A former congressman calls the $45 million appropriation a “slush fund,” while a key trade union urges Kotek to approve it.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek is considering vetoing a plan to allocate $45 million to the Willamette Falls Trust, along with three other bills from the 2025 legislative session. The 2025 legislative session ...

Gov. Tina Kotek announced Thursday she will not veto a $45 million award to the Willamette Falls Trust, a nonprofit working to expand public access at the storied waterfall, after its leaders ...

Kotek announced on July 31 she was considering vetoing three policy bills and line items that would direct millions of ...

Oregon's governor announced Thursday her final veto decisions on a handful of bills after the end of legislative session.

Unlike the others, the potential veto of the Willamette Falls Trust funds is a line item veto, in which Kotek has identified ...

Gov. Tina Kotek announced Thursday that she is considering vetoing a $45 million outlay to the Willamette Falls Trust ...

Willamette Falls and the West Linn Paper Company could provide a pot of gold in terms of future development. Click through for more pictures of the soon-to-be accessible site.

Oregon’s Willamette Falls, the nation’s second-largest waterfall by volume, is surrounded by an industrial wasteland—remnants of America’s blue-collar glory days—and is nearly ...

Even with the authorization, fish in the Willamette face other issues with sea lions, Clements said. State officials won't be able to take action against the recent influx of the much larger ...

Biologists estimate the sea lions at Willamette Falls are eating at least a quarter of the winter steelhead run. At that rate, they say, there's about a 90 percent chance at least one population ...

Willamette Falls is the second-largest waterfall in the country by volume. Collette said the riverwalk is designed to showcase the area's Native American and industrial history while inviting ...