Hillary Borrud

After five years of legal wrangling, Oregon’s foster care system could soon face additional monitoring and forced improvements.

In a deal intended to improve the lives of Oregon foster children, the state and advocates for vulnerable children settled a long-running federal class lawsuit on Thursday over failures in the state foster care system.

| Oregon housing officials have not taken any steps to recoup payments to a company that delivered modular housing for 2020 wildfire survivors

Oregon Department of Justice officials announced Wednesday that they closed their investigation into a former cryptocurrency executive's $500,000

The head of an Oregon-based real estate enterprise that's received more than $70 million in taxpayer funding to house or feed wildfire survivors asylum seekers and others is one of the state's largest tax delinquents.

Oregon's Public Records Advocate Todd Albert will serve four more years in the job, where he is responsible for resolving disputes over access to

| Oregon's rate of positive COVID-19 tests declined in mid-August after peaking in July, but levels of the virus detected in wastewater remained much higher than the national average, new state and federal data show.

A view of the Capitol Mall, stretching north from the Capitol building, in Salem. Michael Lloyd/The Oregonian via TNS, file

| TriMet officials have gone more than four years without knowing how many riders on the system fail to pay fares, a spokesperson said Thursday.

| Oregon's new state dental director Dr. Ahmed Farag will start work Tuesday overseeing the state's oral health care programs, including Medicaid coverage for more than one million Oregonians.