Oregon Capital Chronicle is part of States Newsroom, a network of news bureaus supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501(c)(3) public charity. Oregon Capital Chronicle maintains editorial ...

Sen. Daniel Bonham, R-The Dalles, works on the Senate floor on Thursday, June 26, 2025. (Photo by Laura Tesler/ Oregon Capital Chronicle) The Trump administration has tapped a former Oregon Senate ...

Miners, their supporters and medical experts rallied in Washington, calling on the Trump administration to enforce black lung protections. Outside of the Department of Labor on Tuesday morning, ...

Gov. Kotek, AG Rayfield and Portland Mayor Keith Wilson held a news conference on Sunday to announce the lawsuit and counter President Trump’s characterization of Portland. “To bring this narrative to ...

The Department of Labor (DOL) announced this week it will pause operations at Job Corps centers nationwide, a move that has already gotten pushback from both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill. The ...

U.S. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer discusses Fed rate cuts and reacts to a judge temporarily blocking President Donald Trump’s plan to lay off thousands of federal workers on 'Mornings with ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — It seems like only yesterday that Congresswoman Janelle Bynum (D-Ore.) flipped Oregon’s 5th Congressional District in 2024, defeating now-Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer.

Daniel Bonham, the former state Republican Senate leader from The Dalles, could be headed to work for the U.S. Department of Labor. A U.S. Senate calendar lists Bonham as a nominee for the job of ...

Vice President J.D. Vance commented on a ProPublica report that three Trump cabinet members have multiple primary residence mortgages, which ABC's "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos suggested is ...