Bikes contribute $400M to Oregon tourism
Recreational bicycle travel contributes $400 million of Oregon’s annual $9 billion tourism industry.
TriMet machines froze thousands of credit cards
TriMet says a programming bug on its end erroneously marked 2,500 card transactions a month for fraud.
PGE breaks ground on natural gas plant
Portland General Electric Co. broke ground on a new natural gas plant outside of Clatskanie.
Oregon incentive data incomplete
Oregon officials have filed only six of 18 required reports on $665 million in subsidies.
Oregon outpaces other states in clean jobs
Oregon ranked highest on a recent Clean Jobs Index.
Shrimping increases in Oregon
Shrimp is the second-largest fishery in Oregon, growing rapidly in the last few decades.
Oregon ranks as worst state to retire in
A recent study of the best U.S. states to retire in, counting Washington D.C., ranked Oregon worst in 51st place.
Ruby Receptionists expands to Beaverton
Portland-based Ruby Receptionists is opening a new Beaverton office, where the company plans to employ 174 people by 2015.
Stephen Hawking backs boycott of Israeli academics
CBSnews.com: British physicist Stephen Hawking has dropped plans to attend a major international conference in Israel in June.
Cyber-thieves commit ‘biggest bank heist in history’
Reuters: The U.S. government charged eight individuals with stealing debit card data from two Middle Eastern banks in a scheme that prosecutors said netted $45 million in a matter of hours.