Year: 2013

The driver of a motor coach that crashed in Oregon last month, killing nine, had worked in excess of what is allowed, according to the USDOT, which has ordered the Canadian bus company to cease operations in the U.S.

Oregon is experimenting with salting roads along a few state border crossings but it has no plans to apply rock salt to Interstate 84, where a bus crash last month killed nine people. “At some point we have to see that this is costing lives. I’m tired of seeing cars turned upside down on my route,” said Oregon truck driver Larry Phelps.

TriMet General Manager Neil McFarlane has called for an internal audit of overtime hours and promised to make fighting driver fatigue a top priority after an investigation by The Oregonian exposed what he calls “glaring” shortcomings.

The future of foreclosures in Oregon now rests in the hands of the state Supreme Court. The high court this week heard arguments on a pair of cases involving the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, created by lenders to streamline the bundling, buying and selling of mortgages.

OUS officials have found a way to save on employees’ health premiums, but Kitzhaber has told the universities no.

Pamplin Media Group, Oregon’s largest community news organization, has expanded its reach with the acquisition of six weekly newspapers from Eagle Newspapers Inc., a Salem-based company.

Shares in Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc. fell 7.9 percent Tuesday after the Portland-based company reported a $2 million first-quarter loss.