On May 12, 1999, Ward, then a Curry County sheriff’s patrol deputy, responded to a call about a man who had fatally shot himself in an RV in Brookings, the county’s largest city. An Oregon state ...
Oregon was the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday in 1887. Oddly, lawmakers selected the first Saturday in June. Four other states created the holiday later that year. Labor Day was ...
Since 2020, only 1% of the land damaged by wildfire in Oregon is owned by the state. The bulk of the land that burns every year is federal, managed by either the federal Bureau of Land Management or ...
At an Aug. 13 summary judgment hearing, SEIU and the Oregon Department of Justice, which represented DHS, argued the names of background-check applicants should be a public record. The trade ...
Bob Packwood was an awkward and epic contradiction, a champion of political compromise with a fatally compromised personal life. He died June 6 in a care facility of natural causes at age 93, ...
In an extraordinary development, the Oregon State Sheriffs’ Association voted 28–0 on Aug. 24 to expel Curry County Sheriff John Ward. Seven sheriffs missed the vote due to scheduling conflicts. Ward ...
On Aug. 17, Gov. Tina Kotek made a bold claim about housing production in Oregon in a news release titled “Oregon Reverses Statewide Decline in New Housing with Two Years of Growth.” “I’m fighting to ...
As the May 19 primary approaches, the Oregon Education Association is flexing. With more than 40,000 members who live and work in nearly every community in Oregon, the teachers union is a powerful ...
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