Month: June 2019

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – After lengthy debate, the Oregon House on Monday approved an economy-wide cap-and trade-program. The program established under House Bill 2020 would put an overall limit on greenhouse gas emissions and auction off pollution “allowances” for each ton of carbon industries plan to emit. Only the state’s largest polluters would be targeted.

Researchers at Oregon State University and Oregon Health & Science University say they have found a possible counterpunch to the drug resistance of melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer. The findings, published Tuesday in the journal Molecular Carcinogenesis, are important because in the United States alone, almost 100,000 new melanoma cases will be

Jefferson County Fire District No. 1 crews responded to three fires in a matter of hours on Monday, prompting a reminder that fire danger is on the rise in the region, along with the temperatures. Crews were called around 11:30 a.m. to a reported house fire in the 500 block of Southeast 10th Street in

Good Tuesday Morning, Everyone… We sit at the leading edge of a ridge of high pressure and that will dictate another sunny, warm and breezy day for Central Oregon. Highs will reach the low to mid 80’s and NW winds will pick up to 10 -20 mph with gusts to 25 mph . Skies will

ATTENTION drivers! School is out (or close to it!) all over Oregon, and our streets are coming alive with walkers, bicyclists, skaters, skateboarders and more. If you needed an excuse to put down the distraction, you’ve got one: it could save a young person’s life, the Oregon Department of Transportation advised Monday For those ready

Hospitals are required nationally to do community benefit under the Affordable Care Act, but there are no minimums. The Oregon Senate passed legislation Monday designed to ensure more nonprofit hospitals are holding up their end of the bargain, supporters said. House Bill 3076 – which passed with a 20-8 vote on the Senate floor –

Residents in an area of the Wheeler County town of Mitchell were advised to shelter in place for a time Monday night due to what dispatchers called a “critical incident involving guns,” which ended with one person in custody. The alert sent around 9:20 p.m. by Frontier Dispatch told residents to “please avoid the Main

SEASIDE, Ore. (AP) – Officials with Seaside Aquarium say a female gray whale was found washed ashore Friday south of Sunset Beach. Biologists at the aquarium performed a necropsy on the 23-foot whale, but “nothing too telling was found,” the aquarium said in a Facebook post. Officials say they collected heart, lung and stomach content,

COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) – Authorities say an emergency communication tower near the Oregon coast has been destroyed, causing over $60,000 in damage. The World reports the Coos County Sheriff’s Office is offering a reward for the identification and conviction of the people responsible. The sheriff’s office says the damage was discovered Monday morning when

Bethlehem Inn started 20 years ago as a result of concerned citizens and local churches whose goal was to provide warm, safe shelter for people experiencing homelessness during the cold winter months. Since 1999, community compassion and support of the Inn’s vision and mission has flourished, enabling the organization to transition from volunteer-based to one

Mt. Bachelor announced Monday it will offer a ” fun, new and engaging guest experience for the 2019-20 season that includes a Woodward Mountain Park with expanded learning terrain, ” enhancements to the Sunrise lodge (including more parking) and improvements to how guests park and access the mountain, which they said ” will make it

Happy Monday evening, everyone! Tonight we’ll see breezy winds at times as we approach sunset. Winds will top around 25 to 30 miles per hour. Overnight under mostly clear skies our winds will calm. Low temperatures will bottom out in the mid to upper 40s, which is above normal. Tuesday will see another nice, warm

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is throwing out an Oregon court ruling against bakers who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. The justices’ action Monday keeps the high-profile case off the court’s election-year calendar and orders state judges to take a new look at the dispute between the lesbian couple

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon House of Representatives Monday passed a bill that would create new fees on oil train cars to pay for spill prevention and planning in the state. The House passed House Bill 2209 on a 55-3 vote, according to a report by The Oregonian/OregonLive, sending it to the state Senate

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The bodies of a Salem mother and her 3-year-old son have been found more than a month after they vanished, hidden in a forest where the boy’s father cut wood, authorities said Monday. “Really good detective work” led authorities to find the bodies of Karissa and Billy Fretwell on Saturday in

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — All seven of Oregon’s public universities will raise tuition for the 2019-2020 school year, with officials citing increased costs and less money than expected from legislators. The hikes range from 2.33% at Western Oregon University in Monmouth to 9.9% at Ashland’s Southern Oregon University. Gov. Kate Brown had made education a

Jefferson County authorities on Monday identified an Oregon City man who tried to dive off a pontoon boat at Lake Billy Chinook, hit his head on a railing and sank out of sight. Search efforts so far have proven unsuccessful for either of Central Oregon’s two apparent drowning victims in two days. Sheriff Jim Adkins

Good Monday Morning, Everyone… We will see just enough high pressure to keep us warm and pretty clear today. With just a few high, thin clouds we can expect highs to reach the mid 80’s . Breezes will be gentle out of the north at 5 -10 mph . We will stay very mild once

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon is on the precipice of becoming the second state after California to adopt a cap-and-trade program, a market-based approach to lowering the greenhouse gas emissions behind global warming. Supporters call House Bill 2020 the United States’ most progressive climate policy, saying it not only cuts emissions but invests in transitioning

Oregon is falling behind other states when comes to the well-being of its children, a new report says. The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2019 KIDS COUNT Data Book ranks the state 31st overall in its measure of how children are doing in four categories: economic well-being, education, health, and family and community. Chris Coughlin, legislative