All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 30 2014 // A group testing West Coast waters for radiation from a damaged Japanese nuclear power plant says no evidence of contamination has been found in Oregon. Massive amounts of contaminated water were released from the Fukushima...
Jul 25 2014 // A Portland, Ore. man who says he was molested by his Scout leader in the 1970s seeks $5.3 million in a lawsuit filed against the Boy Scouts of America. The lawsuit filed Wednesday says the national office allowed the...
Jul 25 2014 // Shooting ranges in White City, Ore. are reopening after the National Rifle Association agreed to provide insurance coverage.The 18 ranges were forced to close July 1 because their insurance carrier dropped coverage after a...
Jul 24 2014 // Allstate Insurance Co. plans to add several local agency owners in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska and Hawaii in 2014.Allstate’s plan is to recruit 51 new exclusive agents, 13 financial specialists and the company...
Jul 22 2014 // The recently fired police chief of a central Oregon town says he was undone by an ambitious deputy who had eyes for his job and a city government that resented the leave he took for military service.Former Prineville...
Jul 16 2014 // In the third year of a drought, reservoirs in far Eastern Oregon are low, and farmers are running out of irrigation water. South of Ontario, Jay Chamberlin of the Owyhee (oh-WEYE’-hee) Irrigation District in Nyssa...
Jul 15 2014 // A Southern Oregon wildfire destroyed six homes and 14 other buildings, and dozens of additional blazes ignited after thousands of lightning strikes lashed the state.The Moccasin Hill fire began Sunday near the ranching...
Jul 7 2014 // The man fired as leader of Oregon’s workers compensation agency after just three months on the job has filed notice that he plans to sue over his ouster.John Plotkin alleges his predecessor at SAIF Corp. wanted the...
Jun 13 2014 // An Oregon electrician who claimed he was fired by Nike because he complained about safety violations at the Beaverton campus has lost a $27 million lawsuit against the company. A Multnomah County Circuit Court jury ruled...
May 28 2014 // A 19-year-old man caused a three-car crash when he fainted while holding his breath as he drove through a tunnel northwest of Portland, Oregon State Police said.Daniel J. Calhon, of Snohomish, Washington, told...
May 28 2014 // A Portland, Ore. woman is suing her yoga studio and a glass company after she suffered serious injuries when a mirror fell on her during class.Lindsey Eltinge said she had her eyes closed when the mirror fell in January,...
May 14 2014 // The Oregon Supreme Court has declined to review a 2009 Multnomah County jury’s class action verdict, upholding a finding that a Portland food-processing plant violated Oregon’s wage and hour laws.Because of the...
May 9 2014 // The Oregon Supreme Court has been asked to invalidate a ski resort’s liability waiver by a snowboarder paralyzed from the waist down on one of the resort’s expert jumps.The snowboarder’s attorneys argue...
May 5 2014 // Another lawsuit has been filed against the Catholic Archdiocese of Portland by a man who says he was one of dozens of boys sexually abused by a priest in the 1960s and 1970s.In the lawsuit filed last month in federal court...
Apr 29 2014 // Patriot Underwriters Inc. has acquired the assets of Holdren Insurance Group Inc. in Bend, Ore. HIG, formed in 2010, focused on the workers’ compensation needs of the shooting sports industry. Patriot will build upon...
Apr 24 2014 // Another lawsuit has been filed against the Catholic Archdiocese of Portland by a man who says he was one of dozens of boys sexually abused by a priest in the 1960s and 1970s.In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in...
Apr 17 2014 // Overland Park, Kan.-based SeaFire Insurance Services is seeking new agency partners in Oregon and Idaho for its auto dealer and repair insurance program. SeaFire will consider appointments for retail insurance agencies...
Apr 17 2014 // A wrongful death lawsuit filed in Portland, Ore. alleges that a 911 Spanish language interpreter botched the translation of an address, sending medics to the wrong place after a caller reported that a young woman could not...
Apr 16 2014 // An Oregon postal worker seeks more than $180,000 in a lawsuit filed against the owner of a dog that allegedly attacked her.The Register-Guard newspaper reported that Kristin Joachim’s suit was filed in Lane County...
Apr 15 2014 // People are driving less, and their vehicles have become more fuel efficient.While those might be considered positive trends, a potential decline in gas-tax revenue is one reason the Oregon Department of Transportation says...