Budget

California lawmakers faced a difficult budget year, but they still managed to put hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks in the state budget to benefit their districts — and help them get re-elected.

Republicans say they’ll insist voters get a say on new taxes in the Oregon transportation bill.

School districts across Oregon are already preparing for multimillion-dollar budget deficits next year. Rare mid-year reductions fueled by federal policy changes could add to that pain.

Even some Democrats are objecting as Kotek runs down the clock on the bill’s opponents.

Each day Kotek waits gives opponents less time to send tax hikes to voters.

This year’s star-crossed special legislative session was the longest — and priciest — in more than a decade.

Oregon’s Democratic members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives voted against a short-term federal spending package.

The proposal from Gov. Tina Kotek will hike gas taxes, registration fees and more.

Oregon, alongside 15 other states and the District of Columbia, sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Friday, alleging HHS threats to pull sexual education funding over curricula mentioning diverse gender identities violate federal law.

A federally funded program that centered on small-scale and socially disadvantaged farmers is coming to an end.

Organizations across Oregon received notice from the U.S. Department of Education that they’d lose hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Gov. Tina Kotek’s proposal to raise billions for road maintenance and public transit in the coming decade advanced by the barest of margins Monday. The tax bill needed help from a moderate Republican to make it over the finish line.