Affordable homes, good schools, cheap liquor licenses and funky neighborhoods are the ingredients for the city’s booming restaurant industry.

Traffic-choked Newberg and Dundee are seizing on new possibilities for their futures as a hard-won bypass finally becomes a reality.

Post recession, Oregon’s construction and building industry is a tentative mix of highs and lows.

Feeney Wireless is one of the fastest-growing companies in the booming wireless mobile and “machine-to-machine” market.

If Doug Hoschek can’t get REI to consider carrying a line of sleeping bags, then probably no one can.

Oregonians who don’t want to join either the Democratic or Republican party have increased dramatically since the last presidential election.

In August 2011, Sean Robbins became chief executive of Greater Portland Inc., a public-private partnership focused on increasing the vitality of the Portland-Vancouver region.

Ben West was working for a trucking company in Tennessee, “getting good raises and good bonuses,” when he realized the work wasn’t making him feel good about what he was doing.

The business community is in a decidedly more optimistic frame of mind in this year’s polling on business mood.

There’s an old reporter’s adage about our business: The definition of news is what your editors see on their way to work.