The Portland City Council, which crafted the proposal, unanimously referred it to voters in June, after months of painstaking debate over how to land on an increased tax rate that would be palatable ...

Oregon law places a cap on annual rent hikes, but the amount can vary. Next year, it maxes out at 9.5% of your rent, with ...

Oregon wildfires burned 340,000 acres in 2025, down from previous years. However, fires destroyed more than 200 homes and ...

Oregon awards hundreds of millions of dollars in property tax breaks every year, incentives that go overwhelmingly to large tech companies and produce uneven results for the state. Tax incentives for ...

BAKER CITY, Ore. — A Portland area lawmaker who has a key role in writing the state’s budget visited Eastern Oregon in late October to learn about increases this year in fire protection fees, some ...

The Oregon Trail School District is asking voters to approve a $172 million bond to pay for building updates and maintenance ...

This summer, OPB launched a special project: Growing Oregon. It’s a deep dive into the history of Oregon’s unique approach to managing its land and the impact that the growth system has on all of our ...

Approximately 80,000 Oregon homes and other buildings are in areas of high or extreme wildfire risk. That’s according to a new map the Oregon Department of Forestry released Thursday. This means that ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Oregon State Treasury will celebrate National Unclaimed Property Day by holding an online auction of items from abandoned safe deposit boxes received by its unclaimed ...

An Oregon man who bizarrely rigged the home he lost in a lawsuit with an “Indiana Jones” inspired booby trap and other hazards — which hospitalized a federal agent — was found guilty by a jury on ...

Anna Zamarripa has worked for Capital Property Management for six years, keeping track of what each of the company’s 2,100 tenants owe in rent at the dozens of apartment complexes it manages. But ...