Oregon

Wed May 10, 2017

PacWest Machinery Announces Distribution Agreement with Metso Minerals

PacWest Machinery has announced the signing of a distribution agreement with Metso. “We are delighted to partner with Metso to expand our product line-up to better serve the aggregate processing industries, among others....

Wed May 10, 2017

Oregon Officials Consider Public Ownership of State Forest

The three officials responsible for Oregon's oldest state forest staked out positions on its future, with two advocating continued public ownership and the third supporting public ownership of its old-growth areas....

Cindy Riley - Wed May 10, 2017

Portland Water Spends $190M to Preserve Reservoir

In Oregon, an eight-year capital improvement project to update the Washington Park reservoir site is moving forward. The Portland Water Bureau is overseeing efforts to preserve the historic drinking water function and protect the area from the potentially catastrophic effects of a natural disaster....

Mon April 17, 2017

Reports: Oregon's Roads, Bridges Key to Economy

Oregon's transportation system is critical to the economy: one in five jobs in the state is transportation and trade-related, and as a trade-dependent state it relies heavily on exports from farms, forests and factories to support jobs....

Joe Douglass -KATU News - Fri March 31, 2017

State Website Cracks Down on Illegal Contractors

"We've got some very bad boys out there that the public needs to know about," Stan Jessup, enforcement program manager for Oregon's Construction Contractors Board (CCB), told KATU on Thursday. Jessup was talking about a new website from CCB that lists unlicensed contractors who have racked up tens of thousands of dollars in fines along with photos of them....

Mon March 20, 2017

79th Annual Oregon Logging Conference Bigger, Better Than Ever

More than 6,000 industry professionals from 37 U.S. states, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Japan, New Zealand, Russia and Sweden attended the 79th Annual Oregon Logging Conference (OLC), held Feb....

Lori Tobias - Mon March 20, 2017

ODOT Responds to Rock Slide on Highway 101

When word of a slide came in the wee hours of Feb. 22 on one of the most scenic portions of Oregon's Highway 101, the Oregon Department of Transportation was quick to send out a crew, but work on the slide would have to wait....

Conor Ryan of PV Tech - Tue February 28, 2017

State Governor Backs Massive Solar Plant Project

SunPower announced Monday that construction has started on the 56MW Gala Solar Power Plant in Crook County, Oregon. The installation, which is expected to be the state's largest operating solar power plant when it is completed by the end of 2017, is expected to generate around 300 jobs during peak construction....

Ted Sickinger - The Oregonian - OregonLive - Mon February 20, 2017

Debate Emerges Over What Replaces Boardman Coal Plant

Portland General Electric's agreement to close its only coal-fired power plant won praise seven years ago as an environmental victory with national implications in the fight against air pollution and climate change....

Mon January 23, 2017

Merv George Jr. Selected as Keynote Speaker at 79th Oregon Logging Conference

Jeff Wimer, Oregon Logging Conference president, has selected Merv George Jr., the forest supervisor of Six Rivers National Forest in northern California, as keynote speaker at the 79th Annual OLC. The keynote address will be presented on Feb....