All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 3 2022 // New state rules require access to water, shade and breaks on hot days, but workers say they’re still laboring in unsafe conditions.Skyler Fischer is forklift driver at a Fred Meyer distribution center in the town of...
Jul 22 2022 // The city of Portland has paid $55,000 to two independent journalists who alleged excessive force by Portland police during a 2020 Black Lives Matter demonstration.An investigation after their lawsuit was filed determined...
Jul 4 2022 // Some Oregon business groups are suing over the state’s new job site rules mandating that employers take steps to protect workers from extreme heat and wildfire smoke.Regulations adopted by the Oregon Occupational...
Jun 23 2022 // Some Oregon business groups are suing over the state’s new job site rules mandating that employers take steps to protect workers from extreme heat and wildfire smoke.Regulations adopted by the Oregon Occupational...
Jun 14 2022 // A self-published romance novelist who once wrote an online essay called “How to Murder Your Husband” was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole for murdering her husband at his workplace in...
Jun 10 2022 // A Portland, Oregon, software company and its staffing agency will each pay $112,500 to a deaf job applicant who said they refused to hire him because he requested a sign-language interpreter at a group job...
Jun 8 2022 // A woman is suing a memory care center outside Portland, Oregon, after her husband left the facility unknown to staff and drowned in a creek.Toufik “Tom” Tanous, 79, suffered from severe memory loss and had...
May 31 2022 // A nearly 30-year veteran of the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office in Bend, Oregon, has filed a $2.5 million federal lawsuit against the county, the sheriff, and two private investigators for alleged civil rights...
May 19 2022 // Oregon remains poised to see a potentially “challenging” wildfire season this summer, despite a wet and cool spring in much of western Oregon, one of the state’s top fire watchers said Monday.The rain and...
May 18 2022 // A lawsuit alleges a Salem, Oregon, police officer accused a Native American man of stealing a car he was working on, grabbed him, shoved him onto the hood of his police car and handcuffed him with no justification for...
May 11 2022 // Mt. Hood Skibowl in Oregon will keep cyclists off its forested trails this summer after losing a lawsuit from a man who said he slammed into a signpost and was paralyzed from the waist down.A Multnomah County jury awarded...
May 10 2022 // As summer approaches forecasters say Central Oregon has the highest fire risk of anywhere in the state.Oregon Public Broadcasting reports the latest fire season outlook, released this week by the National Interagency Fire...
May 3 2022 // Hub International Ltd. acquired the assets of BDTAB LLC and Corvallis Insurance LLC, collectively doing business as Hanson Insurance Group, in Corvallis, Oregon. Brad Hanson, CEO of Hanson Insurance Group, Trent Hanson,...
Apr 21 2022 // A man who was tasked with fielding complaints of harassment at the Oregon Capitol is suing, saying he was pushed out of the job after reporting serious problems in his office and in the upper ranks of legislative...
Apr 19 2022 // Environmental cleanup is underway following a fire at a gas station in Medford, Oregon.The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality said that over 12,000 gallons of various petroleum products, mostly lube oil, were...
Apr 7 2022 // TriMet is facing a $10 million lawsuit from the city of Portland, Oregon, for alleged deeply flawed work on a streetcar track, leaving it with major structural defects that could cost the city millions in repairs.Oregon...
Mar 30 2022 // Low water storage and snowpack levels in southern Oregon have prompted a fifth Oregon county to declare a drought emergency.Oregon Public Broadcasting reports Jackson County commissioners made the drought declaration,...
Mar 25 2022 // A coalition of businesses wants a court to block Oregon’s plan to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.Oregon Public Broadcasting reports the state’s new Climate Action Plan administrative rules,...
Mar 16 2022 // A La Pine, Oregon, man is suing St. Charles Health System in Bend for $43.5 million after complications from brain surgery left him paralyzed.Jackie Dale Yeley filed the lawsuit in Deschutes County Circuit Court, through...
Mar 10 2022 // Hub International Ltd. acquired the assets of Niedermeyer Risk Management LLC in Beaverton, Oregon. Jon Niedermeyer, CEO & managing partner of Niedermeyer Risk Management, and the Niedermeyer Risk Management team will...