Tina Kotek

As the Legislature prepares to meet, the governor talked of “fragile” progress on a variety of crises during her state of the state address.

Despite billions spent and thousands of people helped, the most recent available data shows homelessness is still increasing in the state.

The report resulted from anonymous complaints received last year

Flags at Oregon public institutions will be flown at half-staff for 30 days to honor the former president.

Gov. Tina Kotek convened a closed-door meeting Monday to discuss potential threats from the incoming presidential administration.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek says her efforts to ease a housing and homeless crisis, boost lagging educational achievement, and better help people with mental health and addiction challenges are bearing fruit. She just needs state lawmakers to agree to keep the pressure up.

State agencies say they don’t have enough money to pay for a fire season that burned almost 2 million acres. Lawmakers will step in to help next month.

With a second Trump presidential term on the horizon, Native American tribes in Oregon and elsewhere are concerned for their environmental restoration efforts.

Gov. Tina Kotek and other top Democrats have been more reserved than their counterparts in many other blue states. Republicans say that’s a good thing.

According to data from point-in-time counts and the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1,400 Oregon vets experience homelessness on any given night. And over half of them are unsheltered.

Buoyed by Lane County, Oregon is on track to meet Gov. Tina Kotek’s January goal of moving 650 formerly homeless people into permanent housing before the state’s latest homelessness emergency declaration expires in January.

The document doesn’t clarify key questions raised earlier this year, when three aides left the governor’s office after raising concerns about first lady Aimee Kotek Wilson’s expanding authority.