By MONICA SAMAYOA/Oregon Public Broadcasting Oregon’s southern coast is one step closer to producing floating offshore wind. The U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced Tuesday two […]
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UPDATE: Dialysis company says it will keep Tillamook clinic open until patients find treatment
A Wednesday update on this story: After sparking alarm when it announced plans to abruptly close its dialysis clinic in Tillamook on Feb. 23, U.S. Renal Care now tells The Lund […]
Oregon Gov. Kotek pushes Senate panel to approve $500 million housing plan
Gov. Tina Kotek has set a goal of building 36,000 new homes a year – nearly double the average number of homes built in Oregon in recent years. By JULIA […]
Oregon lawmakers hear hours of passionate testimony Wednesday on proposals to recriminalize drug possession
By DIRK VANDERHART/Oregon Public Broadcasting SALEM — A fierce and growing debate over whether to end Oregon’s three-year drug decriminalization experiment took center stage Wednesday, as lawmakers wrestling with the […]
Latest Oregon economic forecast shows up to $1.7 billion available for housing, addiction and more
By JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Oregon lawmakers will have hundreds of millions of dollars to spend over the next year after another positive economic forecast released Wednesday morning. […]
Oregon legislators taking first deep plunge into proposals to address the state’s drug crisis
Oregon lawmakers are considering proposals to address the state’s drug addiction crisis, from expanding treatment to more housing. Oregon’s addiction crisis is fueled by fentanyl, which is short acting and […]
Sen. Dick Anderson expected to play key role in housing legislation during short session
House Speaker Dan Rayfield, D-Corvallis, is among the politicians to watch this session. By JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — The start of Oregon’s short legislative session this week brought […]
Democrats split on charging public or timber industry for more of Oregon’s wildfire protection
By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Democratic lawmakers are split over whether a greater share of the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to protect the state from wildfires […]
Wet winter pushing most of Oregon out of years-long drought, but snowpack melting rapidly
By ZACH URNESS/Salem Statesman Journal After a wet December and January, Oregon is the most drought-free it has been since October 2019, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Western Oregon […]
Owners of four small dairies sue state over new rules they say could ruin their businesses
Sarah King owns Godspeed Farms, a three-cow operation. She’s one of the farmers suing the Oregon Department of Agriculture. By NATHAN WILK/KLCC A group of four dairy farmers is […]