The Oregon Department of Transportation is apologizing after they found a $1 billion accounting error. ODOT presented the error to the Oregon State Legislature’s Joint Committee on Transportation earlier this week.

Kotek ordered a pause to the state’s automatic voter registration program in October after concerning errors were brought to light.

About one hour and ten minutes into a hearing on the state highway fund, Travis Brouwer, ODOT’s assistant director and top finance official told lawmakers how the agency made a more than $1 billion error in its 2023-25 budget.

Starr immediately tapped state Rep. Shelly Boshart Davis — a trucking company owner and the top House Republican on transportation matters — to assist him “shoulder to shoulder” in that work. The duo are tasked with a powerful, but informal, assignment: figuring out whether ODOT really needs what it says.

The director of the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) told KATU his agency is willing to sit down with lawmakers and go through its budget, as lawmaker

Agencies across Oregon are evaluating what the Trump administration’s decision to freeze federal grants means for local projects and programs.

ODOT advises checking with local law enforcement or TripCheck.com for road condition reports before traveling U.S. Highway 20.

Starting Wednesday, the Oregon Driver and Motor Vehicle Services (DMV) will resume sending records to the Oregon Secretary of State for automatic voter registration, after mistakenly registering noncitizens to vote last year.

The Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles began automatically registering people to vote again, the state's Department of Transportation announced Wednesday. The controversial move comes after more than 1,600 people were registered to vote during a “clerical error.” It led to three cases of possible voter fraud.

The storm that brought high winds, rain and warmer temperatures to Central and Eastern Oregon late Monday and early Tuesday sent trees falling, snow melting and rivers rising, closing or impacting several highways and many travelers across the region.

An Oregon state representative announced Friday that she has received a stage four cancer diagnosis that could impact her legislative duties. The Portland seafood and wine festival sails into the ...