SALEM, Ore. – One day after officially taking office, Governor Tina Kotek issued three executive orders to tackle Oregon’s homelessness crisis. The governor set a statewide housing production goal of 36,000 per year, declared a “homelessness state of emergency, and ...
Author: Pat Dooris, Jamie Parfitt (KGW) SALEM, Ore. (KGW) — A new law took effect in Oregon this month, one that begins a five-year process of mandating that farmworkers receive overtime pay after working a certain amount of hours per ...
Author: Bryant Clerkley (KGW) SALEM, Ore. (KGW) — Oregon’s 82nd legislative session is the most diverse in history with 19 legislators of color from the African American, Latino and Asian communities. On Monday, January 9, five Vietnamese American legislators were ...
SALEM, Ore. – In one of her first acts as Oregon’s governor, Tina Kotek announced she’ll sign an executive order to address the state’s homelessness crisis. On Monday, January 9, 2023, Tina Kotek was sworn in as the 39th Governor ...
WATCH: Tina Kotek will be sworn in as Oregon Governor and deliver her inaugural address in a ceremony scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. Read more: https://www.kgw.com/article/news/poli… ...
Author: Anthony Macuk (KGW) SALEM, Ore. (KGW) — Oregon’s 82nd Legislative Assembly is about to get underway, kicking off a nearly six-month legislative session that aims to tackle some of the state’s biggest ongoing challenges. One of the biggest changes ...
HARNEY COUNTY, Ore. – A federal judge has entirely blocked Oregon Measure 114, which would have significantly tightened the state’s gun laws. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports the law was passed by voters in November on a narrow margin and has ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Republican leader Kevin McCarthy failed in the second round of voting to become House speaker, a historic defeat with no clear way out. In the first vote for Speaker of the House in the new Republican majority, ...
Authors: Jonathan Soto, Anthony Macuk (KGW) SALEM, Ore. (KGW) – Oregon’s new gun control and psilocybin laws have dominated headlines in recent weeks, both due to their hot-button subject matter and because their respective ballot initiatives, Measure 114 and Measure 109, both set ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NBC) – Six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns were released Friday by the House Ways and Means Committee. The returns are expected to provide an in-depth look at Trump’s finances while he served as president. ...