The intense care required for Covid-19 patients has exhausted nurses and other health care staff. (Oregon Health & Science University photo) With the Covid-19 vaccine mandate looming, the Oregon Nurses Association stepped into the fray on Thursday, calling on the state to take “bold” action to give relief to nurses[Read More…]

State Rep. Bill Post, a Republican from Keizer, said he will continue serving in the Oregon Legislature despite his recent move to Nevada. (Bill Post photo) KEIZER – State Rep. Bill Post has sold his house in Keizer and moved to Nevada with over 15 months remaining in his term[Read More…]

SALEM – In the week since the Oregon Legislature eked out new congressional maps, would-be candidates have largely stayed mum about their potential campaigns. A handful of candidates have already announced their campaigns, but no one can officially file to run for Congress or the state Legislature until after the[Read More…]

Barricades mark one of many roadwork projects undertaken in recent months in the central Oregon city of Bend. (City of Bend website photo) BEND – The city of Bend must reallocate roughly $1.6 million to go toward tourism-related purposes after the Oregon Court of Appeals sided with the Oregon Restaurant and[Read More…]

Ross Lipson, left, and Zach Lipson are the co-founders of Dutchie, a Bend cannabis sales software firm. (Bend Bulletin photo) BEND – Cannabis consumers tend to be youngerand college educated, not unemployed drug users, according to a study done by Dutchie, a Bend-based online marketplace platform. Dutchie, created by Bend residents Ross[Read More…]

Poison control operators in Oregon have seen a third more calls this month for people who intentionally misused veterinary and human forms of ivermectin than they saw in all of the other seven months of the year combined. The Oregon Poison Center at Oregon Health & Science University has received[Read More…]

This image taken from a drone on Tuesday, Aug. 17, shows Mason Dam at lower right, and the water intake structure, center right near the shore, at Phillips Reservoir. (JAYSON JACOBY/Baker City Herald) There’s a strip of moist ground in Baker County that’s being exposed to the air after more[Read More…]

ROSEBURG – A Douglas County patient died yesterday at CHI Mercy Medical Center while waiting for a bed in the ICU to open up. The hospital, through the Douglas County COVID-19 Recovery Team, shared the story on Thursday afternoon. “This moment, we pause. A COVID positive patient was in our[Read More…]

KLAMATH FALLS – After burning for 39 days, the Bootleg Fire is now under the full containment of fire crews. The determination Sunday night marked the likely end of growth on Oregon’s third-largest wildfire since 1900, which burned over more than 400,000 acres of national forest and grazing allotments in[Read More…]

KLAMATH FALLS – In July, the number of dry wells registered in Klamath County was at 84. A month later, that number has climbed to 185 as wells from the California state line all the way to Crescent and La Pine are getting low and going dry. There are likely[Read More…]