Bicycle and pedestrian improvements top the list of proposals to spend $42 million Oregon lawmakers approved this year for transportation projects beyond the usual highway and bridge work. In all, the Oregon Department of Transportation received 108 proposals totaling $129 million – about  [...]

Cover Oregon director Rocky King steps down for medical leave as exchange claims first enrollees. Rocky King, director of Oregon's non-working health insurance exchange, stepped down Monday to take medical leave and may not return. King's departure, announced at a Cover Oregon board meetin [...]

Andrew Kimbrell makes many misstatements in his letter "Our GM Food Fears Aren't Irrational" (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304527504579167700690265822) (Nov. 9): "The vast majority of GE crops are developed to resist and therefore promote pesticides, sharply increasin [...]

Medford Police Chief Tim George called this morning's propane-tank bomb at the Jackson County District Attorney's Office an act of domestic terrorism. He said Oregon State Police and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are helping Medford police investigate. Twenty-five peopl [...]