Oregon Business Team Through nearly five decades in public office, Mark Hatfield was both Oregon’s most durable politician and — after his rise to the chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee in 1981 — its most important.
A decade after many predicted a wave of high-tech rural entrepreneurs, much of rural Oregon is still waiting for those jobs to show up.
Even though Ted Wheeler has huge name recognition and ambition, it looks like running for mayor of Portland isn’t in the future.
One casualty of the coming federal budget crunch could be a new $3 billion bridge carrying Interstate 5 across the Columbia River.
What began as a loosely knit gang of idealistic carpenters, designers and architects working in relative obscurity in Eugene has become a multimillion dollar niche market. But the local green construction market is still seeing mixed success.
A new study documents that Northwest forests soak up significant amounts of greenhouse gases when left unharvested.
The troubled town of Oakridge will need to take out a $500,000 loan to pay its bills.
Financial planners say the plummeting stock market is just another market swing – albeit a rather large one.
The Greenbrier Cos. have landed orders for 3,700 railcars worth about $285 million as the freight industry shifts to double-stack trains.
Russian-owned Evraz Inc. is planning to more than double its pipe production in North Portland to supply the oil industry.