PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Gov. Tina Kotek is addressing the public defender shortage crisis by announcing a new interim ...

Despite leadership changes and legislative fixes, Oregon has for years failed to provide attorneys to everyone charged with ...

The university has “implemented measures to prevent a recurrence” of the death at the center of the complaint.

The leader of the Oregon Public Defense Commission was fired and replaced on April 17 by Gov. Tina Kotek amid an ongoing public defender crisis.

Governor Tina Kotek has changed leadership of the Oregon Public Defense Commission. Kotek says it's unacceptable that more than four-thousand defendants in Oregon don't have ...

Oregon Criminal Justice Commission Executive Director Ken Sanchagrin was appointed by the governor as the interim director at ...

Gov. Tina Kotek and Oregon business leaders met on Wednesday for a roundtable discussion on the local impacts of President ...

Jessica Kampfe led the Oregon Public Defense Commission through an overhaul that began in 2023, but has received criticism ...

As we made plans for this issue, it hit us: The future is now. We reached out to the people we spoke to in 2021 — or the ...

As Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek presses Oregon Health & Science University to shutter its primate research center in Hillsboro, the public university argues that closing it down would come at far too great ...

The news came as OHSU has waged a public relations campaign to highlight overcrowding at its facilities, which it says would ...