PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Gov. Tina Kotek is addressing the public defender shortage crisis by announcing a new interim ...

Despite leadership changes and legislative fixes, Oregon has for years failed to provide attorneys to everyone charged with ...

The university has “implemented measures to prevent a recurrence” of the death at the center of the complaint.

The leader of the Oregon Public Defense Commission was fired and replaced on April 17 by Gov. Tina Kotek amid an ongoing public defender crisis.

Governor Tina Kotek has changed leadership of the Oregon Public Defense Commission. Kotek says it's unacceptable that more than four-thousand defendants in Oregon don't have ...

Robert Atrops, 71, was arrested at his Newberg home last spring for the murder of Deborah Atrops. On Thursday, several ...

Oregon Criminal Justice Commission Executive Director Ken Sanchagrin was appointed by the governor as the interim director at ...

Gov. Tina Kotek and Oregon business leaders met on Wednesday for a roundtable discussion on the local impacts of President ...

Jessica Kampfe led the Oregon Public Defense Commission through an overhaul that began in 2023, but has received criticism ...

Makary, who reports to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, has been a vocal critic of the medical ...

Gov. Tina Kotek fired Oregon’s public defense leader amid an ongoing shortage of public defense attorneys in the state and ...

After two years in a top job at one of Oregon’s most powerful labor unions, Joe Baessler faces a fellow union member who ...