Oregon Capital Chronicle

The Oregon Capital Chronicle is a nonprofit news organization that started in 2021. Our mission is to provide thorough and informative reporting on the state government, politics, and policy in Oregon. With a team of skilled journalists, we aim to help our readers grasp how government officials are using their power, what is happening with taxpayer money, and how citizens can become more involved in important decisions.

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Measure expanding foster youth rights passes Oregon Senate again, overriding Kotek veto

2 days ago | oregoncapitalchronicle.com | Shaanth Nanguneri

Oregon senators rebuked Gov. Tina Kotek on Wednesday, voting overwhelmingly to override her veto of a bill that would strengthen and expand protections for Oregon’s foster youth.
Oregon Senate OKs bill to strengthen care facility investigations, oversight

4 days ago | oregoncapitalchronicle.com | Shaanth Nanguneri

Patients wandering the halls. Waste and fecal matter on the floor. Exit doors left open without any employees on duty for supervision. Stories like these took center stage in the Oregon Senate on Monday, when lawmakers overwhelmingly passed Senate Bill 739, a bill that aims to enact stricter oversight for Oregon’s long-term and memory care facilities.
River of No Return: How the Nez Perce Tribe stepped in to save wolf reintroduction in Idaho

6 days ago | oregoncapitalchronicle.com | Clark Corbin |Heath Druzin

This is the second installment of Howl, a five-part written series and podcast season produced in partnership between the Idaho Capital Sun, States Newsroom and Boise State Public Radio. Read the first installment by clicking here. NEZ PERCE RESERVATION, IDAHO – Long before the American government removed them both from their ancestral homelands, wolves and Native Americans coexisted side-by-side for centuries.
Oregon Democratic state Rep. Hoa Nguyen returns to House following cancer diagnosis

1 week ago | oregoncapitalchronicle.com | Shaanth Nanguneri

Rep. Hòa Nguyễn, D-Portland on Friday returned to the Oregon House in her first official public appearance since announcing she was undergoing treatment for advanced cancer in February. “I felt like I have a second chance at life now, by some miracle, whatever, all the prayers and affirmations really help,” she said on the House floor on Friday, surrounded by many of her colleagues and staff wearing face masks.
Kotek homeless shelter bill gets trimmed in wake of budget shortfall

1 week ago | oregoncapitalchronicle.com | Shaanth Nanguneri

Gov. Tina Kotek’s statewide homeless shelter support program advanced Tuesday out of a budgeting committee to the House floor, despite widespread dismay that Oregon’s latest attempt at combatting homelessness is falling short. Kotek’s shelter program, and much of the rest of her more than $800 million recommended homelessness budget, took a haircut amid decreasing revenue from economic uncertainty due in large part to trade wars and President Donald Trump’s ongoing tariffs.
Oregon officials condemn attacks on Minnesota lawmakers • Oregon Capital Chronicle

1 week ago | oregoncapitalchronicle.com | Julia Shumway

Oregon elected officials responded with shock and sadness Saturday to news that one Minnesota lawmaker was killed and another injured in what Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called a “politically motivated assassination.”Minnesota law enforcement believe a man impersonating a police officer shot and injured Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife in one Minneapolis suburb before driving to the home of Democratic-Farmer-Labor caucus leader Melissa Hortman.
Carter’s Hope: After U.S. government killed off Western wolves, a bold experiment brought them back

1 week ago | oregoncapitalchronicle.com | Clark Corbin |Heath Druzin

This is the first installment of Howl, a five-part written series and podcast season produced in partnership between the Idaho Capital Sun, States Newsroom and Boise State Public Radio. The helicopter was flying low above a remote snow-covered mountain ridge outside Hinton, Alberta, Canada, when pilot Clay Wilson jumped the wolves and gave chase.
Data centers and their neighbors

2 weeks ago | oregoncapitalchronicle.com | Randy Stapilus |Julia Shumway

Oregon has a big and (relatively) new kind of business it doesn’t really know how to deal with. It should start soon to figure that out. This new sector consists of its mass of data centers, more of which are likely to pop up in coming years. But the state has no overall strategy for dealing with them. It should, because data centers, economically significant and technically important as they are, are a business unlike any other.
Oregon lawmakers weigh increased oversight of state's embattled transportation department • Oregon Capital Chronicle

2 weeks ago | oregoncapitalchronicle.com | Shaanth Nanguneri

A powerful committee tasked with creating the Legislature’s newest attempt at a transportation investment package faced growing calls Tuesday to hold Oregon’s imperiled Department of Transportation accountable for funding future projects and regulations aimed at restoring the state’s infrastructure.
Bill enacting nation’s strictest limits on corporate health care influence signed by Gov. Kotek

2 weeks ago | oregoncapitalchronicle.com | Shaanth Nanguneri

Corporate investors hoping to take over local health care facilities in Oregon could soon face one of the hardest markets nationwide. Senate Bill 951, which was quietly signed into law by Gov. Tina Kotek on Monday, sets the strongest regulations on private and corporate control of medical practices in the nation, according to industry lawyers. A similar effort failed in the Legislature last year amid pushback from Republicans that prevented the bill from meeting key legislative deadlines.