By ERIN ROSS/Oregon Public Broadcasting Oregon officials, increasingly confident about COVID-19 vaccine supply, are speeding up their vaccination timeline. Officials say the increased supply will help them give a first […]
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Oregon Health Authority director tells legislators that more vaccine chaos will come as clinics open to senior citizens next week
By BEN BOTKIN/The Lund Report Oregon Health Authority Director Patrick Allen is cautioning that the state will see chaos as it makes COVID-19 vaccines available to senior citizens starting next […]
Debate over Timber Unity leaders and possible connections to extremist groups draws big crowd to Toledo City Council meeting
By TESS RISKI/Willamette Week TOLDEO — Each time Toledo City Councilor Bill Dalbey drives along U.S. Highway 20 — which winds through the tiny timber town he calls home and […]
Oregon coronavirus report for Thursday, Feb. 4: 730 new cases, 6 in Lincoln County; 15,173 vaccinations, 7 more deaths
Oregon reports 730 new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases, seven new deaths PORTLAND — There are seven new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 1,998, […]
Oregon lawmakers and Secretary of State may be heading to showdown over who will control redrawing legislative and congressional boundaries
By GARY A. WARNER/Oregon Capital Bureau The Legislature and Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan appear headed for a showdown over who will control redistricting of legislative and congressional maps […]
Oregon OSHA seeks to make COVID-19 workplace rules permanent
By ZANE SPARLING/Oregon Capital Bureau Face masks and social distancing are likely to remain a fixture of the shopping and working experience for some time, according to the state’s employee […]
Oregon coronavirus report for Wednesday, Feb. 3: 649 more COVID-19 cases, 8 in Lincoln County; 17,720 vaccinations, 10 more deaths
Oregon reports 649 new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases, 10 new deaths PORTLAND — There are 10 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 1,991, […]
Oregon coronavirus report for Tuesday, Feb. 2: 619 COVID-19 cases, 5 in Lincoln County; 23 deaths, 15,967 vaccinations
Oregon reports 619 new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases, 23 new deaths PORTLAND — There are 23 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 1,981, […]
Declining unemployment rate in Oregon means shift of some laid-off workers to different federal program
By PETER WONG/Oregon Capital Bureau Oregon’s declining three-month unemployment rate will mean the end of benefits to some people under one federal program. But the acting director of the Oregon […]
Oregon lawmakers meeting in Salem see a familiar ZIP code atop Oregon’s COVID-19 list
By GARY A. WARNER/Oregon Capital Bureau When the Oregon Health Authority issued its weekly list of which of the state’s 373 zip codes that had the highest number of new […]