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The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is asking the public to weigh in on rules to re-establish the state’s signature Climate Protection Program requiring reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel companies and other polluters. Last December, a court invalidated the program over a technicality after Oregon’s three...

DAYS CREEK, Ore. — Hawaii, the most recent state to join the Northwest Compact, hit the ground running by sending personnel to Oregon on their first fire assignments under the compact. This past April, Hawaii became the eleventh member of the Northwest Wildland Fire Protection Agreement (NW Compact). The...

If you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of suicide or a mental health crisis, call or text 988 for free, immediate support 24/7. After Jesse Banks died alone in his cell at Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem, a state medical examiner found a ripped up mask to protect against disease crammed in the back of his bloody mouth.

Oregon’s temperatures are dipping, but last month’s heat wave solidified an unsettling trend: Extreme heat is hitting Oregon’s aging population hard. With withering temperatures at 100 degrees or higher during the July 2024 heat wave, 16 people died due to suspected issues related to the heat, according to the state medical examiner’s office. All but two of the deaths were people over the age of 50, and most of them were in their 70s or 80s.

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) --Total nonfarm employment, throughout Central Oregon followed its usual seasonal pattern in July, as seasonally adjusted unemployment rates saw little change over the month. Here's Wednesday's report from the Oregon Employment Department: Crook County: The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased over the month of July and is now 6.0%, down from 6.1% The post Central Oregon jobless rates hold steady in July; job losses tied to seasonal factors such as summer schools break appeared first on KTVZ.

In 2023, the Oregon legislature launched the Early Literacy Success Initiative to help all students learn to read, as only 46% of students read proficiently by the end of grade 3. To support the initiative, the Children’s Institute (CI) partnered with the Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest (REL Northwest) to compile accessible, evidence-based resources to support this effort and strengthen literacy practices for young children.

In a new data analysis, Oregon is the place where people love reading the most in the US, whereas Vermont is the place where people love physical books the most. Oregon is the city where people tend to search for books, in all forms, the most. Audiobook demand in the...

Roxy Mayer, Press Secretary, Office of Governor Kotek. Governor Kotek Convenes Summer and After School Learning Summit. Summit focuses on removing barriers and developing high-quality summer and after school learning opportunities. Eugene, OR — Governor Tina Kotek co-convened a Summer and After School Learning Summit sponsored by the Oregon Community...

SHORES OF THE SALISH SEA — Keeley Chiasson plodded through the steep, sandy sediment near the base of the bluff. Carefully perched on a firm shelf, she scraped back the weathered surface of the wall, revealing stripes of cocoa, rust and tan sediments. These layers may reveal clues about...

A set of triplets who refuse to sleep are cracking each other up — and TikTok is laughing along. “They feed off each other so when one is laughing, so are the others,” Julia Platsman, a mother of 14-month-old identical triplets in Oregon, tells TODAY.com. “Excuse me —...

An audit of the Oregon Department of Early Learning and Care found the agency could benefit from stronger oversight and equity training to improve governance of the state’s early learning system. Auditors’ findings, issued in a letter from the Secretary of State’s audits division to agency director Alyssa Chatterjee...

Under Measure 118, which is on the ballot this fall, Oregon residents would get a $1,600 rebate funded by a 3 percent sales tax.

Amid a record wildfire season, Oregon BottleDrop announced a new fund to help firefighting efforts across the state.

Pressure mounts on methane-polluting Oregon landfill to clean up its act. Nearby residents have been sounding the alarm about Coffin Butte Landfill for years. Now Sen. Jeff Merkley and other members of Congress are demanding action. Coffin Butte, a rapidly growing landfill in Oregon that is leaking explosive levels of...

UNION – (Release from the U.S. Forest Service) The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest continues to work on a culvert on National Forest Service Road 2036 that branches off Medical Springs Hwy (The 203) just Southeast of Union. The work was originally projected to end Aug. 24 but has been extended to Sept. 4.

LA GRANDE – (Release from ODOT) Work begins this week to pave a one-mile section of I-84 in La Grande, from the Oro Dell Interchange, Exit 259, to the Second Street Bridge, milepost 260.4. Traffic will be reduced to a single lane with 15 feet travel width, and reduced...

BAKER COUNTY – A Portland man, Mikhail Sergeyevich Yelkin (38), faces a slew of charges following the investigation of a single vehicle crash on Sunday, August 18, including the injury of 3 juveniles aged 9, 11 and 14 years old. The incident occurred at roughly 12:30 p.m. along Snake River Road near Moonshine Mine in Eastern Baker County. The official OSP description of the incident and subsequent charges (as provided in an August 19 media log) is as follows:

MORROW COUNTY Ore. (KPTV) - The Oregon Health Authority issued an advisory on Monday for the Willow Creek Reservoir in Morrow County after regular testing found cyanobacteria bloom and cyanotoxins above recreational use values for human and animal exposure. People should avoid swimming and high-speed water activities, such as water...

The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation are close to removing a dam near Pendleton that is doing little except blocking fish. Still, it’s taken 40 years for the tribes and the dam’s owners to get this close to demolition. Mike Lambert, the fish habitat and passage...