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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State Sen. Shemia Fagan appears to have won the Democratic primary for secretary of state, Oregon’s second-highest office. -
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.
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Gov. Kate Brown announced on Tuesday she is restricting visitors at all nursing and residential care facilities, adult foster homes and group homes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in her latest efforts to stem the spread of coronavirus.
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Gov. Kate Brown is weighing closing bars and restaurants, but stopped short on a call with reporters Sunday night from announcing a closure.
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Gov. Kate Brown has announced that all K-12 schools in the state of Oregon will be closed Monday through the end of March.
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The top Republican in the Oregon Senate, who led his colleagues on three walkouts to protest a plan to fight climate change, won't seek re-election.
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In the upcoming months, both Republicans and Democrats will be jockeying to control the narrative about the walkout before the upcoming 2020 elections.
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The 2020 Oregon legislative session is effectively over, with very little show after an acrimonious dispute between lawmakers.
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The impasse between Oregon's Democrats and Republicans over a sweeping climate change bill continued Monday, stretching into the sixth day in the Senate and the fifth day in the House, and threatened to derail the rest of the legislative session.
