Northwest Observer State Representative Christine Goodwin (R-Canyonville) announced her decision to run for the Republican nomination for the Oregon State Senate. Oregon...
Northwest Observer Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has announced that she has appointed Mike Reese to head the Oregon Department of...
Northwest Observer In a recently resurfaced video of a Congressional hearing, newly elected US House Speaker Mike Johnson objected to...
Northwest Observer The Oregon Secretary of State completed a Request for Proposals seeking the development of software to “identify and mitigate harmful...
Northwest Observer Bruce Starr, a current city councilor and former State Senator, filed and announced that he is running again...
Northwest Observer Through Measure 110, Oregon was the first state in the nation to decriminalize possession of drugs such as...
Northwest Observer Douglas County Clerk Dan Loomis has denied six “Prospective Initiative Petitions” that would allow petitioners to have the...
Northwest Observer The Oregon Legislature has now convened a Measure 110 bipartisan workgroup to try to figure out how to...
Northwest Observer After pulling the item off last month’s meeting agenda following backlash from parents, the Oregon State Board of...
Northwest Observer Senator David Brock Smith (R-Port Orford) has joined Representative E. Werner Reschke in calling for a Special Legislative...
Northwest Observer The Willamette National Forest will begin much-needed road reconstruction projects this month to remove hazards and repair portions of the...
Northwest Observer In November 2020, Oregon voters passed Measure 110, the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act of 2020, to...
Northwest Observer In the wake of Representative Reschke (R-Crater Lake) urging Oregon Governor Kotek to call a special session to...
Northwest Observer Umpqua National Forest is seeking applicants to fill 15 positions on the Rogue-Umpqua Resource Advisory Committee (RAC). As reauthorized under...
Northwest Observer Amidst declining gas tax revenues, the Oregon Transportation Commission -- the policy setting board for the Oregon Department...
Northwest Observer Five people were arrested in the Portland metro area on Wednesday in a large-scale drug and gun bust...
Northwest Observer The Oregon Department of Transportation has now announced that customers can take their DMV knowledge test anywhere that...
Northwest Observer What could be the largest lithium deposit in the world may pit one camp of environmentalists against others...
Northwest Observer Going into an election year, the conversation is all about uniting – uniting the party, uniting the country,...
Northwest Observer Oregon’s drug decriminalization experiment known as Ballot Measure 110, passed by the voters in 2020, has failed to...
Northwest Observer Oregon Democrats are crowing about making attending college easier and more affordable for Oregonians, but the reality may...
Northwest Observer Representative Jeff Helfrich (R-Hood River) was selected by House Republicans to serve as their new Leader. Also elected...
Northwest Observer Oregon Governor Tina Kotek and Portland Central City Task Force Co-Chair Dan McMillan, president and CEO of The...
Northwest Observer SDA Forest Service is to spend more than $1 billion in nearly 400 grant awards nationwide. They say...
Northwest Observer The Oregon Government Ethics Commission has now issued its opinion on school board stipends and it has apparently...
