The Portland metropolitan region’s health care industry expects to add over 17,000 jobs in the next five years.

The Office of the Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency has recommended the agency get $9 million in stimulus back from a Engene nonprofit that planned to upgrade trucks with clean diesel technology.

Oregon State University scientists landed a $2 million grant to study algae with the potential to make biofuel.

FedEx says the global economy is worsening, and cut its forecast again.

Cottage Grove-based Territorial Seed Co. is growing steadily as the weak economy has prompted more people to try growing and preserving their own food.

Some Oregon activists are observing the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street.

Nurses at the Salem and Portland Oregon State Hospital campuses are asking lawmakers for more help with the mentally ill.

Despite finishing a three-year plan to become self-sufficient, Albany’s food service program continues to run in the red.

The Portland Seed Fund is halfway through its $3 million funding round, and already plans a second $5 million round.