Small employers will pay about 8.1% more for health insurance in Oregon, while individuals will pay about 6.2% more in 2024.
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Feds giving Oregon another $26 million for internet access
A new round of federal infrastructure money will help fund a Pioneer Connect project to bring fiber optic cable to small Coast Range communities.
State hospital escapee found stuck in mud of Portland pond
Christopher Pray, 39, gave a fake name when admitted to a Portland hospital Friday morning. But an employee noticed he resembled the patient who escaped Wednesday night from the Oregon State Hospital in Salem.
Former Nyssa police chief charged with evidence theft in Tillamook
Prosecutors on Wednesday, Aug. 30, charged Raymond K. Rau, the former Nyssa police chief, with theft related to evidence missing from a Tillamook Police Department evidence locker. Rau is chief in Tillamook.
Vale district pulls high school yearbook over words, spurring censorship concerns
AROUND OREGON: Vale School District officials could be violating student journalists’ First Amendment rights by pulling the high school’s yearbook after some found words and phrases on the cover offensive, according to a national organization that protects the free speech rights of student journalists.
Oregon has process to prevent gun violence but it’s not widely used, report finds
Oregon’s “red flag” law was passed in 2017 to prevent homicides and suicides, but there’s little public awareness of it.
Repeated searches in remote Oregon fail to turn up missing Boise woman
VANISHED: A Boise woman’s vehicle was abandoned near the remote Oregon border town of Jordan Valley in late June, carrying 11 of her rabbits. Her travels and disappearance leave her family struggling with mysteries.
Plan to protect threatened and endangered species in Western state forests could face new delay
The chair of the state forestry board is proposing experts revise the Western Oregon State Forest Habitat Conservation Plan.
Coffee Creek sergeant arrested for sexual misconduct with an inmate
The sergeant was arrested for sexual misconduct less than a week after the release of a scathing state report about conditions at Oregon’s only women’s prison
Kotek names Erin McMahon as new head of Oregon Department of Emergency Management
Oregon’s prior emergency management director, Andrew Phelps, was one of several agency heads who left after Kotek’s election