Charles Sams III of Oregon is slated to lead the National Park Service, including Crater Lake National Park. (National Park Service) President Joe Biden’s choice to lead the National Park Service told a U.S. Senate panel Tuesday he would work to rebuild the agency’s workforce, which has shrunk even as[Read More…]

A nurse tends to a patient in intensive care in Saint Alphonsus Medical Center’s Ontario Hospital. (Malheur Enterprise/LILIANA FRANKEL) Oregon’s urban hospitals have lost hundreds of employees and some have consolidated services over the state’s vaccine mandate but they’re continuing to admit patients, perform necessary surgeries and conduct lab tests,[Read More…]

Angelica Resendiz, a registered nurse with the Malheur County Health Department shows one of the syringes used to deliver flu vaccine. (The Enterprise/FILE) A federal judge on Monday struck down a last-minute attempt to block Oregon’s vaccination mandate for teachers, health care workers and state employees, while another heard arguments[Read More…]

As people hunkered down at home last year, trying to avoid becoming a pandemic statistic, Oregon’s nursery industry pulled in great numbers. The value of nursery plants grown in Oregon last year surpassed $1 billion for the second year in a row, and cherry and hazelnut growers also enjoyed a[Read More…]

Alan Booth inspect his bus before setting off on Route 513 in the Salem-Keizer School District. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) A shortage of bus drivers in many parts of the state have shown just how valuable the ride to and from school is. Districts and bus companies have been forced to[Read More…]

Incident reports from Oregon State Hospital provide a window into some of the chaos at the institution. (Salem Reporter graphic) SALEM – Raph can’t remember how many times the patient punched him in the head. It was just before 1 a.m. on July 5 when the patient, who had been[Read More…]

An Aug. 26 school board meeting in Oregon’s North Bend School District drew large crowds to discuss a resolution opposing the indoor mask mandate and a resolution banning the teaching of critical race theory. (North Bend School District YouTube) The North Bend School Board didn’t have anything controversial on its[Read More…]

A state Senate committee meeting on redistricting during a legislative special session on Monday, Sept. 20, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Oregon Capital Chronicle) Four former Republican officials in Oregon sued over newly drawn congressional boundaries, alleging that legislative Democrats created a “clear, egregious partisan gerrymander.”  The suit, filed in Marion County Circuit[Read More…]

Smoke from fires in southern Oregon during 2020 settle over a farm further north in Washington. (Peter Stevens, Flickr) Klamath Falls had as many elevated pollution days as cities like Phoenix, Cincinnati and San Antonio in 2020, according to a new report.  The non-profit Environment America, part of the left-leaning[Read More…]