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Morgan Barnaby/OPBAs Gov. Tina Kotek pledges to boost business, competing factions are offering ideas for where she should look. -
Fred Greaves/CalMattersEven after Rep. Eric Swalwell’s swift and sudden exit, the race for governor is still frustratingly murky on the Democratic side, with seven major candidates splitting the vote. As party faithful hope for divine intervention, heavyweights like the speaker emerita and the current governor refuse to weigh in.
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The May 19 primary will determine who will face off in the November general election. -
Regulators will allow Chinook salmon fishing along California’s coast for the first time in three years, but restrictions remain in areas of Northern California. -
The first debate between the candidates is scheduled for Thursday. -
Swalwell said he would step down from the office he’s held since 2013 but continued to deny the allegations against him by four separate women. -
President Donald Trump approved a disaster declaration for Oregon following winter storms that brought record rainfall and caused flooding, landslides and mudslides in eight counties. -
Many ski resorts across the West have been forced to close early this year. An unseasonably warm winter has led to one of Oregon’s worst snow seasons on record. -
The California Republican Party failed to endorse a candidate for governor, demonstrating that Trump’s influence only goes so far in California, even among his party’s most faithful. -
In most places, a county clerk race draws little attention. In Shasta County, it’s become a referendum on how elections should be conducted. -
Three years of cancelled salmon seasons have devastated the industry. Now, salmon fishing is expected to finally reopen. Will it be enough for the industry to survive? -
Oregon is the first state to require nonprofit hospitals to figure out if a patient qualifies for free or discounted care before billing them. But a law recently signed by the governor cut hospitals a big break on that rule. -
Fellow Democratic candidates are calling on Swalwell to drop out of the race for California governor as major organizations are reviewing their endorsements of him following a report in the San Francisco Chronicle alleging he assaulted a former staffer. Swalwell denied the allegations. -
The incumbent, Lynn Coker, is facing two challengers: Jeremy Dumire and Jeff Schoonover.
