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Portland-area home prices rose 3.3% in June compared with June 2011.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Oregon rural development office is providing a grant to help a Central Oregon electric vehicle manufacturer.

U.S. job openings rose to 3.6 million in May, but layoffs also increased.

Oregon Health & Science University has proposed to stop paying its employees’ 6% contribution to the Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund.

Several UO faculty and graduate students contributed to the discovery of the elusive Higgs boson.

Spending by sponsors to qualify the eight initiatives pending for the November statewide ballot topped $4 million.

The Holstein and Brown Swiss cows at the family-owned and operated Van Loon Dairy near Jefferson rest on waterbeds instead of wood chips or straw.

The Salem City Council is scheduled to vote whether to change 56 acres of Mill Creek Urban Renewal Area to an enterprise zone.

Commercial Dehydrator Systems of Eugene has been around since 1911 and is currently growing.

President Barack Obama proposed a one-year extension of Bush-era tax cuts for families earning less than $250,000 a year.