environment
Many of Donald Trump’s actions on endangered species, energy, hazardous chemicals and more are on hold as President Joe Biden takes office. A number of them directly affect the Pacific Northwest, and some unraveled compromises that took years, even decades, to reach.
The largest active COVID-19 outbreaks in Oregon are in its prisons, according to data from the Oregon Health Authority.
The decision by one of the larger school districts in central Oregon was based on the region's stubbornly high COVID-19 case numbers.
Efforts to bring repercussions against a Clackamas County commissioner who posted bigoted remarks online continued in an unusual forum: a county budget committee meeting.
When news hit that the county fairgrounds would become a mass vaccine site, it was news to local health officials, too.
COVID-19 has taken a bite out of a sector that relies on restaurant sales to fill plates with fries and tater tots. Now a massive fire has added insult to injury for a major player in the Northwest potato world.
Hammerin' Hank
Sure, he's remembered for dethroning the Babe to become baseball's home run king on the way to 755, yet, when talking about the true measure of the man, there was far more to “Hammerin’ Hank” than his brilliance between the lines.
Russian authorities warned of mass arrests as demonstrators marched in open defiance of the Kremlin and called on President Vladimir Putin to free the jailed opposition leader.
Anti-abortion leaders who were elated a year ago when Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to appear in person at the annual March for Life are feeling less buoyant now.
Right-wing extremism has previously mostly played out in isolated pockets of America or in smaller cities.
The U.S. Census Bureau is suspending efforts to create neighborhood-level statistics on the citizenship and age of residents, using 2020 census data.
In this episode, OPB politics reporters Lauren Dake and Dirk VanderHart break down the varietal crises that lawmakers must address in the legislative session that began this week.
