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

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

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

Makary, who reports to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, has been a vocal critic of the medical ...

Governor Tina Kotek has appointed Ken Sanchagrin as the interim head of the Oregon Public Defense Commission to address the ...

Gov. Kotek visited Harney County to assess the damage from historic flooding and pledged an initial $40,000 to cover landfill ...

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 ...

Recently, a neighbor who supported the campaign to close the research center told me that early safety studies should be ...

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 ...

The executive director of one of Oregon’s largest unions says Gov. Tina Kotek caught him and other labor leaders by surprise ...