Lucille McNamara

Oregon lawmakers are creating legislation to protect residential consumers from the growing cost of supplying power-hungry high-tech data centers. Electricity Consumption Expected to Reach Unprecedented Levels Electricity…

The Oregon Metro Government budget for homeless services in Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington counties has been slashed by $51 million for the current fiscal year. The Supportive Housing Services (SHS) tax was introduced in 2020 to…

The physician, who operated on John Michael Murdoch at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) whose face caught alight after alcohol swabbed on his face did not dry before surgery, had his medical license switched to ‘lapsed’…

MEDFORD, Ore. — Oregon Governor Tina Kotek and Senator Ron Wyden have thrown their weight behind the massive nurses' strike that began this morning after months of failed negotiations for better pay and working conditions at Providence…

A woman who smuggled drugs into a Sheridan federal prison containing a substance 20 to 50 times more potent than morphine was sentenced yesterday to two-and-a-half years behind bars. Robynn Regina Cunningham (52) smuggled Suboxone,…

Oregon is losing two Macy’s stores and a branch of Kohl’s this year. Macy’s in Hillsboro and Salem Will Close The two Macy’s stores closing doors are The Streets of Tanasbourne at 2055 NE Allie Avenue in Hillsboro and the Salem…

Oregon State Forester Cal Mukumoto has resigned from his $237,288 post amid budgetary criticism and allegations of mismanagement. His resignation, effective from January 23, was announced by Jim Kelly, chair of the Board of Forestry…

Convicted murderer Mark J. Wilson has been released to supervision in Multnomah County after serving 35 years for his role in the notorious killing of a Terrebonne couple in 1987. Wilson (55) walked out free from an Oregon prison…

Portland public middle and high school students will no longer be able to use cell phones or smartwatches during school hours. The blanket ban applies to passing periods and lunch breaks and was approved 5 – 2 on Tuesday by school board…

The Oregon Department of Justice (DOJ) has criticized the Portland Police Bureau for the protracted delay of investigations into the improper use of force by officers during the city’s racial unrest protests in 2020. Police…