Mike Rogoway

1 day ago | oregonlive.com | Mike Rogoway

Amazon’s enormous new warehouse in Woodburn has 30 miles of conveyors, 6,000 robots and 1,500 employees working to keep the $500 million facility humming around the clock. All those elements are designed to work in constant harmony, according to the warehouse’s general manager, Christophe Buzit. But with so many moving parts, it’s easy for something to go awry — especially in a brand-new warehouse that’s three times bigger than Portland’s Lloyd Center mall.

3 days ago | oregonlive.com | Mike Rogoway

Owens Corning plans to close a door components factory in Prineville, laying off all 184 employees beginning on Aug. 25. It’s the latest in a series of shutdowns and layoffs at Oregon factories, which have produced a sharp decline in manufacturing employment. Formerly owned by Contact Industries, the Prineville site has cycled through a succession of owners in recent years. Ohio-based Owens Corning acquired the plant as part of its $3.9 billion purchase of Masonite International last year.

3 days ago | oregonlive.com | Mike Rogoway

The Portland Tribune and two sister papers in Milwaukie and Oregon City plan to cease their print editions, according to the papers’ parent company, Carpenter Media. A third paper, the Gresham Outlook, will shift from two print editions a week to one. All four will continue publishing online. The print cutbacks follow layoffs last week that eliminated a half-dozen jobs in Carpenter’s local newsrooms, including six journalists at the Portland Tribune.

3 days ago | oregonlive.com | Mike Rogoway

Intel will shut down its small automotive business and lay off the majority of the workers in that segment, the latest step in the chipmaker’s dramatic downsizing. “Intel plans to wind down the Intel architecture automotive business,” the company told employees Tuesday morning in a message viewed by The Oregonian/OregonLive. The company said it will fulfill existing commitments to customers but will lay off “most” employees working in Intel’s automotive group.

5 days ago | oregonlive.com | Mike Rogoway

Oregon Tesla sales are down 17% this yearOregon car buyers appear to be tuning out Tesla. New Tesla registrations fell 17% through the first five months of the year compared to the same period in 2024, according to data from the Oregon Department of Transportation. Teslas accounted for nearly half of all Oregon electric car sales as recently as 2023. Now, Teslas represent just 1 in 6 new electric vehicles in Oregon. The rapid reversal mirrors a broader trend.