Budget

As Oregon lawmakers prepare to return for a special session focused on transportation, high-profile projects are on the back burner.

National research laboratories in Oregon, Washington and Colorado focused on addressing climate change and its impacts and improving energy efficiency and affordability would be gutted under proposed Republican budgets.

SOU has suffered a series of financial crises in recent years. This latest is a collision of multiple factors, including what President Rick Bailey calls inadequate state support and Trump administration actions that will slash funding for students.

Lawmakers will reconvene in August to try to avoid mass layoffs at transportation agencies. As wildfires sweep the state, the stakes are particularly high.

During his first visit to his district since voting for federal budget cuts, the state’s lone Republican congressperson spoke of his “incredible power” to influence national policy.

Planned Parenthood clinics in southwestern Oregon are bracing themselves for closure.

Small NPR and PBS stations in California are teetering after Congress pulled funding from public broadcasting. Even big stations are bracing for cuts.

A new school year is coming up quick, and some districts say their financial situation is shaky in the face of federal cuts.

Gov. Tina Kotek said Wednesday she has a recipe to successfully divert mass layoffs at the state’s transportation agency — and it doesn’t look too different from a plan lawmakers failed to pass last month.

The GOP budget bill made significant changes to Covered California, which experts and insurers say will increase out-of-pocket costs for consumers.

The governor’s announcement offered only hints of what a plan to fund roads might look like.

President Trump cut AmeriCorps, laying off over 5,600 of California’s public service workers. Because of a lawsuit, the state’s program can restart, at least temporarily, but schools and disaster relief sites are still reeling from staffing shortages.