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The Port of Coos Bay is planning a $2.3 billion project that would create a massive deep-water terminal where large cargo ships drop off 20 to 40-foot-long shipping containers full of goods from across the Pacific Ocean.
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The drive to generate clean wind power off the state's south coast went off the rails. Here's how, and what's next
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The state air board will vote on changes to its landmark clean fuel program that would cut more greenhouse gases but could raise the cost of gas and diesel.
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When performance venues closed for an uncertain period of time during the pandemic, playwright/director Octavio Solis thought he might have to leave theater behind. In that first year of global shutdown, though, he revisited the writing of Samuel Beckett - and hatched a plan to produce a festival of Beckett鈥檚 short works in Ashland. JPR Arts Reporter Vanessa Finney recently spoke with Solis about the innovative project.
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Counties will approach enforcement differently, providing yet another large-scale experiment in drug policy.
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On the ballot in Josephine County this November is a tax levy that would support one office that helps veterans apply for government benefits. Veterans are trying to build support for this measure.
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A non-profit group fights an uphill battle to save the victims of a massive outbreak of avian botulism that continues to ravage waterfowl at one of the Klamath National Wildlife Refuges.
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Where some see a 鈥渞ural neighborhood watch鈥 that saves money, others worry about liability and ties to extremism
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The Ashland New Plays Festival presents four plays October 16-20 at Southern Oregon University's Main Stage Theatre. Two finalists of the annual competition, Novid Parsi and Keiko Green, tell JPR's Vanessa Finney what audiences can expect.
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Sara Bristol has been mayor in Grants Pass for the past four years and is running again. Challenging her is Clint Scherf, who previously served as a city councilor for three years.
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In Eureka, a plan to turn parking lots into affordable housing seemed like an idea everyone might agree on. Instead, it has led to a fierce debate about the city鈥檚 future and the most expensive ballot measure campaign in the county鈥檚 history.
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Should California change the state constitution to remove language allowing involuntary servitude as a punishment for a crime? Raise the statewide minimum wage from $16 to $18? Or issue $10 billion in bonds to improve school sites across the state?
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California over decades sterilized thousands of people in state prisons, state-run homes and hospitals. Lawmakers created a reparations program for them, but it has denied most applications.
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Oregon judges have released four people from prison, finding Gov. Tina Kotek鈥檚 orders that revoked their early release unlawfully violated their rights.