All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 4 2021 // Although the 2018 Farm Bill carved out hemp from the federal Controlled Substances Act, few court rulings have addressed the legal distinction between federally legal hemp and federally illegal cannabis.A new opinion from...
Oct 25 2021 // Lawyers representing New Seasons Market have filed a $2.7 million lawsuit against an Oregon beef producer accusing the company of negligence for delivering beef tainted with E. coli in 2019, court records show.Several...
Oct 22 2021 // Oregon’s central administrative agency inadvertently released the COVID-19 vaccination status of more than 40,000 state employees to two media outlets.The Oregonian/OregonLive reported a spreadsheet sent to them and...
Oct 20 2021 // Oli Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Rose City Associates in Portland, Ore.Pete Lackner and Bob Asher created Rose City Associates in 2012 through a merger of their respective agencies, and will continue to lead their...
Oct 13 2021 // Some workers at Voodoo Doughnuts who were fired during a deadly Pacific Northwest heat wave in June after going on strike are set to get their jobs back.KOIN-TV reports the National Labor Relations Board ruled the workers...
Oct 1 2021 // Federal watchdogs are suing Portland, Ore.-based Viewpoint Construction Software and its recruiting firm CampusPoint Corp., alleging they refused to hire a job applicant who is deaf.Viewpoint makes software that...
Sep 20 2021 // Oregon employers will pay on average less for workers’ compensation coverage in 2021, the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services announced earlier this month.The decline in costs marks nine years of...
Sep 13 2021 // The estate of a man fatally shot in downtown Portland, Ore., after a pro-Trump car rally last year is suing the city, the mayor and the county district attorney, saying their negligence contributed to his violent death.The...
Sep 9 2021 // Oregon employers will pay on average less for workers’ compensation coverage in 2021, the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services announced on Thursday.The decline in costs marks nine years of average...
Aug 25 2021 // A firefighter died this week while battling a wildfire southeast of Eugene, Oregon, officials said.Bryan Cutchen, Oakridge city administrator and acting fire chief, said the death is suspected to have been caused by a tree...
Aug 19 2021 // A federal judge has tossed most of the civil claims brought in a wrongful death lawsuit by the family of an Arizona rancher who served as spokesperson for the armed takeover of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife...
Aug 10 2021 // Oregon’s Occupational Safety and Health Agency said this week it has fined a Dundee, Ore., winery $11,100 for alleged violations of confined space rules after an investigation into the death of a worker.A worker at...
Aug 2 2021 // Two former employees of a home manufacturing company in eastern Oregon filed a lawsuit saying they endured anti-Black racism and discrimination, and were fired after reporting the incidents to managers.The lawsuit was...
Jul 26 2021 // Two former employees of a home manufacturing company in eastern Oregon have filed a lawsuit saying they endured anti-Black racism and discrimination, and then were fired after reporting the incidents to managers.The...
Jul 23 2021 // The nation’s largest wildfire is still raging through southern Oregon but crews were scaling back some night operations as hard work and weaker winds helped reduce the spread of flames even as wildfires continued to...
Jul 20 2021 // A former medical resident at Oregon Health & Science University who sued the school in 2018 alleging retaliation for her complaints about discrimination now accuses the school of breaching their settlement...
Jul 19 2021 // Erratic winds and dry lightning added to the dangers for crews battling the nation’s largest wildfire over the weekend in parched Oregon forests, just one of dozens burning across several Western states.The...
Jul 16 2021 // Firefighters are scrambling to control a raging wildfire in southeastern Oregon that’s spreading miles a day in windy conditions, one of numerous conflagrations across the U.S. West that are straining...
Jul 8 2021 // A farm and a labor contractor under investigation by Oregon’s workplace safety agency after the death of a farmworker Saturday were both previously cited for workplace violations.The Oregon Occupational Safety and...
Jul 6 2021 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Ward Insurance Agency Inc. in Oregon.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Erik Finrow, president of Ward Insurance, will join as executive vice president of Hub Northwest....