Lauren Dake

The Portland Business Journal’s gubernatorial forum marked the first — and only — scheduled appearance in Portland.

Oregon reversed its decision to fire HR chief Jessica Knieling, giving her a new $23,008-a-month Department of Justice role, back pay, and $50,000 for attorney fees.

If Oregon were a political island, isolated from the national headlines, the odds of state Sen. Christine Drazan breaking the nearly 40-year losing streak of Republicans running for governor would be higher.

Oregon approved $1.25M in emergency funds to add ballot drop boxes and expand ballot tracking ahead of the general election as mail-in voting faces delays.

The agency confirmed her firing but released no further comment.

Most of the $49 million settlement will go to settle wrongful death cases for people who died from COVID-19 while in an Oregon prison.

The remains of the last victims of Tuesday’s workplace disaster at Nippon Dynawave in Longview, Washington, were removed from the mill this weekend.

The battle is a rematch between Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek and Christine Drazan, a Republican

The state senator led in the early returns on Election Night. Her win lines up a rematch with Gov. Tina Kotek.

The former Trail Blazer is running for governor again a decade and a half after losing to John Kitzhaber.