
Parts of Oregon covered in new ice as residents wait for thaw
Temperatures have warmed slightly since last weekend, but more ice continued to coat the streets and trees on Thursday in Portland.

Temperatures have warmed slightly since last weekend, but more ice continued to coat the streets and trees on Thursday in Portland.

The Grants Pass-based coffee company Dutch Bros announced this week that it’s moving 40% of its total support staff positions to Phoenix over the next year.

Most of Springfield remained without power Thursday, and parts of the city were under a boil order due to damage at the Springfield Utility Board water facilities.

Two freight-to-rail centers in the Willamette Valley and Eastern Oregon have failed to fulfill a single promise of boosting agricultural exports and reducing emissions.
Guadalupe Guerrero’s last day at PPS is Feb. 16. He will start at the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools on April 2.
Removal of the Eastern Oregon mayor, who is facing a criminal complaint from local residents, will be made official Jan. 23.

The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs argue that Deschutes County’s latest decision on the resort project showed a disregard for Indigenous knowledge, but the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals says “it is not our role to reweigh the evidence.”
The guidelines propose permit processes for installing, replacing climbing hardware in wilderness areas, like the Mt. Hood National Forest.
The next big phase of the Klamath River Dam removal started this week. It's the largest dam removal in U.S. history and is expected to last through 2024.
The mobile medication pilot program will also connect people to longer-term recovery and treatment services. It’s a novel approach public safety leaders hope will help save lives amid a flood of illicit fentanyl, the latest phase of an opiate epidemic that’s surged across the country.

The House and the Senate have approved a short-term measure to keep the full federal government funded until early March.
At least 47 people in 22 states have been sickened and 10 people have been hospitalized after eating Busseto brand and Fratelli Beretta brand meats, officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is accused by a former Trump campaign official of an improper relationship with a prosecutor on the election interference case, though no evidence has been provided.
From neonatal and primary care to emergency medicine, kids got lower-quality care than their white peers, researchers find. Disparities include longer waits and less pain medication after surgery.
The Justice Department's critical incident review comes more than a year and a half after the gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

Oregon Department of Transportation has been working to rebuild the old Columbia River Highway for 37 years.
Popular geologist Nick Zentner of “Nick on the Rocks” takes an entertaining road trip to explore the Ginkgo lava flow that erupted in Central Washington and flowed all the way to the Oregon Coast 16 million years ago.
With a new release on Friday and a show at Holocene on Sunday, a band born out of the pandemic is drawing fresh attention.