With governments having to make hard choices about opening or closing schools, the science of kids and COVID-19 is especially necessary right now. We talk with Dr. Dawn Nolt, pediatrician and the director of infectious disease control and prevention at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.
Funding uncertainties, data disruption, field work cancelled: Scientists' work to understand and help solve some of the most important environmental and social problems we face – like climate change, pollution and homelessness – has taken a hit.
Sunday’s nine reported deaths bring Oregon’s total deaths from the pandemic to a new, grim milestone.
Black people in Portland were dramatically more likely to be stopped by police in 2019 than their non-Black counterparts, according to data recently released by the Portland Police Bureau.
Western maps, imbued with the history and power structures of colonialism, often erase Indigenous people and culture from their traditional lands. Now, Indigenous cartographers are countering that erasure by decolonizing maps throughout the world.
Researchers at Portland State University have dated three large historic earthquakes along the Gales Creek fault near Forest Grove.
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More than 91,000 people were hospitalized with the coronavirus on Saturday — over 6,000 of them on ventilators. With the holiday season fast approaching, health experts fear the worst is yet to come.
The move comes just days before a U.S. rule was set to go into effect allowing for bulk importation of drugs from Canada. Trump promised it would lower costs and be a "game changer" for seniors.
The U.S. Constitution says that for reallocating House seats, the census must count the "whole number of persons" in each state. But Trump wants to subtract undocumented immigrants.
Last spring, nurses and doctors traveled to New York and other COVID hot spots to help overwhelmed hospitals. But with the virus spreading everywhere, hospitals now have nowhere to turn for help.
Critics say President Trump constrained the Civil Rights Division from being as effective as it should. Business could look very different under the new incoming administration.
The Portland-based artist opens up about the dissolution of her 20 year partnership with producer Tucker Martine and their final collaboration together.
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Some of the first workers to lose jobs in the pandemic are getting laid off again in the “freeze.”
Recorded over the course of three days in 1967, during a period when the saxophonist was disillusioned with the record business, Rollins in Holland presents a jazz master in an ideal setting.
