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Oregon State Fire Marshal Leads Efforts To Protect Communities From Wildfires
The wildfires in Oregon have created significant challenges due to hot temperatures and strong winds. The Oregon State Fire Marshal, Mariana Ruiz-Temple, has emphasized the importance of public awareness and preventive measures to avoid sparking new fires. The eastern part of the state is particularly vulnerable, with expectations of abundant lightning, gusty winds up to 60 miles per hour, and high temperatures.
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NewsChannel 21 to host Janelle Bynum-Lori Chavez-DeRemer debate, in one of the hottest House races in the US
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – After weeks of negotiations with the campaigns on a date and format, the two candidates in Oregon’s Fifth Congressional District, Republican Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Democratic challenger Janelle Bynum, have agreed to a debate this fall on NewsChannel 21, the station announced Friday. The hour-long debate is scheduled to take place The post NewsChannel 21 to host Janelle Bynum-Lori Chavez-DeRemer debate, in one of the hottest House races in the US appeared first on KTVZ.
Tribal-State Summit Held In Oregon
This week, Governor Tina Kotek convened the 2024 Tribal-State Government-to-Government Summit, co-hosted by the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, in Canyonville at Seven Feathers Casino Resort. The Governor and First Lady Aimee Kotek Wilson joined the chairs and Tribal leaders of Oregon’s nine federally recognized sovereign tribal...
‘A long way from over’: Oregon wildfires churn through vast stretches of range
WESTFALL — Jeff Romans rode his ATV Friday out to the charred hills and ridges of the federal grazing land near his ranch and remembered how grasshoppers pummeled his face by the hundreds as wildfire rushed through the high desert near the Oregon-Idaho border. Two weeks ago as winds...
'Liberty Justice' sues Oregon school district that fired coach over trans issues
(The CEnter Square) - The Liberty Justice Center recently filed a First Amendment lawsuit against a school district in Oregon on behalf of a high school track and field coach who the district fired for proposing an open division for male athletes who identify as transgender, according to a press release from the organization. The Lake Oswego School Board fired head track and field coach John Parks after he wrote a letter proposing an open division for what was then the upcoming track and field...
Coastal tribes, nonprofit work to bring sea otters back to Oregon: ‘It's a chance to really shift a paradigm’
CANNON BEACH, Ore. — Chanel Hason gets a lot of false reports of sea otters on the Oregon Coast. "I get email several times a month of someone saying they saw a sea otter running along the beach in Oregon somewhere,” said Hason. “It's very, very rare that it's actually a sea otter.”
Oregon conservationists win funding to restore riverside habitats
A conservation group in Springfield has won $8.5 million in federal funding, which will pay for floodplain restorations along the Willamette River and its tributaries. The plan is to reconnect waterways in the Upper Willamette Basin to several of their historic offshoots and side-channels. The McKenzie Watershed Alliance is receiving federal dollars on behalf of its partners in the Upper Willamette Stewardship Network.
A tanker plane crash has killed a firefighting pilot in Oregon as Western wildfires spread
Communities in the U.S. West and Canada were under siege from raging wildfires on Friday, as a fast-moving blaze sparked by lightning sent people fleeing on fire-ringed roads in rural Idaho and a human-caused inferno forced evacuations in northern California.
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