Bills would let transgender people seal name-change requests
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, SOPHIE AUSTIN and MANUEL VALDES Associated Press/Report for America SEATTLE (AP) — You can change your name, but in many…
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Seattle Opera puts story of Afghan women center stage
By MARIAM FAM Associated Press As the Taliban once again assert control of Afghanistan and push women further out of public view, a female Afghan…
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Kotek launches emergency response infrastructure to implement homeless state of emergency
In a significant step following her executive order declaring a homelessness state of emergency (EO 23-02), Governor Tina Kotek kicked off the first…
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Idaho ordered to execute inmate but state lacks lethal drugs
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s attorney general has obtained a court order that requires a terminally ill death…
Continue ReadingBody of 1 Washington state avalanche victim recovered
LEAVENWORTH, Wash. (AP) — The body of one of three climbers killed in an avalanche on Washington state’s Colchuck Peak last weekend was recovered…
Continue ReadingFather arrested, charged in 4-month-old son’s death
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A Tacoma man arrested in the death of his 4-month-old son earlier this week was charged Friday with second-degree murder.…
Continue ReadingIdaho house where 4 university students were killed will be torn down
By Mallika Kallingal and Veronica Miracle, CNN The Idaho house where four college students were killed in November will be demolished as a…
Continue ReadingUS judge won’t block huge lithium mine on Nevada-Oregon line
By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal judge has sided again with the Biden administration and a Canadian-based mining…
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Oregon AG Rosenblum, 11 others sue FDA over ‘unnecessary restrictions’ on medication abortion drug mifepristone
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum co-led a lawsuit with Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, and joined by 10Â other…
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Forest Service discusses Northwest’s wildfire crisis during online community forum
PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The USDA Forest Service held an online community forum recently to address the wildfire crisis facing the Pacific…
Continue Reading15-year-old accidentally shot, killed in eastern Washington
REARDON, Wash. (AP) — A 15-year-old boy was accidentally shot and killed by another teen at a home Wednesday west of Spokane, police said. Reardan…
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Portland man says cryptocurrency scam destroyed his life
By Kandra Kent Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Oregonians were tricked out of $13.6 million in cryptocurrency…
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Study: Sea stars can consume kelp-eating urchins fast enough to protect kelp forests
A research team including a scientist from Oregon State University has provided the first experimental evidence that a species of endangered sea star…
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Winter storms sow more chaos, shut down much of Portland
By CLAIRE RUSH, DREW CALLISTER and JIM SALTER Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Winter storms sowed more chaos across the U.S. on Thursday,…
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Flu vaccination rates drop 26% among Oregon’s eligible health care workers
The influenza vaccination rate among Oregon health care workers dropped 26% between the 2019-2020 and 2021-2022 influenza seasons, new data show,…
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Wyden, Senate colleagues urge transparency for food delivery service ‘junk fees’
Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said Wednesday they are urging Grubhub, Uber Eats and DoorDash to…
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As sea ice declines in the Arctic, bowhead whales are adjusting their migration patterns, OSU researchers say
NEWPORT, Ore. (KTVZ) – As sea ice declines in the Arctic, bowhead whales are staying north of the Bering Strait more frequently, a shift that could…
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Chavez-DeRemer backs bills to charge deadly fentanyl traffickers with felony murder, protect first responders
WASHINGTON, (KTVZ) — Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05) announced Wednesday her support for the Felony Murder for Deadly Fentanyl Distribution Act and…
Continue ReadingFederal agency proposes California spotted owl protection
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal wildlife officials on Wednesday announced a proposal to classify one of two…
Continue ReadingSheriff IDs 3 climbers killed in Washington state avalanche
By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A sheriff’s office in Washington state on Wednesday released the identities of three climbers…
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