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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland police have arrested a man several days after police say he caused alarm by pointing a large replica rifle at people…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland police have arrested a man several days after police say he caused alarm by pointing a large replica rifle at people…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — A large homeless encampment at Seattle’s City Hall Park that’s put city leaders under significant political pressure recently…
Continue ReadingBy CALEB JONES and VICTORIA MILKO Associated Press WAIMEA, Hawaii (AP) — Huge wildfires highlight the dangers of climate change-related heat and…
Continue ReadingBy GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Officials are investigating one possible heat-related death in Oregon from a Pacific…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists are accusing federal land managers of illegally withholding information about…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Local health officers throughout Washington state have issued a joint statement recommending all residents wear facial coverings in…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press Patients left on beds in hospital hallways, their monitoring machines beeping away as too few doctors and nurses…
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pac-12 teams that cannot play because of COVID-19 issues will likely be forced to forfeit games this season. The conference…
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers are starting the once-a-decade process of redrawing…
Continue ReadingNEWBERG, Ore. (AP) — The school board in Newberg, Oregon, has voted to ban on pride flags, flags reading Black Lives Matter and any broadly…
Continue ReadingBREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — A new federal rule expands protected habitat for the endangered southern resident orcas down the West Coast. The Center for…
Continue ReadingBy GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Volunteers are scrambling to hand out water to homeless people in isolated encampments in…
Continue ReadingAZALEA, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say they are investigating the deaths of two people found inside a burned trailer south of Roseburg in Azalea after…
Continue ReadingBy GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — People have headed to cooling centers as the Pacific Northwest began sweltering under…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police have confirmed that two members a hip-hop group with ties to the multiplatinum rap group Wu-Tang Clan were fatally…
Continue ReadingBy GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The unprecedented heat wave that swept the Pacific Northwest this summer killed scores of…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington is trying to keep a proposed Seattle charter amendment about homelessness off the…
Continue ReadingPENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — Local health leaders are looking into a COVID-19 outbreak linked to an outdoor music festival in eastern Oregon. KATU-TV…
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Gov. Kate Brown on Tuesday announced a statewide indoor mask requirement…
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press ROCKFORD, Wash. (AP) — A drought in eastern Washington state that is the worst since 1977 has devastated…
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