Ground Floor host Cynthia Scherr interviews Michael Sorenson

Since the 1970s, billions of dollars in federal contracts have gone to forestry work like replanting trees or fuels reduction. Oregon has long been a center for businesses getting those contracts. But that industry looked a lot different 50 years ago.

Thousands of nurses at Oregon’s Providence hospitals are heading into their second week of a walk-out. Negotiations over a new contract are going slowly and Providence says it's "prepared for a lengthy strike."

One of the world’s largest commercial truck manufacturers is refusing to sell its diesel big rigs in Oregon, even though its North America headquarters is in Portland.

Oregon’s Providence hospitals and nearly 5,000 of its workers have yet to agree on terms to bump wages and address staffing shortages.

Robert Hammer of Homeland Security Investigations talks to JPR's Roman Battaglia about the agency's work to bust human trafficking in illegal cannabis operations in Oregon and across the Pacific Northwest.

Rates that new employers will pay for unemployment insurance in the coming year will be 2.4% on up to $54,300 in wages per employee.

A deadline for a new federal requirement affecting small businesses is coming up, but litigation and education efforts have caused confusion, especially for owners in Spanish-speaking communities.

The proposed $24.6 billion merger between supermarket giants Kroger and Albertsons floundered on Tuesday after judges overseeing two separate cases both halted the merger

A former worker has sued several Rogue Valley forestry companies, claiming they didn’t provide adequate training or medical care.

Benjamin Lorr explored the food supply chain in his book The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket.

Oregon Youth Employee Safety is conducting an open contest for high school students to compete for cash prizes.