The Oregon Legislature passed two bills to provide funding to summer learning programs and to ensure they boost student ...

Gov. Tina Kotek fired Jessica Kampfe, the head of the Oregon Public Defense Commission, on Thursday morning. The agency ...

The Justice Department is launching a civil suit against the Maine Department of Education for violating Title IX, a federal ...

Lauren McCauley is the editor of Maine Morning Star. She has covered politics and policy in Maine for more than 10 years and ...

Oregon lawmakers are considering restricting cell phone usage by students. Columnist Randy Stapilus writes that simpler could be better.

A bipartisan bill moving through the Oregon Senate would impose consequences on private utilities delaying wildfire lawsuits.

Environmental and climate advocates are looking to revamp the state’s popular electric vehicle rebate program.

States across the country are worried about losing the pandemic-era money that in some cases they’ve already spent.

At a roundtable hosted by Gov. Tina Kotek, more than a dozen business leaders described a dire situation under President ...

Oregon lawmakers voted unanimously on Tuesday to add digitally created or altered images and recordings to the state’s ...

I put off writing this column for weeks, for a few reasons.  As a rule, journalists are much more comfortable writing about ...

It would be the seventh disaster declaration since 2016 for coastal salmon fisheries due to warming waters, drought from ...