Kaylee Tornay
Investigative Reporter | InvestigateWestKaylee Tornay has been documenting stories in Oregon and California since her high school journalism days in Bend, Oregon, covering the progress of the water polo team. A graduate of the University of Oregon, she braved the rains of Eugene with her notebook before moving on to cover wildfire mitigation and dangerous highways in the forests and vineyards of Southern Oregon and Sonoma County. She has won regional awards for her work watchdogging public and private schools’ efficacy in meeting student needs, from safety to mental health support to instruction.
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Records allege ‘racist environment’ and deep divisions over child care governance. -
House Bill 4004 aims to fix a loophole the state’s labor law that gives bad actors a competitive edge and can make the state an attractive place to break child labor laws. -
Employers in industries with more undocumented and low-wage workers left the most wages and penalties unpaid. -
Aalthough Oregon has invested tens of millions of dollars into expanding preschool and child care since 2019, that money has done little to improve access to infant and toddler care in some areas where it’s needed most. -
Since it was implemented 14 years ago, Oregon’s prescription drug monitoring program has lagged behind other states in terms of the type of data captured, who has access to it and how it's being used. -
Bills in Oregon and Washington seek to limit the industry’s ability to undermine clean air targets. -
CenturyLink customers in Seattle and Portland receive wide-ranging levels of service for the same price, with poorer residents and people of color more likely to be burdened by slow speeds, according to a new analysis of digital inequities in U.S. cities. -
Homeless students can get assistance from their schools, but unless they’re identified, they get none. -
The need for food assistance is at a near-record high in Oregon, and food bank managers are sounding the alarms about rising hunger across the state.
