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Based on several metrics, Oregon has one of the lowest performing K-12 education systems in the country. Teacher compensation is part of the problem.

Our intrepid (and expecting) research editor finds the child care search involves long waiting lists, costly fees and no certainty of securing a place before she goes back to work.

The media coverage about Pope Francis must have put me in a Biblical frame of mind. Because after touring the latest phase of the South Waterfront development, a mind-boggling 1.5 million square-feet of office and retail space springing up north of the aerial tram, I couldn’t stop thinking about the massive project as a modern day creation story.

Oregon’s population is booming, and so are rental costs.

The traditional model of sports teams using paid media to get their message across is disappearing as teams look instead to social media to interact with fans.

On September 17, the much anticipated Fed decision was delivered and the equity markets haven’t liked it.

Ahead of the recreational rollout, what are dispensary owners most concerned about ?

The issue of green-washing remains a significant challenge to those of us who would like to see the building sector in this country do more than make unverifiable claims of sustainability. Transparency about the impacts of a given material is the only way to allow designers to make intelligent choices when selecting building products.

Now that Ted Wheeler has thrown his hat into the ring, Portland has a bona fide mayoral race on its hands.

Oregon is set to become a hub of a new type of wooden building design as a southern Oregon timber company becomes the first certified manufacturer of a high-tech wood product, known as cross-laminated timber, or CLT.