By EMILY TATE SULLIVAN of EdSurge AMERICAN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — After reading a book about the five senses to a semicircle of rapt 4-year-olds, Abi Hawker tells the children in her afternoon preschool class that she has a surprise for them. She drags a small popcorn maker onto the carpet and asks them to
Continue ReadingIt’s been just a few months since it became legal for Oregonians to pump their own gas, but that’s apparently long enough for Oregon’s largest union to conclude that it’s time to undo the change. OPB reported last week that the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 branch will field a ballot measure asking Oregon voters to roll back the self-serve law.
Continue ReadingBy DREW MARINE Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Portland Public Schools District teachers and families rallied at the Portland Association of Teachers office on Saturday morning to pressure the district to meet their demands before Nov 1. “We’re going to keep fighting and it’s their choice to do what’s
Continue ReadingBy Pete Muntean and Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Richard Wesmoreland says in the beginning, being an airline pilot was great. But the repeated, days-long stretches away from home — commuting back and forth between his home near Houston and regional carrier SkyWest’s crew based in Detroit — began to take a toll on his
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley and Idaho Senator Mike Crapo announced Friday that their bipartisan amendment to significantly boost investments for multi-benefit projects under the Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations program, including watershed improvements and irrigation modernization projects, has passed the full Senate. Clearing this key hurdle means the amendment will be included in the FY24 Senate Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and
Continue ReadingBy MANUEL VALDES Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Peter Bates was dropping his car at the mechanic this month when a notification pinged on his phone: killer whales were approaching his Seattle neighborhood. He hopped on a bus toward the water, then an electric bike. He was pedaling along a shoreline trail when orcas’ black
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MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho judge on Thursday declined to dismiss a grand jury indictment against a man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students. Bryan Kohberger is charged with four counts of murder and one count of burglary in connection with the deaths at a rental house near the school’s campus
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — An Idaho woman is suing her one-time fertility doctor, saying he secretly used his own sperm to inseminate her 34 years ago — the latest in a string of such cases brought as at-home DNA sampling enables people to learn more about their ancestry. Sharon Hayes, 67,
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – More than halfway into the unwinding of federal pandemic benefits, renewal data shows that more than 8 out of 10 Oregonians are keeping their Oregon Health Plan or other Medicaid benefits. So far, around 1 in 6 people’s benefits are ending or reducing. Updated renewal categories now allow Oregon to compare
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and John Thune (R-S.D.), on Thursday reintroduced the Tribal Child Support Enforcement Act, which would improve child support enforcement for tribal child support agencies by allowing the more than 60 tribes that operate their own child-support programs to access the Federal Tax Refund Offset Program, which lets them collect past-due
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Governor Tina Kotek on Thursday ordered flags at Oregon public institutions to be flown at half-staff immediately, pursuant to a Presidential Proclamation, in response to the senseless acts of violence perpetrated in Lewiston, Maine. Kotek said the flag should be flown at half-staff until sunset on Monday, October 30. “This act of violence
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Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., announced Thursday that Oregon has been awarded $40.2 million in federal funding to help low-income households and Tribes pay for energy bills, prevent utility shut-offs and more.
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The Oregon Public Utility Commission recently approved an increase in rates for Cascade Natural Gas customers that goes into effect on Wednesday, Nov. 1, averaging just over 3% or $2.56 a month for residential customers.
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) — Backed by a new cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, researchers at Oregon State University will soon begin testing approximately 1,600 wild animal specimens for the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19. Researchers in OSU’s Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine want to learn
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Senator Michael F. Bennet, D-Colo., and Representative Don Beyer, D-Va., introduced legislation Thursday to update and expand unemployment insurance so that the program better meets the needs of the modern workforce and is ready to respond should America face a future recession. “The past few
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05) joined Rep. Kim Schrier (WA-08) and Sens. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and James Risch (R-Idaho) to introduce bipartisan, bicameral legislation to improve transparency in the Legacy Road and Trail Remediation (LRTR) Program. This legislation requires the U.S. Forest Service to publish an annual list of projects eligible for
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) led Senate Finance Committee Democrats this week in sending a letter pressing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to take additional steps to protect seniors from deceptive practices used by marketing middlemen in Medicare Advantage. “The marketing onslaught can create confusion among beneficiaries resulting in
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By CLAIRE RUSH and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — What authorities describe as an off-duty pilot’s attempt to shut down the engines of a Horizon Air flight with more than 80 people on board has renewed attention on the mental fitness of those allowed in the cockpit. Joseph Emerson, 44, had been
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By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A woman sentenced to life in an Idaho prison in the the murders of her two youngest children and another woman could soon be taken to Arizona to face similar charges. Lori Vallow Daybell was convicted in Idaho earlier this year of killing her two kids
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An international coalition of climate scientists says in a paper published Tuesday by two lead authors from Oregon State University that the Earth’s vital signs have worsened beyond anything humans have yet seen, to the point that life on the planet is imperiled.
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