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By GARY WARNER/Oregon Capital Bureau Ready or not, Oregon, the 2022 election season is here. Labor Day weekend of odd-numbered years is the traditional kick-off of serious campaign activity aimed at the ballot voters will mark in 14 months. If anything, 2021 has a running start. The busy summer needs a primer to catch up on what’s happened and what’s

By GARY A. WARNER/Oregon Capital Bureau Schools should cancel or curtail some extracurricular activities to help Oregon maintain what appears to be the beginning of a decline from record high numbers of COVID-19 infections, Gov. Kate Brown said Tuesday. Multiple forecasts over the past week showed a peak in the two-month surge of infections driven by the highly contagious delta

The Eugene Register-Guard The University of Oregon and Oregon State University announced Wednesday that they are requiring weekly COVID-19 testing for unvaccinated students and employees. The universities, along with all of Oregon’s other public universities, are requiring COVID-19 vaccines for students and employees who will be learning and working on campus. People are legally allowed to request exemptions, but the weekly

By the Salem Statesman-Journal A busy section of the highway hundreds of thousands of people travel each year to get to the Oregon Coast could soon look much different. A design has been selected to improve the Valley Junction Interchange at Highway 18 and 22 near Grand Ronde on the busy section west of Spirit Mountain Casino, according to the

Oregon reports 2,379 new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases, 24 new deaths PORTLAND — There are 24 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 3,272, the Oregon Health Authority reported at 12:01 a.m. Friday. Oregon Health Authority reported 2,379 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m. Friday, bringing the state total

By GARY WARNER/Oregon Capital Bureau Legislative leaders on Friday released competing plans for new political districts to be used beginning with the 2022 election. Hopes for a quick consensus to meet a looming Sept. 27 deadline to get a proposal to the Oregon Supreme Court were immediately hit by a partisan crossfire over the first drafts of maps that would