SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — A U.S. District Court judge ruled Thursday that a state law creating the Health Care Market Oversight Program does not violate the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The Hospital Association of Oregon, which brought the lawsuit, said Friday it’s considering an appeal to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Oregon Department of Early Learning and Care has launched a new data dashboard demonstrating positive trends around the strong growth of Preschool Promise Program. The data shows thousands of families across the state are successfully accessing free, high quality preschool. Preschool Promise is a preschool program serving children ages 3-4, in
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05) voted in favor of bipartisan bills over the past several days to support law enforcement in recognition of National Police Week. The proposals that passed the House, which include efforts to support the recruitment and retention of police officers, come as the Portland Police Bureau and many other
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Silver has long been used to thwart the spread of illness and in recent years silver nanoparticles have been incorporated into products ranging from sanitizers, odor-resistant clothes and washing machines to makeup, food packaging and sports equipment. Nanoparticles are tiny pieces of material ranging in size from one- to 100-billionths of
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon Health Authority is reminding people of the risks associated with raw (unpasteurized) milk consumption amid the current H5N1 “bird flu” outbreak in dairy cattle. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently tested 297 retail milk samples from 38 states for H5N1 virus. About 20% of these samples tested positive for
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — In a breezy coastal meadow this week, Oregon Zoo conservationists and their partners said goodbye to 381 of the zoo’s tiniest residents. They were releasing Oregon silverspot butterfly larvae at select sites in the coastal mountain range in an effort to save this beautiful and threatened Northwest species, which has been
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Thirteen fluffy California condor chicks are hopping in their nest boxes at the Oregon Zoo’s Jonsson Center for Wildlife Conservation this month — the biggest cohort yet in the zoo’s 21-year effort to save this critically endangered species from extinction. “It’s been an incredible hatching season,” said Travis Koons, who oversees
Continue ReadingEVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state trooper fatally shot a man with a hammer who had attacked state Department of Transportation workers along Interstate 5 north of Seattle, law enforcement officials said. Around 4 p.m. Thursday, state patrol troopers responded to a report of a road rage incident on the shoulder of I-5 northbound
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW/KTVZ) — Jesse Lee Calhoun has been indicted on murder charges for the deaths of three women in the Portland area, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday morning, KGW reported. A grand jury returned an indictment on Thursday, charging Calhoun, 39, with three counts of second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree abuse
Continue ReadingBy LEAH ASKARINAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Oregon has multiple hotly contested primaries on Tuesday, as well as some that will set the stage for high-profile races in November. Oregon’s 5th Congressional District is home to one of the top Democratic primaries in the country. It pits Jamie McLeod-Skinner against Janelle Bynum. McLeod-Skinner defeated
Continue Reading PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) —Schools reported the highest rate ever for students claiming nonmedical exemptions from the state’s school vaccination requirements, new Oregon Health Authority data show. Statewide, 8.8% of kindergartners had a nonmedical exemption for one or more required vaccines, up from 8.1% in 2023 and 6.9% in 2022. In 2023, Oregon had the second
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The target was likely a wolf, the latest poisoning in a disturbing trend that has killed 19 wolves in Oregon since 2015. Whatever the target, the collateral damage in northeast Oregon’s ongoing poisoning cases now includes golden eagles, dogs and other carnivores, authorities said Thursday.
Continue ReadingKENT, Wash. (AP) — A suburban Seattle police officer ignored his training and unnecessarily resorted to deadly force when he shot and killed a man outside a convenience store in 2019, prosecutors said as the officer’s murder trial opened Thursday. Auburn Police Officer Jeff Nelson shot Jesse Sarey twice while attempting to arrest him for
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., released the following statements Thursday after the Biden administration announced it is officially moving to reschedule cannabis as a Schedule III substance: Wyden said: “It’s official, the Biden administration has taken a historic step toward ending reefer madness and bringing common sense to federal cannabis policy.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man who met two 15-year-old girls on Snapchat, sexually abused them while traveling through three states and finally abandoned them at a park has been sentenced to more than a decade behind bars, prosecutors said Thursday. Albert Wayne Johnson was sentenced Wednesday to 12 1/2 years in federal prison
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By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A typo in the triple-murder indictment of an Idaho man accused of killing his wife and his girlfriend’s two children doesn’t mean that he should be acquitted of one of the deaths, a judge said Thursday. Prosecutors had been carefully detailing the case against Chad Daybell
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — Pro-Palestinian encampments have been cleared from more US college campuses as school officials have called in law enforcement in recent weeks to quell mounting demonstrations over the institutions’ ties to Israel amid its military action in Gaza. Here are the latest developments: Arts and sciences faculty at Columbia University have passed
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Cites major workforce cutbacks; says reducing hours, no Monday phone lines will give staff more time SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — As of Sunday, the Oregon Employment Department has completed 10 weeks of administering Unemployment Insurance Benefits in Frances Online. In that time, OED has distributed more than $140 million in benefits. Weekly claim volume has
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Office of Governor Tina Kotek and state agency leaders who manage wildfires and conflagrations provided a briefing Wednesday as the 2024 wildfire season approaches, including steps Oregonians should take to prepare.“Wildfires will forever impact our state and our nation. The threats will continue to grow as we grapple with hotter,
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon’s seasonally adjusted nonfarm payroll employment rose by 4,900 jobs in April, following a revised gain of 2,600 jobs in March, the Oregon Employment Department reported Wednesday. April’s gains were largest in health care and social assistance (+1,700 jobs); construction (+1,500); and manufacturing (+900). Monthly declines were largest in professional and business services (-1,100 jobs). Over the past two
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