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San Francisco has relocated 10 people facing homelessness to Oregon. Here’s why
As cities across the United States are seeing a homelessness crisis, the mayor of San Francisco has issued a new directive to help relocate some people experiencing homelessness, with Oregon being among the top destinations.
The Short Score: Hermiston and More
It was a weekend for the “underdogs” with teams outside the Top 15 raking in and climbing in the PRCA world standings. Tanner Tomlinson and Patrick Smith have been fighting tooth and nail to climb in the standings, and they’ve landed themselves both at 21st in the world after a $14,064-a-man weekend. Tomlinson and Smith won the Farm-City Pro Rodeo in Hermiston, Oregon, picking up $10,101 each. They won $2,546 a man for second at the Lea County PRCA Rodeo in Lovington, New Mexico, and $1,417 a man for eighth in Logan, Utah, at the Cache County Fair and Rodeo. On this episode of The Short Score, Tomlinson briefly talks about their weekend, how they’re climbing in the standings and their mentality going into the last few weeks of the 2024 season.
Oregon Braces for Severe Thunderstorms and Fire Weather Conditions
Pendleton, OR – This weekend, Oregon is set to experience a volatile mix of severe weather conditions that pose significant risks for wildfires and flash flooding. Starting Saturday afternoon, the National Weather Service (NWS) in Pendleton has issued alerts for thunderstorms capable of producing frequent cloud-to-ground lightning, erratic winds, and dangerous outflow gusts. These conditions are expected to impact the Lower Columbia Basin and Kittitas Valley fire zones, elevating the potential for new fire starts and the rapid spread of existing fires.
Stalled gun control Measure 114 continues to divide Oregon: Doctors, ministers vs. ranchers, farmers
Physicians who operate on gunshot victims and ranchers seeking to protect their property have lined up on opposite sides of the state’s appeal to overturn a Harney County judge’s ruling that Oregon’s voter-approved gun control Measure 114 is unconstitutional. More than two dozen groups signed off on...
TIMELINE: Saturday’s severe storm around the Pacific Northwest
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Severe weather is threatening much of western Oregon and southwest Washington Saturday as a KOIN 6 Weather Alert goes into place. A sunny and warm start to the day might catch some off guard around Portland on Saturday morning, but it’s that sunshine and heat that will help storms develop later in the day.
Oregon grocery workers union backs both Republican Chavez-DeRemer and Democrat Bynum
Oregon’s largest private sector union won’t take sides in the state’s most competitive congressional race, saying both Republican incumbent Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Democratic challenger Janelle Bynum are “friends of labor.” United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555, which represents more than 30,000 members across Oregon, Idaho, southwestern Washington and Wyoming, gave both Chavez-DeRemer and Bynum […]
Oregon DEQ extends Deschutes County air quality advisory until at least Monday due to wildfire smoke
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality issued another air quality advisory for Deschutes, Klamath and Lake counties on Friday due to continued smoke from wildfires in Oregon and California. DEQ said it expects the air quality advisory to last until at least Monday afternoon. DEQ also expects intermittent smoke in the following The post Oregon DEQ extends Deschutes County air quality advisory until at least Monday due to wildfire smoke appeared first on KTVZ.
Drought has cost the hydropower industry billions in losses in two decades, analysis finds
Persistent drought in the West over the last two decades has limited the amount of electricity that hydropower dams can generate, costing the industry and the region billions of dollars in revenue. The sector lost about 300 million megawatt hours of power generation between 2003 and 2020 due to drought...
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