Federal regulators rule in favor of Northwest wind power generators who objected to being ordered to shut down this spring when the Columbia River hydropower dams were running at maximum capacity.

Approximately $100 million is being invested in a partnership between OSU and the Iraqi government to bring hundreds of engineers to Corvallis and possibly send Oregon contractors to the Middle East.

The Oregon Supreme Court will decide whether the state will get a chance to recoup $10 million lost by the public-pension fund after it bought stocks from one of the largest providers of insurance and brokerage services.

Master bladesmith Murray Carter is a 17th-generation Yoshimoto bladesmith, one of a handful of people who can officially trace the lineage of their training back to one of the traditional bladesmithing families of feudal Japan.

Portlanders pay a steep price in the nation’s toughest rental market. Only 3 percent of apartments here are vacant at any given time—half as many as were available three years ago.

Portland-area incomes fell faster and farther during the recession than national per capita income. Incomes here continue to lag the national average as well as similar cities.

PacifiCorp’s multibillion-dollar plan to meet customers’ energy needs over the next two decades has hit a serious roadblock.

Real estate transactions in Jackson County are running nearly even with last year, but prices continued to edge downward during the last three months.