Lauren Dake
Reporter & Producer | OPBLauren Dake is a political reporter and producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting. Before OPB, Lauren spent nearly a decade working as a print reporter. She’s covered politics and rural issues in Oregon and Washington. She’s spent time in a maximum-security prison in Bogota, Colombia (for a story!) and sat in a sweat lodge on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation.
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Election officials are working to ensure Oregonians can still vote if they have been evacuated or lost their home in the fires -
Before being released, the inmates must take a COVID-19 test. Adults in custody who are showing symptoms or who have tested positive will not be released.
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As the number of COVID-19 infections continue to rise, Gov. Kate Brown is once again expanding Oregon’s statewide face mask policy and is ordering all restaurants and bars to close at 10 p.m.
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The Oregon attorney general is asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to block a lower court's order that paves the way for an anti-gerrymandering measure to appear on the November ballot.
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Even before the pandemic, people living with disabilities had to worry their lives could be seen as less valuable by medical professionals who do not know them.
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Oregon has now removed all of the foster youth it sent to for-profit facilities in other states.
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Gov. Kate Brown is calling the Legislature back into special session on June 24 to focus on passing tougher police accountability laws and address some of the issues raised by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Democratic Oregon state lawmakers unveiled a proposal on Monday to consider the release of about 1,975 inmates.
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Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is preparing to release medically vulnerable inmates as the number of incarcerated individuals who have tested positive for coronavirus climbs to more than 160.
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State Sen. Shemia Fagan appears to have won the Democratic primary for secretary of state, Oregon’s second-highest office.
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Gov. Kate Brown announced on Thursday that she plans to lift restrictions on hospitals, allowing them to reopen for non-essential surgical procedures starting next month as long as they reserve enough hospital beds and protective gear — gowns, masks, gloves — for a surge in coronavirus cases.
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Last week, public health officials in Oregon warned they only had a two week supply of protective gear left.
