The Oregon Department of Transportation is working to quickly hire staff for winter road maintenance following passage of the ...

An Oregon Department of Transportation snowplow works on Interstate 84 during a past winter. The agency is laying off 483 workers by July 31, 2025, in the wake of the Oregon Legislature not passing a ...

The Oregon legislature passed a funding bill during a special session to prevent layoffs at the Department of Transportation.

A last-ditch effort on the final day of Oregon's 2025 Legislature to prevent job cuts and service reductions for the Oregon Department of Transportation failed. House Bill 3402 was amended in the ...

The department normally begins hiring winter maintenance positions in July, Deputy Director Travis Brouwer told the Joint ...

The Oregon Senate passed Oregon Governor Tina Kotek's transportation bill, ending a months-long saga filled with tense debate ...

Traffic on Interstate 5 in Portland, Ore. The transportation funding package that died at the end of this year’s legislative session would have raised billions for roads, bridges, transit and other ...

The passage of Gov. Tina Kotek's transportation bill will allocate $4.3 billion to Oregon's transportation infrastructure ...

SPRAY, Wheeler County — Hundreds of Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) workers are being laid off after state lawmakers failed to pass a robust funding bill during the 2025 legislative session ...

Don Ryan / AP It’s been nearly a week since Oregon Democrats’ road-funding hopes imploded, but the fallout from that failure is still hitting home. At the Oregon Department of Transportation, hundreds ...

"I know this is shocking, scary and frustrating for every single one of you," Oregon Department of Transportation Director Kris Strickler said. "It is for me too." Up to 700 Oregon Department of ...

The delay was announced the night before lawmakers were scheduled to meet on Sept. 17 for what was expected to be the last day of the special session.