In states without policies to drive renewable energy, power prices could surge as federal tax incentives for clean energy ...

President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" cuts social safety net programs like SNAP to rein in government spending.

A Portland-area mother and her four U.S.-born children have been detained by federal immigration officials for two weeks, an ...

Small hospitals in Washington state are facing a difficult economic future. Their finances will likely become worse because ...

Large companies will start paying into a program to expand and unify Oregon's recycling system, helping more cities offer ...

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Those are the loans that allow shoppers, usually online, to break up a purchase into installments — a way to pay that’s ...

The proposed budget bill would increase logging on federal lands, but most of that money won't go to Oregon counties that ...

Jule Gilfillan is a writer and producer for OPB's science and environment series “Oregon Field Guide.” Since coming to OPB in 2010, she has received many honors, including Society of ...

Sen. Mark Meek, D-Gladstone, says he plans to vote no on the transportation bill. “I just think we’re crossing the lines of what Oregonians are expecting of us," he said in an interview with ...

Under the Trump Adminstration's One Big Beautiful Bill, Oregon could lose about 4 gigawatts of planned wind and solar energy, or enough energy to power one million homes.

Jenn Chávez is a podcast host and producer with Oregon Public Broadcasting. Jenn has been making audio in Portland for over a decade, as both a community media and public media journalist. For ...