The Oregon Employment Department has applied to the federal Lost Wages Assistance program through FEMA to provide jobless residents with an extra $300 per week in unemployment benefits.
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Oregon State University has received a $1.2 million grant from the Oregon Health Authority to expand its Coronavirus Sewer Surveillance project throughout Oregon to comb community wastewater systems for genetic evidence of the virus that causes COVID-19.
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – With in-person public schooling delayed in many communities across Oregon, families need to know what options are available for safe child care for their school-age children. The Oregon Early Learning Division, the state agency responsible for regulating early education and child care, is sharing information with families about how to make
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Better Business Bureau Northwest + Pacific alerted consumers Wednesday of a fraudulent auto sales and shipping website claiming to have BBB accreditation.
Continue ReadingThe American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, alleging agents sent by President Donald Trump to protect a federal courthouse targeted by Black Lives Matter protesters used excessive force and illegal detentions to rob protesters of their freedom of speech and assembly.
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Parts of Central Oregon are still in an air quality alert until 11PM Wednesday night.
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Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senate Aging Committee Ranking Member Bob Casey, D-Pa., on Wednesday highlighted worsening shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) reported by nursing homes across the country in recent weeks.
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There’s no barrier at the entrance to the Big River Campgrounds off Century Drive, near Sunriver.
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COVID-19 has claimed six more lives in Oregon, including a 55-year-old Jefferson County resident who died Tuesday at St. Charles Bend, raising the state’s death toll to 433, the Oregon Health Authority reported Wednesday.
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The more than week-old lightning-sparked wildfires burning across Central Oregon are again seeing higher containment figures Wednesday, thanks to hundreds of firefighters on the lines and in the air.
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Air quality in Central Oregon is usually excellent. During fire season, however, our air quality can rapidly decline to unhealthy levels, as wildfires belch smoke and ash into the air.
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Two of the eight irrigation districts in the Deschutes River Basin have shut off their water supply due to the drought declaration and low water levels in the region.
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The Council on Aging of Central Oregon announced Wednesday that they are underway with the first phase of their new Senior Services Center building renovations at 1036 NE 5th Street in Bend.
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The Bend Park and Recreation District, in partnership with Bend-La Pine Schools, will offer a limited-space, all-day child care program at Bend elementary schools to support working families during the Comprehensive Distance Learning period that will begin the 2020-21 school year.
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Describing it as a difficult but prudent decision, University of Oregon President Michael Schill announced Wednesday that the school will shift to primarily remote instruction for fall term, due to the ongoing spread of COVID-19 across the country.
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Mt. Bachelor’s Play It Forward Fund recently granted the Family Access Network (FAN) $25,000 to connect children and families to basic-need resources in Central Oregon.
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Rioters in Portland smashed windows at City Hall in a demonstration that started Tuesday night and stretched into Wednesday morning, and police made 23 arrests as they dispersed the crowd in Oregon’s largest city, officials said.
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The Roseburg man suspected of shooting cars along Interstate 5 in Oregon from his UPS tractor-trailer rig remained in jail Tuesday on $1 million bail.
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Authorities arrested anti-government activist Ammon Bundy at the Idaho Statehouse on Tuesday after he refused to leave a meeting room where a few hours earlier angry protesters forced out lawmakers.
Continue ReadingStorm approaching Louisiana, Texas (CNN) — Hurricane Laura may reach extremely dangerous Category 4 strength before slamming into Louisiana and eastern Texas overnight and is expected to hit parts of the coast with “unsurvivable storm surge,” the National Hurricane Center says. Laura was moving over the Gulf of Mexico late Wednesday morning with maximum sustained winds of
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