OSU signs first contract with new faculty union
United Academics of Oregon State University and Oregon State University have signed and adopted an inaugural collective bargaining agreement for the…
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Car drives into Portland protest crowd; 3 hurt, driver arrested
Authorities say a man drove his car into a crowd of protesters early Wednesday morning in downtown Portland, injuring three people, and was arrested.…
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Oregon AG, others want consumer privacy protected in contact tracing apps
In a letter sent Tuesday to the chief executive officers of Google and Apple, Oregon Attorney General Rosenblum led a coalition of 39 attorneys…
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OSU researchers: Honeybees’ lives shortened by pesticide exposure
CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – The lives of honeybees are shortened – with evidence of physiological stress – when they are exposed to the suggested…
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Wyden co-sponsors bills to protect COVID-19 funding abuse whistleblowers
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced Tuesday he is co-sponsoring legislation that would ensure whistleblower protections for people who expose misuse of…
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OHSU to change virus study after complaints of bias
Oregon Health & Science University is working on a new approach to studying the spread of COVID-19 after health-care experts from the state’s…
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Federal COVID-19 waivers for commercial driver licenses extended to Sept. 30
As the COVID-19 emergency continues, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has extended waivers on commercial driver licensing requirements…
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Oregon reports record 278 COVID-19 cases; 119 from Union County outbreak
Oregon has recorded two more deaths from COVID-19 and a record 278 new cases, largely due to a major northeast Oregon outbreak associated with a…
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Gov. Brown calls special session next week on police reforms, COVID-19 response
Gov. Kate Brown on Tuesday called the Oregon Legislature into special session next week to address the state’s response to two major nationwide…
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Walden demands action, answers on continued jobless benefits delays
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., sent a letter Tuesday to Oregon Employment Department Interim Director David Gerstenfeld, urging…
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Oregon jobless rate falls in May, but state economists say crisis continues
Like the nation as a whole, Oregon’s unemployment rate declined from record levels in May, according to new numbers released Tuesday. But despite the…
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Portland police say they’ll remove fence from around downtown jail
A chain-link fence that has blocked the downtown Portland jail from nightly protesters will be taken…
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Seattle council bans police use of crowd control weapons
SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle City Council has voted unanimously to bar police from using tear gas, pepper spray and several other crowd control…
Continue Reading Oregon has 4 more COVID-19 deaths, 184 new cases; Union County outbreak tied to church
COVID-19 has claimed four more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 180, the Oregon Health Authority reported…
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State OKs 3 new community college-to-university transfer degrees
The Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission announced Monday the approval of three new statewide major-specific transfer degrees designed to…
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OSU’s COVID-19 tracing project expands to Newport, site of recent outbreak
NEWPORT, Ore. (KTVZ) – TRACE-COVID-19, the groundbreaking Oregon State University project to determine community prevalence of the novel…
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Oregon lawmakers call for more inmate releases due to COVID-19 risk
Leaders of the Oregon House and Senate judiciary committees released a multi-pronged “decompression” plan Monday to address the problem of…
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Precision Castparts laying off 700-plus in Portland area
Precision Castparts Corp., one of Oregon’s largest manufacturing firms, has notified the state it will lay off 717 workers at its two…
Continue Reading Oregon reports 2 more COVID-19 deaths, 101 new cases
COVID-19 has claimed two more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 176, along with 101 new cases, the Oregon Health Authority…
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Oregon AG warns: Watch out for impostor contact tracers
Contact tracing is important in curbing the spread of the COVID-19 virus. But Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum warned Saturday to watch out…
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