Oregon Gov. Kate Brown's task force on paying down the state's big public pension debt is looking at presenting the state's 900 governmental agencies with a deal. If those agencies step up their ...

As the noise of the election fades, prospects for reforming rest more firmly than ever with Democrats, who now control the Senate, House and governor's office. That could make the odds of meaningful ...

Towns, school boards and agencies are scrambling to forestall more layoffs, furloughs and service cuts next year as they face a 45 percent spike in costs to bail out Gov. John Kitzhaber is pursuing ...

Former Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski is leading a new initiative drive that would ask voters to reduce some public employee retirement benefits to help reduce the costs of the financially troubled ...

SALEM, Ore. -- Costs for the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System will rise by billions over the next six years, according to actuarial calculations made for the pension system. Those costs will ...

The Oregon Investment Council has slowed its pace of investing in private partnerships, but committed nearly $1 billion from PERS. The Oregon Investment Council has slowed its pace of investing in ...

Some of my readers have been getting letters asking them where they live. That can be an unnerving question and probably even more so when it's their retirement agency doing the asking. Don't worry, ...

How many ways can you scribble Massachusetts Avenue? The major Boston thoroughfare reportedly was recorded under 15 different names in one clothing company's database. Such information duplication is ...

SALEM, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon lawmakers began their 2017 session Wednesday, ready to face a number of issues including a deficit of nearly $2 billion. Lawmakers’ first order of business Wednesday was ...

SALEM — The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the reductions in public employee pension benefits that state lawmakers passed last year to help address the state's pension funding deficit and ...

The Oregon Supreme Court has overturned a key portion of pension cuts to public employees enacted in 2013. The decision means that schools, cities, state agencies and other public employers likely ...

SALEM — The Oregon Supreme Court has upheld the 2019 legislative changes that divert part of future public employee retirement contributions to pay current pensions. A unanimous court, in an opinion ...