Two days after a scathing lawsuit accused Oregon Gov. Kate Brown of running a dangerous and inept foster care system, Brown issued an executive order implementing changes she said would “bring in additional resources and expertise.”
Read moreFoster kids filed a class action against Oregon Gov. Kate Brown on Tuesday over the state’s dismal foster care system, which the kids say removes them from their homes at twice the national average and increasingly places them in out-of-state facilities.
Read moreCalifornia condors will soon glide through the skies in Oregon, Nevada and Northern California, if a government plan to expand the birds’ range into their original territory becomes reality.
Read moreEnvironmental groups urged a judge to order immediate changes to the government’s operation of a series of dams in the upper Willamette River basin, saying steelhead and Chinook salmon are too imperiled to risk waiting for litigation over dam operations to play out.
Read moreThe Cascade Forest Conservancy claims in a federal complaint that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management illegally approved exploratory drilling on 900 acres in Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
Read moreAn unvaccinated 6-year-old Oregon boy was hospitalized for two months for tetanus and almost died of the bacterial illness after getting a deep laceration on his forehead while playing on a farm, according to a case study published Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Read moreU.S. Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon said Tuesday he will not launch a campaign for president and would instead focus on his own re-election and on helping elect other Democrats in the Senate.
Read moreLegislation passed by Oregon lawmakers Tuesday will restrict increases in rent and prevent landlords from evicting tenants without cause after one year, with a few exceptions.
Read moreA train carrying 183 passengers was on the move again Tuesday after being stranded for more than a day in an unusual Oregon snowstorm.
Read moreFaced with a housing shortage and skyrocketing rents, Oregon is poised to become the first state to impose mandatory rent controls, with a measure establishing tenant protections moving swiftly through the Legislature.
Read moreThe federal government killed thousands of double-crested cormorants in Oregon between 2015 and 2017, and may have caused the collapse of the birds’ largest breeding colony in a bungled effort to help young salmon make it to the ocean alive. Meanwhile, state biologists say the birds just moved upriver – and eat three times more salmon.
Read moreA federal judge has temporarily blocked the federal government’s plans to log the Rogue River-Siskiyou and Klamath National Forests as a response to a destructive 2017 wildfire, finding environmentalists raised serious doubts the feds considered short-term harm to wildlife and the northern spotted owl.
Read moreA federal class action accuses the Oregon Department of Education of rolling out an illegally shortened school day on hundreds of children.
Read moreAn ailing U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service worker in Oregon said she can’t learn why her federally paid insurance lapsed months ago, and she can’t get it reinstated because of the partial government shutdown, leaving her scrambling to find a way to pay for nutrients that keep her alive.
Read moreOregon’s effort to prevent California sea lions from feasting on the dwindling winter steelhead at Willamette Falls will not proceed as planned because of the federal government shutdown.
Read moreA commercial crabbing boat capsized in rough waters off the Oregon coast, killing the three men aboard and sending a shock wave through a seafaring community already struggling from a monthlong delay to the annual crabbing season.
Read moreDouglas Brenner sued the NCAA, the University of Oregon and its head football coach Willie Taggart for $12 million in Multnomah County Court, claiming Taggart’s punishing workout regime left him hospitalized with exertional rhabdomyolsis and permanent kidney damage that will shorten his life by 10 years.
Read moreOregon has no duty to protect natural resources as part of a public trust, according to a state appeals court Wednesday, tossing claims that the state hasn’t done enough to stop climate change.
Read moreThe U.S. government defended its management of the six national wildlife refuges that straddle the Oregon/California border Tuesday, as a federal judge heard arguments over four lawsuits from environmentalists challenging ranchers and farmers who grow crops on refuge land.
Read moreEnvironmental groups in Oregon announced Monday they have withdrawn from talks on how to manage the state’s rebounding wolf population because of what they called a “broken” process, and concerns that state wildlife officials want to make it easier to kill wolves that eat livestock without trying other alternatives.
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