Ben Botkin

Bills that would help crime victims, prevent drug overdoses and pay for public defenders await action as the GOP-led walkout continues.

Oregon lawmakers hear preview to the state’s first use-of-force report.

The GOP-led Senate walkout continued on Tuesday, preventing votes on bills for the 15th day.

Kotek met with Republicans and Democrats but neither side reported progress with the GOP-led Senate walkout in its 14th day

Legislation that would fund school literacy, a veterans home and start a pilot program for homeless students remains in limbo amid walkout

One Republican senator filed a pair of workplace complaints Monday over denied requests to be excused from the Senate as a GOP walkout entered its sixth day.

The simmering feud between Oregon Senate Republicans and Democrats continued on Friday, as a Republican-led walkout prevented the upper chamber from meeting and passing bills for the third consecutive day.

Republicans leading the walkout allege that bills fail to follow a readability law.

In Oregon, 16% or nearly 700,000 people have debt that’s been turned over to collections

Oregon lawmakers are considering a proposed constitutional amendment that would ask voters to protect abortion, sexual orientation and gender identity.

Democrats are backing three bills that would establish a waiting period, require serial numbers on guns and raise the minimum age for purchases

The shortage of defense lawyers has deprived hundreds of people of their constitutional right to a speedy trial. While waiting for an attorney, they’ve had to put their lives on hold, while others, perhaps a dozen every month in Multnomah County alone, have had their cases dismissed, including for felonies.