Courtney Sherwood

1 week ago | ijpr.org | Courtney Sherwood

The closure will mark the continued retreat from Southern Oregon of a door-and-window-making business that once had a major presence in the region. Jeld-Wen was founded in Klamath Falls in 1960, and by the late ‘80s it was one of Oregon’s largest private companies. But after the housing market crashed in the late 2000s, Jeld-Wen changed ownership. It later became publicly traded and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2017.

1 week ago | opb.org | Courtney Sherwood

Undated photo of a Jeld-Wen employee manufacturing windows at the company's plant. Jeld-Wen will be closing its Chiloquin door-making factory and laying off all 128 people who work there by the end of the year, according to a notice filed with Oregon officials earlier this week. The closure will mark the continued retreat from Southern Oregon of a door-and-window-making business that once had a major presence in the region.

1 month ago | opb.org | Courtney Sherwood

The ongoing fight over a proposed upgrade to the electrical grid in Northwest Portland’s Forest Park has entered another round. Portland General Electric’s Harborton Reliability Project could remove about 400 mature trees to upgrade one transmission line and build a stretch of new line. That work would happen on 5 acres of parkland in an area that’s had some transmission lines since before the park was founded.

1 month ago | opb.org | Courtney Sherwood

The Oregon Employment Department has discovered errors on about 12,000 of the 1099-G tax forms it sent out — affecting about 5% of the people who got jobless benefits in 2024. To see if you’re one of the people affected by the error, you can check your account using the state’s Francis Online benefits system. You can find corrected tax forms there if you were affected. The state also started sending corrected tax forms by mail this week.

1 month ago | opb.org | Courtney Sherwood

The Trump administration appears to have frozen at least $40 million in federal payments for Oregon-based urban tree canopy programs, as part of a broader push by the president to cut support for programs related to climate change. The cuts, first reported by Inside Climate News, come out of $58 million in grants awarded to nonprofits and governments across the state through the Inflation Reduction Act. FILE - In this photo from 2018, urban forestry staff are shown pruning city trees in Eugene.