Hoot hoot hooray: Oregon Zoo welcomes pair of snowy owls
Two snowy owls are making themselves at home in the Oregon Zoo’s North America area this month.…
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UO, OSU and PSU each earn $1 million innovation awards from National Science Foundation
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, and Reps. Earl Blumenauer, Suzanne Bonamici, Val Hoyle and Andrea Salinas said Thursday…
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Merkley testifies at hearing on his legislation to assure legal cannabis businesses can access critical banking services
(Update: Adding Wyden, Booker, Schumer joint statement) WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — The Senate Banking Committee held a hearing Thursday on the Secure…
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Merkley, Booker introduce bill to create pollinator habitats surrounding solar power projects
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker introduced Thursday the Pollinator Power Act, new legislation…
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OSU to lead federal effort to advance semiconductor technologies in Northwest
Oregon State University will spearhead a $1 million National Science Foundation project to advance semiconductor technologies in the Pacific…
Continue Reading‘Money, power, sex’: Idaho jury deliberates case against slain kids’ mom in alleged doomsday plot
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho jury is weighing the fate of a woman charged in the slayings of her two youngest…
Continue Reading Merkley, Wyden cosponsor $1 billion bill to support, boost America’s public school teachers
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden are cosponsoring the EDUCATORS for America Act, major legislation that would help raise…
Continue ReadingOregon bill that would decriminalize homeless encampments and propose penalties if unhoused people are harassed will not move forward
By Steve Almasy, Laura Studley and Nouran Salahieh, CNN An Oregon bill that would decriminalize homeless encampments in public places and allow…
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Oregon Health Authority lifts COVID-19 response measures as federal emergency ends
In alignment with the federal COVID-19 public health emergency ending Thursday, state health officials announced Wednesday the lifting of…
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Jump to a conclusion: OSU researcher IDs fossil insect as new genus, species of prodigious leaper, the froghopper
A fossil arthropod entombed in 100-million-year-old Burmese amber has been identified as a new genus and species of froghopper, known today as an…
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Oregon’s wet, snowy spring may delay wildfire season, but officials say it still could be above-average, challenging
Gov. Tina Kotek and agency leaders who manage wildfires and conflagrations provided a briefing Tuesday as the 2023 wildfire season approaches,…
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Second large sinkhole forms at Cape Kiwanda on Oregon coast; visitors urged to use caution, stay back
The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department is asking visitors to use caution and to stay away from the area where a second sinkhole has formed at…
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Meet Quori: OSU is leading a $5 million effort to speed robotics research with this standardized robot
Researchers at Oregon State University are part of a $5 million National Science Foundation effort to accelerate robotics research by making…
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Chavez-DeRemer, colleagues urge US Trade Rep, USDA to target Japan’s ‘damaging’ frozen blueberry tariffs
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05) joined Reps. Rick Larsen (WA-02), David Valadao (CA-22) and a bipartisan group of her…
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Oregon DHS to replace SNAP food benefits for victims of card skimming, other electronic theft
Starting Monday, May 22, the Oregon Department of Human Services will begin replacing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food benefits…
Continue ReadingU of Idaho awarding posthumous degrees to stabbing victims
MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — The University of Idaho will award posthumous degrees and certificates on Saturday to four students who were killed in a…
Continue ReadingMan convicted of killing corrections director fully freed
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man who spent nearly three decades in prison for the 1989 killing of Oregon’s prisons director has been granted his full…
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Gov. Kotek orders flags lowered to half-staff in honor, remembrance of Allen, Texas shooting victims
Gov. Tina Kotek ordered all flags at Oregon public institutions to be flown at half-staff immediately Monday in honor and remembrance of the victims…
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‘Fire is a family’: Oregon Dept. of Forestry deploys 22 firefighters to help battle Alberta, Canada blazes
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Oregon Department of Forestry is deploying 22 firefighters to Alberta, Canada through the Northwest Compact to provide…
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Gov. Kotek signs 2 bills to phase out foam food takeout containers, ‘peanuts,’ reduce plastic pollution
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Gov. Tina Kotek signed two bills into law Monday to address the growing environmental and public health impacts of single-use…
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