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VA secretary: Making progress on better care for vets
Veterans' Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough says his agency is making progress on reducing the rate of veterans’ suicides and improving care for veterans. But speaking with reporters after a keynote address at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, McDonough said the more than 2,400 mental health professionals and veterans’ service advocates acknowledge there’s more to be done. “It is not a mistake that we are doing this conference in Oregon,”...
People living, dumping on Oregon’s public lands ‘overwhelming’ Bureau of Land Management
Hover over the Redmond Municipal Airport on Google Maps and scroll north of the Ochoco Highway. From a distance, the parcels of public land look like undisturbed patches of Oregon’s high desert: Western juniper trees scattered between brown and green tufts of bunchgrass and sagebrush set in the rain shadow of the High Cascades.
BACK IN TIME - 1999: City grapples with odor problem in Crestview area
110 years ago July 23, 1914 Shall Crook County be divided into two or more counties? This is a question that will not down. It arises in greater or less force at each recurring biennial election and sooner or later must be finally decided. The question is an important one and should be approached fairly, judiciously and without prejudice. In this spirit, apparently, a movement is now on to call...
The End Of Fast Food Jobs In California
Gavin Newsom has really blown it this time. The California governor, along with his henchmen in the legislature, arrogantly raised the minimum wage of fast food workers. The liberals proudly proclaimed that the new minimum wage, at least twenty dollars an hour, would allow workers to live like the people they serve. They called it a livable wage.
Doctors Say Providence’s Sale of Its Hospitals’ Testing Labs Has Endangered Patients
When two of Portland’s three largest hospital systems announced last year they were selling their testing laboratories to a multinational North Carolina corporation named Labcorp, executives offered reassurances that the transition would be “seamless.”. “Excellent quality” service would continue, Providence CEO William Olson promised in a letter published...
Couple left to rebuild after Central Point Grant Fire
CENTRAL POINT, Ore. - The Grant Fire that erupted Tuesday afternoon leaves Quade Norush and his wife with nothing. Multiple agencies responded to Grant Road in Central Point and the fire prompted Level 2 evacuations. Quade told NewsWatch 12 on a phone call that his wife was hospitalized last week due to E. Coli poisoning after eating contaminated sushi at a local restaurant.
Groups seek stronger protection for 200,000 acres in Siskiyou County with 'purest water'
From the air, the Medicine Lake Highlands in Siskiyou County appears as a vast expanse of mountains covered in forests of pine and fir. But what has groups such as Trout Unlimited, the Pit River Nation and Backcountry Hunters & Anglers of California eager to get federal protection for the area can't be seen on the surface of the mountains or in the fields of volcanic rock.
4 Oregon Cities Rank Among the Most Dangerous Cities in America
A new study says that some cities in Oregon are some of the most dangerous in the whole country. Based on FBI crime data, the study found that Ontario, Portland, Roseburg, and Coos Bay were some of the state’s most dangerous places to live. Ontario: The Most Dangerous City...
Update: Oregon under an excessive heat warning from Saturday to Monday
The National Weather Service issued an updated excessive heat warning at 3:36 a.m. on Friday valid from Saturday 11 a.m. until Monday 10 p.m. for Eastern Columbia River Gorge of Oregon, Lower Columbia Basin of Oregon, Grande Ronde Valley, Northern Blue Mountains of Oregon, Southern Blue Mountains of Oregon, John Day Basin, Foothills of the Northern Blue Mountains of Oregon and Foothills of the Southern Blue Mountains of Oregon as well as Wallowa County.
Summer EBT is available for a limited time, thousands of families may be eligible but must apply
Having enough to eat is crucial for good health and well-being. Yet hunger is a persistent problem across the country and here in Oregon. Feeding America reports that 1 in 6 children in Oregon face hunger. To help children get the food they need to thrive, the Oregon State Legislature approved the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) and the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) to offer Summer EBT this year. With support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS),...
Rocky shores of Pacific Northwest show low resilience to changes in climate, research shows
A 15-year period ending in 2020 that included a marine heat wave and a sea star wasting disease epidemic saw major changes in the groups of organisms that live along the rocky shores of the Pacific Northwest. The study by Oregon State University scientists, involving four capes in Oregon and California, suggests these communities of species may have low resilience to climate change. Findings were published recently in Nature Ecology & Evolution. ...
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