PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Oregon political community is remembering Representative Hòa Nguyễn, who lost her battle with cancer this week. Nguyễn joined the state legislature in 2023, becoming one of five Vietnamese Americans elected to the Oregon House. She represented House District 48, which stretches from East Portland to Damascus. Her close friend and
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By Meena Duerson, Meridith Edwards, CNN (CNN) — A former family doctor who has been accused of abuse by more than 160 of his patients surrendered to authorities Friday in Oregon, where he was arraigned on felony sexual abuse charges. David B. Farley turned himself in at the Clackamas County Jail in the early hours
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Oregon Military Department sponsored the 2025 Oregon Labor Summit Friday at the Oregon Army National Guard Aviation Support Facility in Salem, bringing together service members, educators, industry partners, and community leaders to strengthen connections between military training and civilian workforce opportunities. Here’s the department’s news release on the event: The Labor
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By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced on Friday that the US will allow Qatar to build an Air Force facility at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, which will host Qatari F-15 fighter jets and pilots who will train alongside US troops. “The location will host a contingent
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Pump prices continue to ease in Oregon and most states, AAA Oregon/Idaho reported Tuesday, but a recent California refinery fire could send them the other direction locally. Here’s this week’s gas prices report from AAA Oregon/Idaho:Cheaper winter-blend gas and relatively low crude oil prices are putting downward pressure on pump prices.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Two California condors hatched and raised at the Oregon Zoo’s Jonsson Center for Wildlife Conservation are now soaring through the open skies of Arizona, marking another important step in the effort to save this critically endangered species from extinction. Condors No. 1254 and No. 1260 — who hatched at the Jonsson
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — More than 2.1 million Oregonians have filed their tax year 2024 state personal income tax returns this year. But with just six days before the tax filing extension deadline October 15, as many as 100,000 Oregonians are expected to sneak in under the wire. “It’s not unusual for there to be
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By Dareh Gregorian, Gary Grumbach, Selina Guevara, Samira Puskar and Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News NEW YORK (NBC News) — Challenges to President Donald Trump’s efforts to deploy National Guard troops in states that don’t want them were heard in two different courts Thursday, and got two very different receptions. While judges in the cases did not immediately issue rulings, a federal judge
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Oregon’s new state education data reveals a landscape marked by incremental progress and enduring challenges. For the first time since 2021, student test scores have improved across all major subjects— literacy, mathematics, and science.
However, the climb back to pre-pandemic achievement levels remains a daunting one, as proficiency percentages statewide are still lagging behind what was seen before COVID-19 disrupted classrooms and learning routines.
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — On Monday,, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Services Laboratory confirmed Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in a backyard flock of ducks and chickens in northeast Oregon’s Wallowa County. This is the first confirmed case of HPAI in Wallowa County, the Oregon Department of Agriculture said Tuesday in a news release that
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – An analysis of forest-based projects funded through the sale of carbon credits shows that 10% of them may have a net warming effect on the climate because of the way they alter the Earth’s albedo, or how much sunlight is reflected back into space. The study led by scientists in the Oregon State
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Two fault systems on North America’s West Coast – the Cascadia subduction zone and the San Andreas fault – may be synchronized, with earthquakes on one fault potentially triggering seismic events on the other, a new study found. “We’re used to hearing the ‘Big One’ – Cascadia – being this catastrophic huge thing,”
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and similar platforms are apparently no antidote for the global loneliness epidemic, according to Oregon State University research that linked increases in social media use with a greater likelihood of feeling alone. The study, led by Jessica Gorman of the OSU College of Health, was published Monday in the International
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Governor Tina Kotek signed an executive Monday that she said is aimed at accelerating the pace of Oregon’s renewable wind and solar project development before the clock runs out on critical federal clean energy tax credits. Here’s the news release from the governor’s office on Executive Order 25-25 and its goals:
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – FEMA is proposing new requirements for communities that participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. The draft plan for Oregon shifts the NFIP’s focus to include protecting fish habitat in floodplains, in response to federal endangered species concerns. The proposal includes a “no net loss” standard for floodplain development, meaning any
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(UPDATE: ADDED VIDEO) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A La Pine man leading the effort on a Governor recall has made significant strides. William Minnix, President of Oregon for the People, launched a petition to recall Oregon Governor Tina Kotek. KTVZ spoke with Minnix about how his recall is going. Minnix told KTVZ “Lately, it’s really
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Nearly 200 Oregon National Guard Soldiers assigned to the 1st Battalion, 186th Infantry Regiment will return home to Oregon on Friday. The Soldiers were mobilized on October 20, 2024, during a ceremony in Medford and served as part of the Multinational Force and Observers mission in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. The 1-186th Infantry Regiment,
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A Bend-based therapy group says a single dose of psilocybin mushrooms could lead to lasting mental health improvements, based on what they call the largest study of its kind in Oregon. Bendable Therapy’s Yearlong Study Bendable Therapy, a local provider that has offered psilocybin treatment for the past three years, released
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By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge is weighing Friday whether to grant a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops into Oregon as Trump officials say a “surge” of federal resources is headed to Portland. Oregon and Portland officials jointly sued the administration this week after Trump
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Oregon lawmakers this week approved a package of tax and fee hikes for stopgap funding to the Oregon Department of Transportation. But the agency is by no means out of the woods when it comes to being ready for winter and the need to keep highway and passes cleared of snow.
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