New OHA report details Oregon’s health care cost spending trends
The Oregon Health Authority on Tuesday published Oregon’s 2022 Annual Cost Growth Trends Report, which presents data on health care spending and…
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Wyden, colleagues urge IRS to prepare for, tackle AI-generated tax scams that seek personal info
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., along with Sens. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and James Lankford, R-Okla., sounded the alarm Tuesday on the…
Continue Reading Wyden, colleagues urge bakers to stop adding unneeded sesame to baked goods, protect those with allergies
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Reps. Doris Matsui, D-Calif., and Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., led a letter Tuesday urging bakers to stop unnecessarily…
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Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan, embroiled in consultant controversy, announces resignation
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…
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Recreational crabbing closed along southern Oregon coast due to elevated levels of marine biotoxin
The Oregon Department of Agriculture and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife have announced the closure of all recreational crabbing on the…
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Chavez-DeRemer urges EPA to reconsider rodenticide restrictions
Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05) led 29 of her colleagues Monday in urging U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan to…
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Oregon lawmakers advance bill on abortion, trans health care
By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers have advanced a sweeping bill intended to protect abortion…
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Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee won’t seek 4th term
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…
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Marijuana job lands Oregon secretary of state in trouble
By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan is in hot water, with Republican lawmakers calling for…
Continue ReadingMan pleads guilty to 4 substation attacks on Christmas
By KPTV Staff Click here for updates on this story TACOMA, Washington (KPTV) — A 32-year-old Puyallup, Wash. man pleaded guilty on Friday to…
Continue ReadingCamas teens ride tank to prom flanked by Portland’s ‘Unipiper’
By JEFFERY LINDBLOM Click here for updates on this story CAMAS, Washington (KPTV) — More than two months ago, Sherman…
Continue ReadingShooting kills 2 men, injures 3rd victim in Seattle park
SEATTLE (AP) — Two men were killed and a third person was wounded during a shooting in a Seattle park Saturday night, police said. Police responded…
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Greener pastures? 2,500 hopeful sheep cross Idaho highway
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…
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$20K reward to find boater who drove through sea lions on Columbia River
By KPTV Staff Click here for updates on this story HAYDEN ISLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
Continue ReadingArmy identifies 3 soldiers killed in Alaska helicopter crash
By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. Army identified on Saturday the three soldiers who were killed when two helicopters…
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OSP I-5 traffic stop in Salem turns up 11.5 lbs. of powdered fentanyl, 1,000 counterfeit pills; driver, passenger arrested
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Bothell, Washington man made his first federal court appearance on drug charges in Portland on Friday, one day after an…
Continue ReadingOregon bill would decriminalize homeless encampments and propose penalties if unhoused people are harassed or ordered to leave
By Steve Almasy and Laura Studley, CNN Democrats in the Oregon House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would decriminalize homeless…
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Gov. Kotek announces Homeless State of Emergency funding agreements signed
Gov. Tina Kotek and Oregon Housing and Community Services announced Friday that funding contracts for the Homelessness State of Emergency have been…
Continue ReadingWashington creates missing Indigenous people cold case unit
SEATTLE (AP) — A new unit aimed at solving cold cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people will be established in Washington state, a result…
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Secretary of state audit says OLCC should better align marijuana, alcohol rules, prepare for federal legalization
The Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission and state leadership can better align the regulation of cannabis businesses to that of alcohol businesses,…
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