Contaminated Columbia River island added to Superfund list
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added a contaminated island on the…
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added a contaminated island on the…
Continue ReadingA giant white sturgeon more than seven feet long was among five sturgeon seized and released by Oregon State Police Fish & Wildlife troopers…
Continue ReadingBy RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a measure that prohibits legal action against…
Continue ReadingThere are 35 newly reported COVID-19-related deaths in Oregon, three from Deschutes County, raising the state’s death toll to 6,933, the Oregon…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Prosecutors say a 20-year-old man who hit a Seattle police officer on the head with an aluminum baseball bat during a 2020…
Continue ReadingFederal spending legislation signed into law Tuesday includes funding for several Oregon State University initiatives, including a wave energy…
Continue ReadingOn March 2, the World Organization for Animal Health confirmed a bald eagle found dead in British Columbia, Canada tested positive for the highly…
Continue ReadingTACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say one of two Pierce County Sheriff’s deputies wounded in an exchange of gunfire as they tried to arrest a man…
Continue ReadingFar-right activist Ammon Bundy has again been convicted of trespassing at the Idaho Capitol…
Continue ReadingYAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Police say a 16-year-old shot in an altercation near a high school in Yakima, Washington, Tuesday afternoon has died. KIMA-TV…
Continue ReadingOregon State University will use a new $14.4 million grant from Oregon’s Early Learning Division to establish a statewide center focused on…
Continue ReadingTUMWATER, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say a man stole a car with a 10-month-old boy inside it from a gas station in Tumwater, Washington. The child…
Continue ReadingSPRINGFIELD, Ore. (AP) — A federal lawsuit alleges two Springfield, Oregon, police officers failed to use non-lethal force or de-escalate an…
Continue ReadingThe University of Oregon’s Board of Trustees approved tuition and fee hikes Tuesday for the upcoming school year, but a “guaranteed tuition model”…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — One of the founders of a Portland-based pet rescue and adoption organization is facing federal fraud conspiracy charges,…
Continue ReadingThere are 14 newly reported COVID-19-related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 6,899, the Oregon Health Authority reported…
Continue ReadingA major Boise hospital went on lockdown for about an hour Tuesday after far-right activist Ammon Bundy urged supporters to go the facility in protest…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A major Boise hospital was locked down for about an hour after far-right activist Ammon Bundy…
Continue ReadingAn active landslide has closed a stretch of U.S. Highway 101 in both directions Tuesday along the northern Oregon coast at milepost 47, north of…
Continue ReadingAfter cresting above $123 per barrel shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the price of crude oil has gradually fallen below $100 per…
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