Month: March 2018

Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek and Senate President Peter Courtney announced Friday they will convene and co-chair a special Joint Committee on Carbon Reduction to continue the efforts to cut statewide carbon emissions and grow Oregon’s clean energy economy. The work of the Joint Committee on Carbon Reduction will focus on creating a cap-and-invest program

The Oregon House voted overwhelmingly Friday to establish domestic violence strangulation as a felony. Chief sponsored by Senator Kathleen Taylor (D-Milwaukie), Representative Duane Stark (R-Grants Pass) and a host of additional lawmakers, SB 1562 makes the crime of strangulation a felony when the victim is a family member or someone who lives with the abuser,

The search for Sara Gomez, a Bend woman missing for nearly two weeks, entered a new, wider chapter on Saturday as dozens of concerned community members joined family and friends in searching east of Bend for the 24-year-old woman. The organizers of the search that began at Big Sky Park brought together friends family and

PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) – Ethan Thompson scored 23 points while dishing out six assists and Oregon State embarrassed Washington State, 92-67 on the last day of the regular season Saturday. Oregon State (15-15, 7-11 Pac-12) blew things open from the start going on a 20-2 run over the course of 5:17. The Beavers shot 61

SEATTLE (AP) – Payton Pritchard scored 14 points and Paul White added 13 as Oregon turned back a late rally by Washington to preserve a 72-64 victory on Saturday to end the Pac-12 Conference regular season. Washington, which trailed 44-29 at the half, used a 9-2 run to pull within 68-64 with 3:12 remaining, but

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon Legislature has passed a measure in response to President Donald Trump’s tax overhaul, blocking a deduction in state taxes of money held overseas. The measure approved Saturday would expand a clause in Oregon’s tax code to cover money held overseas, which the federal overhaul gives a one-time tax-break to.

As part of an ongoing campaign to halt the spread of invasive weeds, a consortium of partner groups will treat numerous sites on public and private lands in Crook, Wheeler, Grant and Jefferson counties this year, thanks in part to grants recently disbursed by the Oregon State Weed Board. Often overlooked or unrecognized by the

Hello everyone! A cold day with daytime highs right around freezing. It was a mostly cloudy day with scattered snow showers. This will continue throughout the evening and night. Around 9 o’clock the storm will dissipate leaving us with partly cloudy skies overnight and cold temperatures in the 20’s. Sunday we’ll have partly cloudy skies

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – A proposal to ease commercial hemp cultivation has passed the Oregon Legislature. Under a measure approved by the Senate on Saturday, hemp seed would be classed as an agricultural seed. The state Department of Agriculture must lay out standards, including identification documents. A variety of cannabis, hemp is bred to produce

A Deschutes County judge sentenced a 38-year-old Utah man to 70 days in jail and three years probation Friday for setting two fires among at least four found burning south of Bend to south of La Pine within a span of a few hours last August. In a plea petition filed Monday, Christopher Glen Wilson,

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon’s legislature has moved to expand the list of medical professionals who can who can clear youth athletes to return to play after being suspected of having a concussion. Under a measure passed Saturday, chiropractors, naturopaths, physical therapists, occupational therapists and physician assistants would be added to the list. Legislators made

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A highly decorated active-duty Marine who slammed a chair into the neck and shoulder of an employee at an Iraqi restaurant in Portland has been sentenced to five years of probation and $21,000 in fines. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Damien Rodriguez was charged with a hate crime and assault that could have

A group of agencies and nonprofits, led by the City of Sisters, is embarking on a visioning and planning initiative to help determine what kind of community residents want Sisters Country to be in five, 10 and 20 years. The Sisters Country Horizons initiative will officially launch with a regional survey of residents in mid-March.

The Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems announced Friday it had worked with lawmakers to pass legislation that will clarify and standardize the financial assistance policies of all Oregon hospitals. The legislative language was added to HB 4020, which passed Friday in Salem. “Hospitals sought this legislation because it will ensure clarity around how

(Update: Oregon Senate joins House in passing legislation, sending to governor) The opioid epidemic is a serious problem plaguing communities all over the state and nation, and the Oregon Legislature did something about it this week. House Bill 4143 – which passed the Senate unanimously Friday, after late-Thursday passage by the House – requires the

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon Legislature’s response to President Donald Trump’s federal tax overhaul will capture more than $200 million more than the state needs to meet lawmakers’ goals, if predictions from the state’s head economist prove accurate. Lawmakers have portrayed their plan as a way to avoid a negative impact on the state

(Update: Senate joins in passage, bill goes to governor) SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon Senate has approved updated rules for responding to data breaches. Under the measure which passed unanimously Friday, consumers would have access to free placement, removal, and temporary lifts of credit freezes. Freezes are frequently recommended to consumers after data has

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Mushers, barking dogs and excited fans are converging on Alaska’s largest city for the ceremonial start of the famed Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The Saturday morning trek through downtown Anchorage gives fans a chance to mingle with mushers and their teams. The competitive portion of the race to Nome begins

Here are Friday’s Oregon high school basketball scores, as compiled by The Associated Press: BOYS PREP BASKETBALL Class 5A First Round Crater 51, Hermiston 43 Class 4A First Round Seaside 43, Gladstone 32 Class 3A Consolation Semifinal Cascade Christian 42, Oregon Episcopal 31 Irrigon 58, Horizon Christian Tualatin 50 Class 3A Semifinal Dayton 59, Santiam

Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies used Naloxone Hyrdochloride, or ‘Narcan,’ twice in two days to save the same La Pine-area woman’s life, the agency reported Friday. Deputies responded just after 5 p.m. Thursday to a woman’s reported drug overdose, Sgt. William Bailey. Responding deputies arrived within six minutes after receiving the call and administered a single