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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
For 10 months, Service Employees International Union Local 503 has been trying to obtain names and other information about 70,000 Oregonians who applied for state background checks to work as ...
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 ...
Thirteen former Oregon Youth Authority staff have submitted sworn statements describing years of sexual abuse by a longtime agency physician and accusing OYA leaders of knowing about the abuse and ...
State Rep. Mark Owens (R-Crane) can see the fires from his front porch. This summer, the Big Grass, Coleman Creek, and Second Flat fires tore across southeast Oregon, all three of them megafires ...
On recent days in Prineville, smoke from the nearby Rowe Creek Complex wildfire feels “thick enough to cut with a knife,” said Beverly Friesen, an 81-year-old grandmother. For the first time in over ...
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