Malls and shopping centers adjust leasing strategies to fill vacancies.

Overcoming obstacles, Brian Obie finally opens his Eugene hotel.

A third-generation president works to ensure Diebold Lumber in Troutdale evolves to survive.

Manufacturing makes up more of the state's GDP than almost any other state, and jobs in the sector are projected to grow.

A fertile industry sprouts up around the costly little fungi.

Native son Tom Kelly wields his unassuming style and quiet drive to build his business and his state.

For 19 years, Oregon Business has been surveying employers statewide to find out just what it takes to be a great place to work. While it’s always a mix of factors that make some companies more attractive to employees than others, the tendency is often to highlight the more singular, tangible benefits such as massages and paid sabbaticals, lavish soirées and bring-your-pet-to-work days.

Hardly. Arts-related jobs have grown faster than overall employment.

For small businesses in Newport like Elliott and Daniella Crowder’s Bike Newport, increased activity in marine science has helped boost business in a town traditionally driven by fishing, tourism and logging.

On the other side of the debate about China’s aggressive push into the U.S. solar market is this: exports.

It takes cattle, sheep, hay, wheat, hunting, tourism, wool, yarn, custom farming, conservation, wind — and things yet to be imagined — to secure the future of the historic family-owned Imperial Stock Ranch.

The spate of recent buyouts of Oregon companies underscores its primary role in the M&A landscape as a shopping mart for large, out-of-state firms.

Large swaths of Oregon’s public land are being leased for wind exploration, leaving wildlife at risk and raising serious questions about how energy projects should be developed.

Oregon is creating a marketplace where small businesses can buy health insurance. But will this exchange improve quality and make health plans more affordable?

What's ahead for Oregon's economy? The forecast is mixed.