SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon National Guard Soldiers and Airmen took part in Memorial Day services and community events around the state on Monday, pausing to remember fallen service members who have given their lives in defense of the nation. Beaverton Mayor Lacey Beaty, an Army veteran, along with her husband, Oregon Army National Guard Maj.
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An outbreak of paralytic shellfish poisoning that sickened at least 20 people is prompting state health officials to urge those who harvested mussels from a now-closed stretch of Oregon’s coast since Saturday to discard the mollusks.
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MANZANITA, Ore. (KTVZ) – A dead humpback whale washed ashore Monday morning at Nehalem State Park near Manzanita, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department confirmed. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is working to determine the cause of death, but results may not be available for a week, OPRD said. The whale washed ashore
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ONTARIO, Ore. (KTVZ) – A fight between two inmates Saturday afternoon in a recreation yard at the Snake River Correctional Institution led to a larger disturbance involving nearly 70 inmates that only stopped when guards fired two warning shots from an observation tower, officials said. The incident began around 1:40 p.m. Saturday with a “one-on-one
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Dotson, Steve Almasy and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Bill Walton, the basketball Hall of Fame center who won two national titles at UCLA, two NBA championships in Portland and Boston and later put the “color” in color commentator, died Monday following a prolonged battle with cancer, the NBA announced. Walton was 71.
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley on Thursday joined the reintroduction for a third time of legislation they say would strengthen the U.S. Department of Justice’s and state governments’ ability to hold police and other officials accountable for discriminatory practices. After Michael Brown was fatally shot by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – During Mental Health Awareness Month, Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley and Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-05) announced the reintroduction of the Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Act, legislation that would greatly boost the availability of mental health providers in America’s public schools. Mental illness affects 20% of American youth. This bicameral legislation will put
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Sen. Ron Wyden, chair of the Senate Committee on Finance, joined with four congressional colleagues last week to urge top federal officials to investigate use and disclosures of legally protected and sensitive taxpayer information by tax prep companies. The letter from Wyden and the four members of the Senate and House follows
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The public is invited to comment on the draft 2025-29 Oregon Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP) titled Balance and Engagement: Sustaining the Benefits for All Oregonians. A copy of the draft SCORP document and support documents are posted online for public review. The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD) will accept comments
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Summer is when the outdoors truly start calling to Oregonians. Oregon Lottery is capturing the spirit of the campers, hikers, adventure-seekers and anglers with a new Oregon State Park-themed Scratch-it. The $5 tickets feature three nostalgic scenes of park landscapes and fishing, have a top prize of $50,000, and are on sale now
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon consumers can get a first look at requested rates for 2025 individual and small group health insurance plans, the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services announced Thursday. In what DCBS called a major win for Oregonians, Moda will become the fifth company to offer health insurance in every single
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After a two-day bench trial, the U.S. Department of Labor said, a federal judge has ordered the U.S. Postal Service to pay $141,307 in lost wages and damages for emotional distress suffered to an Oregon probationary mail carrier who the agency fired after they reported an on-the-job injury to their supervisor and filed an accident report.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – As people gather and travel to celebrate Pride Month in June, health officials are reminding Oregonians about the importance of protecting themselves and their community by getting the mpox vaccine. Dean Sidelinger, M.D., M.S.Ed., health officer and state epidemiologist at the Oregon Health Authority, said the number of mpox infections in
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) —The Oregon Beach Monitoring Program is kicking off the 2024 beach monitoring season by announcing the list of coastal recreation areas it will be keeping an eye on for bacteria during summer and early fall. The 24 beaches on the list that the OBMP, based at the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) Public
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Oregon Department of Forestry and the Oregon State Fire Marshal are convening a workgroup to discuss solutions for sustainable wildfire mitigation and suppression funding to address the growing wildfire crisis. The Legislature tasked the two agencies with establishing the workgroup through House Bill 5701 in the 2024 legislative session. The group
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Responders continued surveying and cleanup efforts Saturday for a tar-like substance washing up on shorelines and impacting wildlife since last Sunday from Long Beach, Washington to south of Newport.
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – What if a common element rather than scarce, expensive ones was a key component in electric car batteries? A collaboration co-led by an Oregon State University chemistry researcher is hoping to spark a green battery revolution by showing that iron instead of cobalt and nickel can be used as a cathode
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Governor Tina Kotek on Friday ordered all flags at Oregon public institutions to be flown at half-staff pursuant of 4 U.S.C. 7m and the President’s Proclamation on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27, from 12:01 a.m. until noon. “On Memorial Day, we honor all our heroes and fallen soldiers, and keep them and their
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The 142nd Wing out of Portland Air National Guard Base will conduct Memorial Day flyovers for ceremonies at locations throughout northwest Oregon and southwest Washington. “We support the Memorial Day flyovers to honor the great men and women who have given their all in defense of this great nation,” said Lt.
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By BECKY BOHRER and REBECCA BOONE Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s new election system — with open primaries and ranked voting — has been a model for those in other states who are frustrated by political polarization and a sense that voters lack real choice at the ballot box. Used for the first
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