Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., last week pressed the Small Business Administration to immediately fix a number of specific problems that have emerged in its botched implementation of the Paycheck Protection Program, designed to help small businesses stay afloat and keep employees on payroll.
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Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., last week pressed the Trump Administration to ensure that people experiencing homelessness in Oregon and nationwide receive access to coronavirus relief payments.
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Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley called on the Small Business Administration and U.S. Department of Treasury on Friday to provide immediate clarification on tribal eligibility for the new Paycheck Protection Program and Emergency Economic Injury Grants.
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We had more clear, sunny skies on the High Desert on Sunday. Temperatures topped out a few degrees below average, though. But, as the headline of this article would indicate, a warmup is on the way. Monday brings another day of clear skies, topping out in the low 50s for most of Central Oregon. Those
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Oregon State University will carry out large-scale mapping of the electrical properties of Earth’s crust and mantle beneath the southern and southwestern U.S. under a new two-year, $2.5 million cooperative agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey.
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The Oregon State University College of Forestry invites everyone to a new, weekly Stay at Home Lecture Series that started April 9 and features a variety of presenters talking about everything from recreation in national parks to a secretive seabird.
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Free inspection takes 5-10 minutes; protective measures in place SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — While the state is currently not recommending out-of-state residents visit the state for recreation due to the governor’s Stay Home, Save Lives order, all watercraft entering Oregon are still required to be inspected at an aquatic invasive species station, when they are
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COVID-19 has claimed one more life in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 52, the Oregon Health Authority reported Sunday.
Continue ReadingSens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced Friday that over $116 million will be distributed among 73 colleges, universities and community colleges throughout Oregon to provide direct emergency cash grants to college students whose lives and educations have been disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak.
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An intoxicated transient who challenged passing cars and a jogger in southeast Bend early Saturday evening tried to assault officers and choked, kicked and punched a deployed police K-9 before he was placed in a restraint device, arrested and taken to St. Charles Bend, officers said.
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A classic car parade took place by High Desert Haven on Saturday to honor Jack, a welder who’s worked on many a classic over the years.
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The Parks community in west Bend came together Saturday with buckets of chalk to spread messages of hope and support on their streets and sidewalks.
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Antioch Church, a non-denominational church in Bend, provided a drive-through display of the Stations of the Cross.
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The Giving Plate partnered with Moving to Bend and the MOMS Club of Bend on Saturday to give families Easter baskets and grab bags, as well as gift certificates donated by Jackson’s Corner.
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is cancelling its outdoor education events through May 31—including hunter education classes, outdoor workshops and family fishing events—due to the continuing statewide effort to slow the spread of COVID-19.. ODFW is taking these steps to protect our participants, volunteers, staff and others. Additionally, closures of
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Nearly half of the 51 COVID-19 deaths in Oregon so far have happened at seven long-term care facilities, officials said Saturday, prompting stepped-up state efforts to help those facilities try to reduce the spread of the virus.
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Sunday you’ll be waking up to sunny skies once again, although it will be a little cooler than Saturday was, with temperatures slightly below average. We will have clear, sunny days on the High Desert through Tuesday, with clouds beginning to roll in on Wednesday at the earliest. Even with partly cloudy days expected Wednesday
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New projections from health researchers released Saturday estimate that Oregon’s “aggressive” social distancing measures have prevented as many as 18,000 cases of COVID-19 and 500 hospitalizations.
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Ten residents of a nursing home in Portland have died in Oregon’s largest known cluster of deaths from the coronavirus.
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., announced this week they are asking that the Small Business Administration be prohibited from denying loan applications to cannabis small businesses in states like Oregon that have legalized cannabis use. In the Oregon lawmakers’ letter to Senate colleagues overseeing SBA appropriations, they urged language prohibiting
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