By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Lucy Pitka McCormick’s relatives cooked salmon, moose, beaver and muskrat over an earthen firepit on the banks of the Chena River, just outside Fairbanks, as they honored her life. They whipped whitefish, blueberries and lard into a traditional Alaska Native dessert, and dolloped servings onto a
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BROOKINGS, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that a southern Oregon city can’t limit a local church’s homeless meal services. U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Clarke found that an ordinance passed by the small city of Brookings, on the southern Oregon coast, violated the religious freedom rights of St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, KGW reported.
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The commercial Dungeness crab season in California will be curtailed to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in trap and buoy lines, officials announced Thursday. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife said commercial crabbing will end April 8 for waters between the Mendocino-Sonoma county line and the border with Mexico.
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Oregon Division of Financial Regulation has reached a settlement agreement in principle with a cryptocurrency asset platform for violating state securities regulations. The group of affiliated companies – Plutus Financial Holdings Inc., Plutus Financial Inc., Plutus Lending LLC and Abra Boost LLC – offered and sold interest-bearing cryptocurrency depository products
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As spring arrives, it’s time to remember that studded tires must be removed by Sunday, March 31. ODOT said Tuesday that long-term weather forecasts this year do not support an extension of the studded tire season.
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Lou Whittaker, a legendary American mountaineer who helped lead ascents of Mount Everest, K2 and Denali, and who taught generations of climbers during his more than 250 trips up Mount Rainier, the tallest peak in Washington state, has died at age 95. RMI Expeditions, the guide company
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By engaging regularly with their family dog and teaching it a series of tricks and commands, children with developmental disabilities experienced a significant increase in their daily physical activity, a new study from Oregon State University researchers found.
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Governor Tina Kotek signed Senate Bill 1596, Oregon’s Right to Repair reforms, into law on Wednesday, something long sought by consumer advocates here and in other states around the country. “This is a huge win for Oregon consumers and the Right to Repair movement as a whole,” said Senator Janeen Sollman (D –
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PORT ORFORD, Ore. (KGW/KTVZ) — The US Geological Survey reported a series of seven earthquakes Tuesday off the southern Oregon coast, all about 100 to 150 miles southwest of Port Orford, ranging from 3.0 to 5.7 in magnitude, KGW reported Wednesday. All of the quakes recorded a depth of about 6.2 miles and no injuries were reported. A total of
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — On Tuesday, as the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments over the legality of current dispensing of the abortion medication mifepristone, the Oregon Health Authority launched an ‘Abortion Access in Oregon’ website that was criticized by Oregon Right to Life, while Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum attended a rally on the high court’s
Continue ReadingJOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — An Army helicopter crashed at a military base in Washington state during a routine training exercise Monday night, sending the two pilots to a hospital. A Joint Base Lewis-McChord spokesperson told The News Tribune Tuesday that what the person called an “aviation mishap” on Monday night involved a U.S.
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ASHLAND, Oregon (AP) — The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, a remote expanse of wilderness along the California-Oregon border, will not lose any of its acreage after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up two challenges to its expansion. Logging interests and several counties in Oregon had asked the high court to strike down
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By Andi Babineau, CNN (CNN) — DNA found in a piece of discarded chewing gum led to the arrest and conviction of a suspect in a 1980 cold case murder in Oregon, prosecutors say. Robert Plympton, 60, was found guilty last week on one count of first-degree murder and four counts of second-degree murder in
Continue ReadingOLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Legislation in Washington state known as the strippers’ bill of rights, which advocates say includes the most comprehensive statewide protections in the nation, was signed into law on Monday. Gov. Jay Inslee signed the measure, which creates safer working conditions for people in the adult entertainment industry and makes it possible
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Two men charged in a brazen prison escape and ambush at an Idaho hospital that left three correctional officers with gunshot injuries were arraigned in Boise on Monday. Skylar Meade, the escaped inmate, and Nicholas Umphenour, a former inmate who used to live in the same
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Arachnophobia can make humans flee at the sight of a brown recluse, black widow or even a daddy long legs, but animal predators of spiders know no such fear. That’s why, paleobiologist George Poinar Jr. explains, some spider species have developed the defense of deception. They masquerade as a much less
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CHICAGO (KTVZ) — Average gasoline prices in Oregon have risen 11.7 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $4.14/g Monday, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 1,307 stations in Oregon. Prices in Oregon are 42.9 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand 26.7 cents per gallon higher than a year ago. According
Continue ReadingCNN By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun said Monday he intends to leave the beleaguered company by the end of the year in a major shakeup of the company’s leadership. Boeing’s chairman and the head of the commercial airplane unit are also leaving. Boeing’s chairman, Larry Kellner, will not
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Senator Ron Wyden said Friday he has joined Senate colleagues in introducing legislation that would create a permanent grant program for state and tribal governments to use local food producers for hunger relief programs. Wyden said the EAT Local Foods Act would increase access to locally-sourced, fresh, healthy, and nutritious food in underserved communities
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Three years after the release of “Dune,” a film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s epic 1965 sci-fi novel, “Dune: Part Two” is reigniting the public’s fascination with sandy environs and humanity’s efforts to reshape them. But long before the second movie came out earlier this month and ascended to the height of cinematic
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