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A bill at the Oregon Legislature would make Oregon the first state to allow wine drinkers to fill up growlers at restaurants and stores.

A Crook County middle school teacher is launching a KidWind Challenge, using a grant from Facebook to help students design and build wind turbines.

Economists told Oregon lawmakers that state revenues are expected to come in $162 million higher in the current biennium, in part because tax hikes on the wealthy spurred a last minute sell-off of assets.

Large solar arrays are vanishing in Oregon along with the lower incentives now offered for them.

Portland startups and software businesses are having a hard time finding employees in the increasingly competitive hiring market.

Consumers benefit more than biotech companies from the technology of transgenic crops, according to an agribusiness professor at a lecture sponsored by Oregon State University.

Oregon’s new rule allowing canola production in the Willamette Valley will be under fire in the legislature this session.

Federal officials visited Beaverton in the first of 100 visits to cities as part of a White House program to support urban revitalization.

Despite seeing 144 to 166 days of rain a year, the Willamette Valley is positioning itself as a solar power hotbed.

Hillsboro is fast-tracking plans to make 330 acres of farm land ready to become an industrial area.