SALEM -- A hard-driving Republican businessman and a Democratic educator known for his geniality have as they set off on the difficult task of guiding an evenly divided Oregon House. and are taking ...

In a chat with reporters from The Oregonian Wednesday, House Co-speakers Bruce Hanna, R-Roseburg, and Arnie Roblan, D-Coos Bay, talked about how they are handling the impasse between the two co-chairs ...

Competitive elections these days are hard-fought affairs -- nasty, brutish and staggeringly expensive. The focus is on winning and winning alone. That was certainly the goal of both Oregon’s ...

Two longtime lawmakers on Oregon's south coast announced today they will not seek re-election in 2020. State Sen. Arnie Roblan (D-Coos Bay), who entered the Legislature in 2005, and his replacement in ...

COOS BAY -- Oregon House Co-Speaker Arnie Roblan will run for the state Senate District 5 seat, which will be vacated next year by state Sen. Joanne Verger, he announced this morning. Roblan, D-Coos ...

The son of Oregon House Co-Speaker Arnie Roblan and Madison Elementary School Principal Arlene Roblan died Monday in San Francisco. Aaron Roblan, 37, was a labor lawyer at the San Francisco firm ...

The Oregon Business Association has given state House’s co-speakers its highest political honor. The Oregon Business Association has given state House’s co-speakers its highest political honor. Rep.

This story was produced by the Oregon Journalism Project, a nonprofit newsroom covering the state. In Coos Bay, everybody knows Arnie Roblan. That’s because Roblan, 77, a onetime co-speaker of the ...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An adult son of Oregon House Co-Speaker Arnie Roblan has died. Roblan’s office said Aaron Roblan died Monday in San Francisco. He was 37. The speaker’s office did not release a ...