A new pilot program in Oregon will provide state liability coverage for prescribed fires.
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Despite many public warnings ahead of the summer, Oregon still saw multiple accidental drownings this year.
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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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Oregon has positioned itself to serve as a reproductive health care sanctuary for those in states with strict abortion bans. But advocates are still concerned that access might be chipped away.
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An Oregon prison guard sanctioned the attack of a man serving time at the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in 2022. After the attack, the Oregon Department of Corrections failed to meet the standards of medical care to treat 鈥渆xtreme and debilitating injuries.鈥
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Oregon Senator Ron Wyden met with high school students in Phoenix Thursday to take their hard-pressing questions on the environment, education and more.
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Small modular nuclear reactors would be located in southeast Washington.
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Backers of Oregon鈥檚 most contentious ballot measure are making a play for voters who鈥檝e been inundated with ads by their opponents.
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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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On Friday, Charles Hanley sent a notice of potential legal claims against the district, including defamation, retaliation, breach of contract, violation of procedural due process and wrongful discharge.
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Oregon farmworkers, many of them immigrants, face a housing market that is fraught with substandard living conditions or is financially out of reach.
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The widely-opposed measure would increase corporate taxes to send a rebate to all Oregonians.
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The project to build 36 affordable apartments for low-income veterans is moving forward, with a big grant from the state and renewed funding from Josephine County.
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Despite an encouraging national dip in the past year, overdose deaths are still on the rise in many Western states as the epicenter of the nation鈥檚 continuing crisis shifts toward the Pacific Coast, where deadly fentanyl and also methamphetamine are finding more victims.
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OHSU relies heavily on a single supplier, Baxter International, which suffered major damage to a critical North Carolina factory in Hurricane Helene.