Chicago investment firm Discovery Group has bought 6.3 percent of McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Inc., a day after Tilman Fertitta announced he’d dropped his tender offer and had entered into a confidentiality agreement with the Portland-based restaurant chain. 

The Environmental Protection Agency and property owners in Portland Harbor continue to pursue building contaminated sediment dumps at the edges of the Willamette River as a way to speed the long-delayed cleanup of Oregon’s largest Superfund site. 

Labor negotiators expected to work late into the night Monday, trying to hammer out a deal between Oregon state government and the top two state workers’ unions.

The 2011 Rogue Valley pear harvest is shaping up to be among the latest on record. It also could be one of the largest in decades.

Third-generation Alaskan Kari Westlund, 49, has become a resident expert on Lane County during the nearly 15 years that she has headed the local convention and visitors bureau.

A study showing Oregonians receiving Medicaid are in better health than uninsured people is garnering national attention.

Precision Castparts in Milwaukie, Rockwell Collins in Wilsonville, and Boeing’s Gresham factory are all supplying parts for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

Nationwide Insurance laid off 90 workers from the company’s northeast Portland offices.