The Southeast Portland bakeshop will open a second location across the Willamette this summer and add 20 to the three dozen it already employs.

Restaurants like Pacific Pie are the big drivers in one of the state's fastest-growing sector -- leisure and hospitality,

STEVENSVILLE – Her first husband died in Vietnam and her second husband died of injuries stemming from the same war. Now, Helga Cook is losing her home.

Over the past four years, the 74-year-old German immigrant has been engaged in the same back-and-forth battle that caused millions of Americans to lose their homes and sent the nation’s economy i

This announcement and the increasing number of those like it represent what's very likely the front end of a massive unloading of home loans from big banks like Bank of America, Chase, and Wells Fargo to a new wave of non-bank investment firms focused on servicing "distressed" accounts.

By Erik Kancler of Bend, Oregon.Erik works in government and

There may be no government action more universally reviled in the U.S. than bank bailouts. Republicans and Democrats, financial industry lobbyists and watchdogs, Wall Street executives and President Barack Obama say taxpayers should never again rescue a failing bank.

To make sure a future crisis won’t force governments to intervene, international r