Oregon Ice Storm Subsiding, but Many Still in the Dark
A major ice storm knocked out electricity for more than 730,000 homes in Oregon — some for nearly a week.
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NOAA Sides With Oregon in Pipeline Project Appeal
Jordan Cove can’t skirt the permits Oregon denied, the federal government affirmed Monday.
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After Armed Standoff, Sugar Pine Mine at Impasse in Court
The Nineteenth Century gold mine that sparked a 2015 militia standoff is now the subject of a federal lawsuit. On Wednesday, a judge heard arguments from miners and the government on cross motions to dismiss.
Read moreCow Caper
The owners of an organic produce farm were properly awarded enhanced damages in their suit against the owners of a neighboring farm, an appeals court in Oregon ruled. The plaintiffs’ newly planted crop of organic salad plants was damaged when the defendants’ cows escaped from their enclosure and trampled and defecated on the plants.
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Trump Restores Grazing Rights to Men Convicted — and Pardoned — of Arson
In its final moments Wednesday, the Trump administration granted two 10-year grazing permits to the father-son duo whose convictions and imprisonment for setting fires on public lands gave rise to the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon.
Read moreFeds Deal Setback to Oregon Gas Pipeline Project
Oregon will still get to weigh in on water pollution a proposed natural gas pipeline could cause — a significant
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Police: Thief Berated Mom for Leaving Kid in Car He Stole
A car thief who found a toddler in the backseat of a stolen vehicle drove back and chastised the mother for leaving the child unattended before taking off again, police in Oregon said.
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Oregon Lawmaker Fined for Letting Protesters Inside State Capitol
Far-right demonstrators swarmed into Oregon’s Capitol last month, as legislators gathered for a contentious special session. New video shows a Republican lawmaker opened a locked door to let them in.
Read moreCovid-19 Order
A federal court in Oregon refused to grant a temporary injunction to the Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association in its suit challenging a Nov. 13 order restricting certain businesses, including prohibiting on-premises consumption of food or drinks for two weeks. The court recognized the “significant hardship” that businesses have endured during the pandemic but “the balance of equities weighs heavily in favor” of the state.
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California, Oregon, Tribes Join Plan to Restore Klamath River
Bolstering a bid to revive salmon populations that once sustained Native American tribes for thousands of years, California and Oregon agreed Tuesday to help fund a series of long-awaited dam removals on the Klamath River.
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Western States Warn Against Travel as Covid Cases Surge
With the coronavirus spreading faster than it ever has in California, worried officials issued a desperate plea Friday for residents to stop traveling and hold “virtual” Thanksgiving celebrations.
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Oregon Voters Back Bid to Decriminalize Hard Drugs
People caught with small amounts of hard drugs in Oregon will now have access to addiction assessments and treatment. If they take that route, the $100 fine they face will be waived — a step advocates say reclassifies addiction as a public health issue, not a criminal offense.
Read moreRace Relief
In a federal lawsuit, an Oregon logging company complains the state’s strict race-based criteria for distributing money from the Oregon Cares Fund for Black Relief and Resiliency is “unprecedented and blatantly unconstitutional.”
Read moreCovid Emergency, Oregon
Three Republican Oregon lawmakers sued Governor Kate Brown, claiming her Covid emergency orders are unconstitutional.
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Oregon Supreme Court Affirms Dismissal of Climate Change Lawsuit
A divided Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed an appeals court’s decision to strike claims that the state evaded its responsibility to stop climate change, finding that a duty to protect natural resources doesn’t exist under the public trust doctrine.
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Feds Agree to List Coastal Populations of Pacific Marten as Threatened
The coastal marten, a West Coast relative to minks and weasels, will be listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service due to habitat loss.
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Historic Wildfires Explode in Oregon, Tear Through in California
Escaping dozens of major fires burning near the fringes of major West Coast cities like Portland, Oregon, and Los Angeles, hundreds of thousands of people remained under evacuation orders Friday due to a relentless late-summer wildfire siege.
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Apocalyptic Wildfires Rage Up and Down West Coast
Illuminating the unmatched disaster pounding the West Coast, millions woke up Wednesday to the increasingly familiar blend of orange skies and swirling ash as countless wildfires rage through California, Oregon and Washington state.
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Judge Blasts Feds Over Long-Delayed Salmon Protections at Oregon Dams
Dams in the Willamette Valley are killing the majority of the young salmon and steelhead that try to pass on their way out to sea, and the Army Corps of Engineers violated the Endangered Species Act by refusing to take steps to reduce those deaths, a federal judge ruled Monday.
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Attorneys Say ICE ‘Abducted’ Men, Faced Down Crowd Demanding Their Release
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Field Director David Drasin refused an immigration attorney’s demand to meet with men seized from the streets of Bend, Oregon, and held on a bus for hours as protesters tried to block the bus from moving, according to a new lawsuit.
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