Knife River construction backlog means busy summer
A wet spring kept Knife River Materials crews from paving roads until July, so now the company has many months worth of work lined up in Southern Oregon.
Willamette Valley
Firm nips noise complaints
Caithness Energy is offering Eastern Oregon residents $5,000 if they promise not to complain about turbine noise.
Temps sue Safeway
A dozen workers hired by Aptitude temp agency say they haven’t been paid for months of work at Safeway in Clackamas.
Oregon bridges deficient
A study by the Oregon Department of Transportation cites 1,665 bridges as functionally obsolete or structurally deficient.
Elemental gets VC boost
Portland’s video processing startup Elemental Technologies wins $7.5 million in venture capital from The Walt Disney Co.’s Steamboat Ventures.
“Office” star sues PDX startup
Rainn Wilson responds to a suit against him by counter-suing Think Brilliant.
Merkley calls for small business credit
Senator Jeff Merkley calls for $30 billion to be loaned to small businesses.