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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 […]
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.
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...
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.
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.
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 .
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...
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.
Jennifer Langston's tomatoes struggled but her eggplants overflowed, one of several first-season stories from OSU Extension's Seed to Supper graduates.
ODOT revealed that Oregon's gas consumption peaked in 2018 — and has slowly decreased in the time since.
"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.
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...
Bend buyers found more homes to choose from and prices dropped, making this premium market a bit more accessible than it was a year ago.
FORT MILL, S.C. — Top 100 retailer Broad River Retail, which owns and operates Ashley stores in the Southeast, Pacific Northwest and upper New England, has acquired six Ashley stores and a distribution center in Oregon from CTR Associates. The acquisition of the Oregon business, which generates more than...
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon Department of economists have long predicted gas tax revenue would decline as Oregonians purchase more efficient vehicles and use less gas to travel. That decline is officially here, officials said Friday, as motor fuels tax revenue is down 2.2% for 2026, compared to the first nine months of 2025.
There’s a town in eastern Oregon where your retirement budget doesn’t just survive, it actually thrives, and the mountains surrounding it look like someone hired a professional painter to do the backdrop. La Grande, Oregon is the kind of place that makes you wonder why nobody told you...
LA PINE, Ore. -- Rudy Dory, who built La Pine’s first grocery store 50 years ago and has expanded ever since, is the first winner of the National Grocers Association’s new Catalyst for Independence Award. The new award recognizes people who go out of their way to mentor...
Oregonians can tell state regulators Nov. 10 their thoughts on the state’s largest utility’s latest efforts to raise their electricity bills for an eighth year in a row. Portland General Electric, which serves about 840,000 residential customers in Oregon, is seeking to increase its rates by nearly 4%, or an average of about $8 a […]
