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 ...

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 ...

Oregon schools could face rare multi-million dollar losses and budget cuts in the middle of the school year because of new ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

This week, Oregon’s Public Employee Retirement System Board received an earnings report on the status of the PERS fund investment. The report said Oregon’s PERS fund fell by 4 percent in 2015, a loss ...

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 ...

Oregon lawmakers this week said they will debate PERS, the massively underfunded pension system for public workers, giving an early victory to business leaders who say fixing the system is key to ...

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 ...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — 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 ...