Commissioners discussed a letter sent by the Secretary of State's Office, which flagged parking expenses, event tickets and a dinner at Mahonia Hall.

Saying they needed more information, members of the Oregon Government Ethics Commission voted Friday to investigate Gov. Tina Kotek’s reported spending on parking, concert tickets and an employee recognition buffet.

“What they tend to do is buy you certainty and labor peace,” said Mike Salsgiver, executive director of the Oregon chapter of Associated General Contractors, which opposes the executive order. “We have absolutely no problems with that as long as they are agreed to by the customer and by the contractor.”

The governor's State of the State address and swearing in of new members of the Legislature comes a week before the 2025 session begins.

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek struck notes of frustration with the enormous problems facing Oregon and optimism that the state can fix them in an address to the Legislature focused on resilience on Monday. Kotek’s first State of the State ...

Angela Wilhelms, the CEO of Oregon Business & Industry, the state’s largest business group, promptly wrote to Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, asking her to follow Ferguson’s lead.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek on Monday pitched state lawmakers on a “brighter horizon” for some of the state’s most daunting issues — if they agreed to follow her lead. In a state of the state address delivered at the halfway point of her four-year term ...

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek delivered her State of the State address today to a joint session of the Oregon Assembly.

The main topics Kotek touched on were homelessness and housing supply, mental health and addiction, funding education and fighting climate change.

Voters in 13 Oregon counties – including all of the ones abutting Idaho – have passed measures in the past few years directing county leaders to study moving the state boundary. Greater Idaho’s leaders say the change would “make both states better” – or at least make more residents of each state happier with the political status quo.

Gov. Tina Kotek delivers the State of the State address during a joint session at the Oregon state Capitol in Salem, Ore., , Jan. 13, 2025. Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB Even critics of Kotek’s ...

New members of the Oregon Legislature were sworn in Monday — a week before the 2025 legislative session gets underway — and Gov. Tina Kotek delivered her State of the State address driving ...