Big corporate and party money has pored into the race between Republican Scott Hege, 64, and Democrat Hank Sanders, 25, for Oregon’s 52nd House District.

A Republican county commissioner who ushered in Google data center development in The Dalles is accusing his opponent of being a champion of data center tax breaks.

The seven-member group will send regulatory, policy recommendations for the state Legislature to consider in 2027.

Oregon Connects is one of several new nonprofits registered by the Data Center Coalition, an industry group backed by major tech companies.

The Oregon Department of State Lands is proposing for the first time to charge multinational telecommunications and tech companies for using the seafloor off the state’s Pacific Coast for fiber-optic cables used to transmit internet data and international calls. Since 1989, when Oregon got its first trans-Pacific fiber optic cable spanning from Pacific City to […]