About a hundred and fifty people gathered at the Hayhurst Elementary School auditorium Monday night for a standing-room-only event billed as a “Community Conversation about Transportation in Southwest Portland”…

On March 7, Oregon’s legislative session adjourned on March 7. During the 30-day session, the legislature considered multiple environmental bills that were a priority for the Environmental Caucus…

Organized labor notched several legislative wins in the five-week “short session” of the Oregon Legislature that ended March 7…

The Oregon Legislature this week passed the EMS Modernization Act of 2024 (HB 4081), a policy framework more than 20 years in the making that begins to address inefficiencies in Oregon’s emergency medical system, after years of ranking near the bottom in national surveys…

There are a lot of uncertainties when it comes to catastrophic weather events or natural disasters. But there are also a few certitudes: More are coming, and Oregon is not ready…

 The city of Salem will no longer contest the benefits’ claim by the widow of a Salem firefighter, City Manager Keith Stahley announced during a City Council meeting Monday night…

The Oregon Legislature has passed first-in-the-nation legislation to clear barriers to emergency HIV prevention drugs…

The Oregon State Senate today approved a transformative “Buy America” bill (HB 3332), which will retool the state’s procurement practices and greater align state buying power with current robust federal domestic standards…

A firefighter for Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue in her day job, Grayber, 48, rocketed to the top of this year’s rankings. “Smart, tough and a quick learner” was a typical assessment…

Senate Bill 592A to improve the Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) enforcement and investigation tools passed the Oregon State House today in a bipartisan 35 to 23 vote and now moves on to the Governor to be signed into law…

The state House on Tuesday passed a firearms bill that would ban untraceable guns, raise the minimum age from 18 to 21 to purchase powerful firearms like semiautomatic weapons and allow local agencies to ban firearms on government property…

Dacia Grayber is many things: a firefighter, paramedic, mom and activist. She’s been a PCP and Neighborhood Leader. She served as State Representative for Oregon House of Representatives District 35 during 2021-2023…

Oregon lawmakers are considering legislation that would give the state some of the strongest laws in the country to combat paramilitary activity and violent extremism…

Democratic Rep. Dacia Grayber and her husband were camping near Mount Ashland, just north of the wildfire…

House Bill 4113, which expands cancer coverage for firefighters, has been signed into law by Oregon Gov. Kate Brown. The law expands the list of cancers under state law considered an occupational disease for firefighters; it will now include bladder and gynecologic cancers…

The Oregon Legislature has approved a bill to spur planning around the impact of a major earthquake on fuels stored along a 6-mile stretch of the Willamette River in Northwest Portland…

On Wednesday, the Senate unanimously approved House Bill 4113, a measure that adds bladder and female reproductive cancers as occupational diseases for firefighters under Oregon’s workers’ compensation law…

For years, in the course of their duties protecting people and property across the state, Oregon’s firefighters have been exposed to toxic smoke and chemicals that can cause cancer…

“This is a public safety crisis that has the potential to unleash a disaster equal to the Deepwater Horizon spill, only right here in our city, at a cost to lives and our environment that I’m not sure we can even fathom.” — Rep. Dacia Grayber, D-Tigard…

As she joined hundreds of her fellow firefighters in paying respects to Capt. Rick Ilg on Nov. 5, Dacia Grayber felt “shattered,” she later said on Twitter…

The recently approved agreement by the Oregon Legislature to redraw state congressional and legislative district lines will significantly impact Oregon House District 35, a seat currently held by Democrat Dacia Grayber…

Oregon state Rep. Dacia Grayber, a Democrat who represents portions of Multnomah and Washington counties, was 10 years old when she turned to her volunteer firefighter dad and told him she wanted to follow in his footsteps. A captain standing nearby scoffed…

Only 9% of firefighters are women nationwide. Some of Oregon’s female firefighters are trying to help close that gender diversity gap at the Portland Metro Fire Camp, a three-day all-female fire camp that gives young women the opportunity to learn firefighting skills…

As the Oregon Legislature wrapped up the 2021 session last month with historic investments in just about every area, lawmakers agreed on one bold reality: This year’s “freshman” class might be the most effective in recent memory…

An Oregon House bill passed Monday that allows pharmacists to prescribe, dispense, and administer both PrEP and PEP. The new bill clarifies that Oregon pharmacists are legally allowed to conduct HIV tests. It now goes to Gov. Kate Brown’s desk to sign…

The Oregon House on Monday re-passed House Bill 2958 B, which allows pharmacists to prescribe, dispense, and administer both pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis. Known as PrEP and PEP, the two drugs prevent HIV infection…

Dacia Grayber, a firefighter and paramedic who recently entered the state Legislature in January of this year, said she joined the earthquake commission right after H.B. 3309 passed…

Pharmacists would get reimbursed from insurers for prescribing and administering HIV prevention drugs under a bill in the Oregon Legislature…

Rep. Dacia Grayber, a firefighter and paramedic, stood in support of the bill and described coming on the scene of shootings. Her first was the fatal accidental shooting of a child by a friend. They had found a gun under a bed while playing…

How fast can you read through a 170-page bill? That very question is what has Oregon House Democrats on edge as the pandemic ignites tensions over workplace safety…

Depending on your perspective on politics, the toll the pandemic has taken on our elected officials’ ability to communicate directly with the populace is either the silveriest of linings or another piercing loss in a year that already had way too many of them…

State Rep. Dacia Grayber, D-Tigard, likened cutting that work to President Donald Trump’s administration disbanding pandemic response staffers in 2018, ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic…

This was the year Portland ran out of superlatives. We also ran out of toilet paper. It was that kind of year. But 2020 was primarily a time when words didn’t do justice to the extreme nature of events…

A firefighter and paramedic who has been on the front lines of both pandemic and forest fires, Dacia Grayber, 45, has faced head on the crises of this year…

The week after Labor Day, as other political candidates were making campaign phone calls, Dacia Grayber was putting in long hours fighting catastrophic wildfires. But in four months time, she’ll most likely be the newest Democratic state representative for Tigard in the Oregon Legislature…

Rep. Margaret Doherty (D-Tigard) is stepping down after a decade representing this swath of hilly suburbs southwest of Portland. The pick to replace her is an easy one: Dacia Grayber is a firefighter and paramedic with Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue…

Oregon ballots can be confusing and crowded. This guide lists only candidates who have opponents on the ballot, and only those who have at least one union endorsing them…

When her husband was diagnosed with throat cancer in March, Dacia Grayber panicked. Her mind raced with questions: How would Matt Laas, her husband of eight years, respond to treatment? How would they tell their five kids…