most famous nickname, but instead of beautiful flowers, the vines produce juicy fruit.
Subscribe to OPB’s First Look to receive Northwest news in your inbox six days a week. Hemp growers in Oregon are urging Congress to revise new regulations they say could sink their businesses. OPB food and agriculture reporter Alejandro Figueroa reports on how language in a bill to end...
Jennifer Langston's tomatoes struggled but her eggplants overflowed, one of several first-season stories from OSU Extension's Seed to Supper graduates.
Southern Oregon’s agricultural industry is entering another period of regulatory change as a newly released state legislative report identifies significant weaknesses in Oregon’s agricultural labor oversight, including inconsistent employment records, fragmented enforcement responsibilities and gaps in communication among agencies responsible for protecting farmworkers. The findings arrive less than two months before agricultural overtime requirements expand again, bringing additional financial and operational considerations to farms, vineyards, orchards and ranches throughout Josephine, Jackson, Douglas and Klamath counties.
"They didn't really explain if there was a glitch in the app or a problem with firmware."
Millions from USDA are flowing to Northwest food projects, from Carnation Farms to a Mount Vernon food hub and a Walla Walla malt venture.
ODOT revealed that Oregon's gas consumption peaked in 2018 — and has slowly decreased in the time since.
Five years after a heat wave killed 69 people in Multnomah County, an Oregon judge has allowed the county to pursue its claim that Exxon Mobil and other fossil fuel companies helped make the disaster worse by misleading the public about the climate risks of their products. Multnomah County Circuit...
More than 11,000 Portland General Electric customers lost power on Saturday night, according to the PGE outage map.
The city of Lake Oswego and the Lake Oswego Chamber of Commerce recently collaborated on an economic development strategy plan, which the City Council approved at a Tuesday, Nov. 3 […]
Terminal Gravity has joined a trend of established Oregon businesses searching for new owners.
A rare listing in Garthwick with a third-acre lot, restored historic details, and a backyard big enough to play pickleball. To be fair, it’s easy to pass by the Garthwick neighborhood without knowing it’s there. That was the point, after all, when its earliest investors came up with the idea. In 1914, a group of men, all members of the neighboring golf club, bought a tract of land tucked between the Waverly Country Club course on the Willamette River and SE 17th Avenue, in what is now the southernmost edge of Sellwood.
For Kerri Evans, owner of Sellwood Flower Company in Portland, Oregon, showing up in a Google search starts long before anyone opens a browser. It begins with the care customers receive inside the neighborhood shop. “We’ve worked hard to build a strong online presence, but I think what has made...
