California lawmakers are proposing a bill that would allow local governments to create hospitality zones allowing bars and restaurants to stay open until 4 a.m. starting January 1st, 2026.

The stock price of Beaverton-based Nike, dropped sharply in response to the news that tariffs against Vietnam would rise 46%. Vietnam produces half of Nike footwear.

With salmon fishing barred off the California coast for two years, fishermen have been running historic boat tours, party cruises, and scattering the ashes of the deceased to try to stay afloat. Now, fishing fleets are gearing up for a third year.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday slapped 25% across-the-board tariffs on imported goods from Canada and Mexico – our nation’s largest trading partner. Chinese goods entering the U.S. face an additional 10% tariff. That’s got Oregon food and agriculture leaders worried that retaliatory tariffs will hurt Oregon farmers.

California is rolling back its more flexible work-from-home policies that began with the pandemic.

Humboldt County is getting around to enforcing a cannabis growing tax passed in 2016. Many farmers aren’t ready.

California’s small businesses create the bulk of jobs in the state. Trump’s funding freeze, anti-DEI push and more could jeopardize that.

Thousands of employees with the U.S. Forest Service were fired over the weekend, including some in Southern Oregon and Northern California.

Non-logging forestry work, like planting trees or fuels reduction, is big business in Oregon. But if you’re picturing those doing this work as classic lumberjacks — plaid shirts, big beards, white guys — think again. Foreign guest workers make up much of this labor. And Jackson County is a national center for the industry.

Threats of tariffs on major trading partners point to a chaotic global market for the foreseeable future.

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.