The Legislature ended its session Friday without fulfilling an $18.5 million request from organizations that support victims ...

Oregon Rep. Cliff Bentz voted for the version of the reconciliation bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in May, ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Oregon Republican state Sen. Tim Knopp about GOP senators walking out of the state Capitol, and going in to hiding to protest a climate bill.

The One Big Beautiful Bill is now awaiting President Donald Trump's signature after the U.S. House approved it. Here's what ...

Oregon lawmakers passed an oral nicotine tax to pay for some wildfire costs, while a bill aimed at getting wildfire survivors ...

A group of Republican state senators in Oregon remain in hiding after walking out of the state Capitol over refusing to vote on a climate change bill.. Eleven Republicans refused to show up to ...

Several Republican state senators in Oregon have accumulated a large number of absences during a six-week walkout aimed at halting legislative progress on bills regarding abortion rights and gun ...

Oregon state senators who walked out this year are making reelection plans. By Dirk VanderHart (OPB) July 6, 2023 10:29 p.m. A ballot measure passed last year was supposed to block 10 conservative ...

Hundreds of bills awaiting action in the Oregon Senate are held in a bookshelf on May 23, 2023, as a boycott led by the state’s Republican senators continues to derail legislative progress. (AP ...

That has opened the door for two established Oregon state senators to run to replace him as treasurer: Democrat Elizabeth Steiner and Republican Brian Boquist. June 26, 2025.

Oregon Senate Republican Leader Sen. Tim Knopp listens during a news conference as part of a 2024 legislative preview at the State Library on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, in Salem, Ore.

The Oregon Supreme Court said Thursday that 10 Republican state senators who staged a record-long walkout last year to stall bills on abortion, transgender health care and gun rights cannot run ...