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The share of Oregon’s workers who are covered by unions declined in 2005, dropping from 15.2% in 2004 to 14.5% last year.

Eighteen tourism-related projects divvied up $100,000 in grants from Travel Oregon.

RV manufacturer Fleetwood, contracted this past fall  for $170 million worth of travel trailers and manufactured homes for Hurricane Katrina victims.

A biomass energy project appears to be coming to fruition at the Collins Company’s Fremont sawmill.

German construction and engineering giant Bilfinger Berger will move the U.S. headquarters of its civil engineering division from Longmont, Colo., to Vancouver, Wash.

Umpqua Holdings Corp. announced the acquisition of several banks.

The poplar plantation seeded by Potlatch Forest Products Corp. along I-84 near Boardman will soon sport an on-site sawmill to manufacture hardwood lumber products.

Accent Optical Technologies may finally get the capital it needs to grow, thanks to a pending buyout by Silcon Valley-based Nanometrics.