Category OREGON NEWS
Crisis hotline opens for farmers, ranchers, loggers and fishermen in Oregon
The Agristress line is specialized to address the needs of farmers, ranchers, loggers and fishermen. They often work in social and geographic isolation and have the highest suicide rate of occupations in Oregon.
Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley calls for ceasefire in Gaza
Sen. Jeff Merkley is the first member of Oregon’s congressional delegation to explicitly call for a ceasefire.
State and resettlement groups help Ukrainians in Oregon
The Oregon Department of Human Services will distribute $2.25 million in federal grants to help people from Ukraine.
Oregon legislators journey to Denmark with costs picked up by special interests
SPECIAL REPORT: Legislators head to Denmark to learn about energy efficiency in the company of utility lobbyists and executives. Only one took notes and another plagiarized the agenda in reporting on the trip.
Oregon and Washington fruit packers vote to unionize fails
OREGON NEWS: Nearly 60% of the nearly 330 fruit packers of Mount Adams Fruit voted against joining a local of United Food and Commercial Workers.
Oregon’s first large-scale solar park and farm hinges on 50-year-old land use laws
A Willamette Valley farmer behind the state’s first “agrovoltaic” farm says critics cannot stop ‘an idea whose time has come.’
State program helps hundreds of households affected by 2020 Labor Day fires, but needs remain
State officials have spent or accounted for a $150 million wildfire recovery program from the Legislature though victims of the Labor Day blazes are far from whole.
Child care subsidy program faces potential $123 million shortfall and indefinite waiting list
Oregon expanded eligibility and benefits for subsidized child care, but didn’t match that with the needed funds, officials say.
Hundreds of fruit packers in Washington and Oregon take union vote this week
Employees of three Mount Adams Fruit packing facilities in the Columbia River Gorge say they want safer conditions, better treatment and pay.