Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan, who quickly became embroiled in controversy in recent days over a side job she took earlier this year as a consultant to a marijuana business, announced her resignation Tuesday morning.
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The Oregon Department of Agriculture and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife have announced the closure of all recreational crabbing on the southern Oregon coast from Takenitch Creek (8 miles north of Winchester Bay) to Cape Blanco due to elevated levels of the marine biotoxin domoic acid.
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Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05) led 29 of her colleagues Monday in urging U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan to listen to experts and follow the science before restricting 11 widely used rodenticides.
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By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers have advanced a sweeping bill intended to protect abortion and gender-affirming health care for transgender people by boosting legal safeguards and expanding access and insurance coverage. Democratic representatives on Monday night passed the bill along party lines in a House floor vote
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By GENE JOHNSON and ED KOMENDA Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inlsee, a Democrat who has sought to make the state a leader on progressive policies from climate change to gun violence prevention, said Monday he will not seek a fourth term in office. The 72-year-old’s announcement clears the way for younger
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By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan is in hot water, with Republican lawmakers calling for her resignation and the Democratic governor seeking investigations because Fagan took a consulting job with a marijuana firm. Fagan released a statement late Friday saying she welcomed the governor’s inquiry. “I
Continue ReadingBy KPTV Staff Click here for updates on this story TACOMA, Washington (KPTV) — A 32-year-old Puyallup, Wash. man pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiring to destroy electrical energy equipment and power lines in December 2022, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Washington. In the Tacoma, Wash. U.S. District Court, Matthew Greenwood
Continue ReadingBy JEFFERY LINDBLOM Click here for updates on this story CAMAS, Washington (KPTV) — More than two months ago, Sherman Bynum and his friends decided they wanted to go to their Camas, Wash. prom in a World War II tank. Saturday night, they made it happen. “I think the quote that we’ve been repeating a
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Two men were killed and a third person was wounded during a shooting in a Seattle park Saturday night, police said. Police responded to a report of a shooting at Cal Anderson Park around 10:30 p.m., the Seattle Police Department said in a statement. Officers found three men with gunshot wounds and
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Why did 2,500 sheep cross the road? Because the grass was greener on the other side. In Idaho, it’s not unusual to see ranchers moving a bleating herd of sheep up to higher elevation at this time of year. But the sight of 2,500 wooly beasts trotting across a highway earlier
Continue ReadingBy KPTV Staff Click here for updates on this story HAYDEN ISLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Law Enforcement is hoping the public can help them identify a boater who drove through a herd of sea lions earlier this month. A video recording shows a boat heading east away
Continue ReadingBy MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. Army identified on Saturday the three soldiers who were killed when two helicopters collided in Alaska while returning from a training mission. The helicopters were headed to Fort Wainwright from a mission in the Donnelly Training Area when they crashed at 1:39 p.m. Thursday, about
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Bothell, Washington man made his first federal court appearance on drug charges in Portland on Friday, one day after an Oregon State Police trooper made a traffic stop on Interstate 5 and found large amounts of powdered fentanyl, counterfeit oxycodone pills and methamphetamine in his car.
Continue ReadingBy Steve Almasy and Laura Studley, CNN Democrats in the Oregon House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would decriminalize homeless encampments in public places and allow homeless people to sue for $1,000 if harassed or told to leave. The bill, HB 3501, would allow unhoused people to use public spaces “without discrimination and
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Gov. Tina Kotek and Oregon Housing and Community Services announced Friday that funding contracts for the Homelessness State of Emergency have been signed and funding will start being distributed to the regional multi-agency coordination groups.
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — A new unit aimed at solving cold cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people will be established in Washington state, a result of the latest law to address a decades-long crisis. House Bill 1177 was recommended by a state task force, passed unanimously in the Legislature and was signed last week by
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The Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission and state leadership can better align the regulation of cannabis businesses to that of alcohol businesses, prepare the state for federal legalization of cannabis, and implement strategies to provide equitable access to the cannabis industry, according to an audit released Friday by the Oregon Secretary of State Audits Division.
Continue ReadingBy Cheri Mossburg and Jean Casarez, CNN One of the surviving roommates in a stabbing attack that left four University of Idaho students dead has agreed to speak to defense attorneys for suspect Bryan Kohberger after initially resisting efforts by his legal team to compel her testimony. In a court filing made Wednesday, obtained by
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar, CNN A Seattle medical center is reporting 31 confirmed cases of a bacterial infection since October, according a news release from the Virginia Mason Medical Center. The most recent confirmed case was identified on April 3. “Beginning in October 2022, Virginia Mason Medical Center detected an increase in cases of Klebsiella pneumoniae
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) — For adolescents who may get stuck in negative thought spirals, refocusing on mental imagery is a more effective distraction than verbal thoughts, a recent study from Oregon State University found. A short-term distraction can break up the thought spiral, which makes room for that person to then seek help from a
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