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Oregonians brace for dangerously warm weekend
Oregonians braced for a major heat wave Friday as temperatures were expected to top 100 degrees. The first heat wave of the summer may break records. Experts say intense heat and warmer-than-normal weather could lead to an active wildfire season. But the high temperatures also pose dangerous conditions now, especially for people experiencing homelessness, younger and older individuals, and animals, with both the city of Portland and Multnomah County declaring a state of emergency in response to the heat.
Deacon Development Group Announces Grand Opening of 126-Unit Merx Apartment Building in Portland’s Slabtown
Portland, Oregon Deacon Development Group, in collaboration with Deacon Construction, LLC, proudly announces the completion of the Merx market-rate apartment building located in the vibrant Slabtown neighborhood of Northwest Portland. This modern seven-story building spans 57,412 square feet and offers 126 thoughtfully designed studios and one-bedroom apartments. Each studio apartment...
FIDO-Friday's Oregon Dog Rescue Featured Shelter Dog-OZZIE
Fido Friday Featured Shelter Dog From Oregon Dog Rescue. IMPORTANT INFO: Adoption appointments for Oregon Dog Rescue are now booked online through our website (please do NOT submit a pet finder inquiry)! We offer 1 hour appointments to view up to 2 of our available dogs. If you find the one that's the perfect match you will fill out our adoption contract and take the dog home with you that day!
Tribal leaders on the coast call for action to return sea otters to Oregon
Leaders of two federally recognized Oregon coastal Indian tribes have called upon U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland to “take all appropriate actions” to direct the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to return sea otters — known to tribal ancestors as Xulh-t’ush, Giye’we, or Ela-ke’ — to the Oregon coast within the next five years. The Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians (CTCLUSI) and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians (CTSI) have sent letters to Haaland. In the letters, Bradley...
Western Oregon Resource Advisory Council to host meeting, south coast field tour, July 10
The Bureau of Land Management’s Western Oregon Resource Advisory Council will participate in a meeting at the Coos Bay District Office on July 10, 2024, from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Pacific Time and field tour to the Loon Lake Recreation Site and other public lands in the Coos Bay Area, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. PT. “We are excited to tour through the coastal forest and visit one of our most popular recreation sites with our advisory council members,” said Heather Whitman, Roseburg...
Chinook angling on the McKenzie River to close July 8
SALEM, Ore. — Chinook salmon angling on the McKenzie River will close beginning Monday, July 8 through the end of the year, Oregon Dept. of Fish & Wildlife reports. ODFW is taking this step to protect the unexpectedly small runs of both wild and hatchery Chinook salmon observed at Leaburg Dam on the McKenzie River in 2024, the agency says.
'Kind of surreal': Barbecue fire in Northeast Portland damages family's home on Fourth of July
PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland family was displaced from their home on Northeast 81st and Oregon streets Thursday night after a barbecue fire jumped to the building, spreading through the apartment and into the adjoining units in the triplex. After wrapping up on a large pallet fire less than...
OSAA hires Brownrigg as assistant executive director
The Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) has hired Lauren Brownrigg as an assistant executive director. Brownrigg has served as associate athletic director and senior woman administrator at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Ore. since 2012. She was named senior associate athletic director in 2020. Brownrigg replaces Monica Maxwell, who recently accepted a position with the National Federation of State High School Association (NFHS) in Indianapolis, Ind. ...
Izzy D’Aquila’s first regular season goal at home lifts Portland Thorns over San Diego Wave
Members of the Portland Thorns have spent time over the course of the last few weeks watching the Olympic gymnastics trials. Inspired by the athletic feats, a group of players fashioned a special celebration to be pulled out if, and when, one of their teammates found the back of the net at Providence Park against the visiting San Diego Wave on Friday night.
Here she is, Miss Oregon: Abigail Hoppe celebrates, and looks forward to Miss America
A night after being crowned Miss Oregon, Abigail Hoppe “finally got some sleep.” The next day, “it feels real,” she told the Portland Tribune. Being Miss Oregon will take some getting used to, but Hoppe will try her best as she prepares for the Miss America contest. “The whole week I had overwhelming feeling of...
‘It’s disrespectfully hot:’ Homeless residents seek shelter in sweltering Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. — Midway through day one of a projected five-day heat wave, Governor Tina Kotek declared a statewide extreme heat emergency. Multnomah county and the city of Portland are also under emergency declarations for dangerous heat, and homeless residents spent the day fighting to escape the sun, from the banks of the Willamette River to the sidewalks in Old Town.
Grant program funded by federal gas tax makes more than $300,000 investment in Southwest Oregon Trail Projects
Oregon State Parks’ Recreational Trails Program is investing over $300,000 in southwest Oregon’s trail networks via three nonprofit trail organizations, the Siskiyou Uplands Trails Association, Rogue Valley Mountain Biking Association, and Siskiyou Mountain Club. SUTA will be completing a five-mile section of new trail on their Jack-Ash trail project. The funding will also cover costs of signs, including an interpretive sign with information on local indigenous cultures. The multi-phase project will ultimately connect the Ashland watershed trail system to Jacksonville’s Forest Park. The group was...
Oregon voters will face few ballot measures this fall
Oregonians will likely decide just four or possibly five ballot measures this fall as only a pair of citizen-led initiatives appear to have garnered enough signatures by Friday’s deadline. Proponents of an effort to give every state resident roughly $750 annually from increased corporate taxes submitted 168,854 unverified signatures...
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