CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Artificial intelligence analysis of data gathered by acoustic recording devices is a promising new tool for monitoring the marbled murrelet and other secretive, hard-to-study species, research by Oregon State University and the U.S. Forest Service has shown. The threatened marbled murrelet is an iconic Pacific Northwest seabird that’s closely related to
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon joins its partners across the federal government, as well as people throughout American Indian and Alaska Native communities, in recognizing Sunday, May 5, as National Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day. The office also announced Friday the appointment of an MMIP
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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Dozens of searchers from six Oregon and Northern California counties searched an area west of Klamath Falls on Saturday for a missing mushroom hunter last seen heading into the woods alone Thursday afternoon. The Klamath County Sheriff’s Office was notified shortly before noon Friday that Gerald “Jerry” Duane Severson, a
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SEATTLE (AP) — A zebra that has been hoofing through the foothills of western Washington for days was recaptured Friday evening, nearly a week after she escaped with three other zebras from a trailer near Seattle. Local residents and animal control officers corralled the zebra named “Shug” in the community of Riverbend, about 30 miles
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., said Friday they are co-sponsoring the Next Step Home Act, a crucial piece of legislation aimed at restoring voting rights for people with felony convictions who have been released under the First Step Act and successfully re-entered society. “Making voting easy and accessible shouldn’t be a Democratic or Republican issue.
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Few companies have lost more than the $32 billion that Boeing has lost in the last five years. And fewer companies could lose that kind of money and not be facing bankruptcy — or worse. That’s because the company is part of a unique duopoly, one of
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Safety lapses at the Oregon State Hospital contributed to recent patient-on-patient assaults, a federal report on the state’s most secure inpatient psychiatric facility has found. The investigation by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found that staff didn’t always adequately supervise their patients and that the hospital didn’t fully investigate acts of aggression, Oregon
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon DMV offices have been experiencing slowdowns in services due to intermittent delays with their printers, officials said Friday. “That means your visit may take longer than usual, and we appreciate your patience while we work to fix the problem,” which is expected to continue into next week, the agency said
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By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A zebra that escaped from a trailer east of Seattle last weekend remained on the lam Friday, as authorities closed off trailheads at a nature area in hopes of keeping people away and easing her capture. The zebra was one of four that escaped as they were
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – To recognize National Wildfire Awareness Month, Pacific Power is encouraging Oregonians to prepare for fire season. Fire weather conditions, such as severe drought combined with summer windstorms or active wildfires, could lead to safety-related power outages. Long-term forecasts are indicating 2024 will have a warmer and drier than normal summer, with the
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Senator Ron Wyden demanded Thursday that Intuit make whole all Oregon taxpayers whose recent use of the company’s TurboTax product incorrectly led them to overpay their state tax. In a letter to Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi, Wyden cited a recent report that a TurboTax software error opted Oregon taxpayers into claiming the standard deduction
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW/KTVZ) — A group of pro-Palestinian protesters reentered Portland State University’s library Thursday evening, eventually prompting police to return and re-clear the building, making more arrests, KGW reported. Police also were looking for the public’s help to find 18 others who fled earlier. Officers had arrested at least seven more people as of
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police said Thursday they detained the driver of a white Toyota Camry who briefly accelerated toward a crowd of pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Portland State University in Oregon and then ran off spraying what appeared to be pepper spray toward protesters who confronted him. The man was taken to a hospital on
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., and Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., have introduced two bipartisan bills that would extend existing programs to continue important water management programs and address long-term drought in the West. The Drought Preparedness Act and the Water Data Improvement Act would reauthorize current programs managed by the U.S. Department of Interior and
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Officers arrested 12 people, including four Portland State University students, Thursday morning during an operation to clear the PSU library of pro-Palestinian protesters, the Portland Police Bureau reported. Protesters had occupied the library since Monday, KGW reported.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — At least 15 Portland Police training vehicles were damaged or destroyed by an arsonist early Thursday, the agency said. Shortly before 2 a.m., Portland Police North Precinct was dispatched to assist Portland Fire & Rescue at the Portland Police Training Division, located in the 14900 block of Northeast Airport Way. When
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WASHNGTON (KTVZ) — Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Wednesday reintroduced the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act, comprehensive legislation that would end the federal cannabis prohibition by removing cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act; empower states to create their own cannabis
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By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday rejected a long-running lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists who argued that the U.S. government’s role in climate change violated their constitutional rights. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals previously ordered the case dismissed in 2020, saying that
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The Oregon Public Utility Commission hosted a virtual event for the public Tuesday evening to comment on Pacific Power’s proposal to increase to electricity rates next year, including a nearly 22% hike for residential customers. But there’s still several weeks for the public to weigh in.
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) –The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the bipartisan Antisemitism Awareness Act (H.R. 6090), which would help ensure antisemitic hate crimes on college campuses are properly investigated and prosecuted, with Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer in support. Here’s the news release her office issued after her vote: DeRemer (OR-05), who has been an outspoken advocate for Jewish students
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