Jeff Manning and Anna Marum - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tue July 18, 2017
Labor Shortages Become 'New Normal' as City Builds
John Killin pressed the panic button in February amid a multibillion-dollar tsunami of real estate development. The building frenzy that lit up the Portland-area economy and changed the city irrevocably has depleted the pool of skilled construction workers....
Gillian Flaccus - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Mon July 03, 2017
Oregon OKs Permit for First All-Wood High-Rise in U.S.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Officials in Oregon have approved construction permits for the first all-wood high-rise building in the nation. Construction on the 12-story building, called Framework, will break ground this fall in Portland's trendy and rapidly growing Pearl District and is expected to be completed by the following winter....
Tue June 06, 2017
Oregon School Wins Forestry Award
SUTHERLIN (AP) On behalf of the Oregon Natural Resources Education Fund (ONREF), the Society of American Foresters presented an award certificate at a May 15 Sutherlin school board meeting to Sutherlin High School and instructor Wes Crawford to show support for the school's commitment to providing educational opportunities in forestry....
Lori Tobias - Tue June 06, 2017
Tillamook Estuaries' $12M Project Restores Oregon Wetlands
For decades, folks in Tillamook, Ore., looked for ways to diminish the flooding that so frequently troubles this agricultural community, damaging property, threatening lives and generally shutting down town....
Wed May 10, 2017
PacWest Machinery Announces Distribution Agreement with Metso Minerals
PacWest Machinery has announced the signing of a distribution agreement with Metso. “We are delighted to partner with Metso to expand our product line-up to better serve the aggregate processing industries, among others....
Wed May 10, 2017
Oregon Officials Consider Public Ownership of State Forest
The three officials responsible for Oregon's oldest state forest staked out positions on its future, with two advocating continued public ownership and the third supporting public ownership of its old-growth areas....
Cindy Riley - Wed May 10, 2017
Portland Water Spends $190M to Preserve Reservoir
In Oregon, an eight-year capital improvement project to update the Washington Park reservoir site is moving forward. The Portland Water Bureau is overseeing efforts to preserve the historic drinking water function and protect the area from the potentially catastrophic effects of a natural disaster....
Mon April 17, 2017
Reports: Oregon's Roads, Bridges Key to Economy
Oregon's transportation system is critical to the economy: one in five jobs in the state is transportation and trade-related, and as a trade-dependent state it relies heavily on exports from farms, forests and factories to support jobs....
Joe Douglass -KATU News - Fri March 31, 2017
State Website Cracks Down on Illegal Contractors
"We've got some very bad boys out there that the public needs to know about," Stan Jessup, enforcement program manager for Oregon's Construction Contractors Board (CCB), told KATU on Thursday. Jessup was talking about a new website from CCB that lists unlicensed contractors who have racked up tens of thousands of dollars in fines along with photos of them....
Mon March 20, 2017
79th Annual Oregon Logging Conference Bigger, Better Than Ever
More than 6,000 industry professionals from 37 U.S. states, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Japan, New Zealand, Russia and Sweden attended the 79th Annual Oregon Logging Conference (OLC), held Feb....
