Oregon Business Team Intel VP Renee James used the podium at today’s Portland Business Alliance annual meeting to advocate for investment in education in order to compete globally for the need for skilled workers. Oregon is 49th among states for college enrollment.
Google says it will be expanding its renewable energy portfolio by investing $100 million in the mega wind farm project Shepherds Flat.
The Portland metro region’s 9.1 percent seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in March– about half of a full point below February’s — is one of the latest signals that an economic recovery is under way, an Oregon economist says.
The Lake Oswego City Council is scheduled to vote tonight on whether it should get on board or try to derail plans to extend a Portland streetcar line to the city.
Paul Allen said that when he began writing his life story he didn’t know if he would live long enough to finish it.
Oregon’s Housing and Community Services has begun making mortgage payments on behalf of distressed homeowners through the Oregon Homeownership Stabilization Initiative’s Mortgage Payment Assistance program.
Homeowners associations all over Oregon are being forced to sue members for unpaid association fees, brought on by the down economy.
Facebook leaders, including founder and CEO Mark Zuckerburg, gathered in Prineville to celebrate the new data center’s opening.
The Lake Oswego and Portland city councils are set to vote this week on the controversial proposed streetcar line connecting the two cities.
Farmer and entrepreneur Tom Hunton launched the Camas Country Mill in north Eugene, the area’s first commercial grist mill since the Great Depression.