Terry Lundgren, retired CEO of Macy’s, greets Gerry Frank at the dedication on Friday, July 23, of the new The Gerry Frank | Salem Rotary Amphitheater in Riverfront Park. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter) UPDATE Sunday 6:30 p.m.: A statement from the family has been added. Gerry Frank, a lifelong Oregonian who[Read More…]

(Enterprise/FILE) Soaring energy prices are hammering Oregon’s farmers and ranchers, and the war in Ukraine is likely to only make that worse, experts say. The turmoil comes at a bad time, too. The state’s $5 billion agricultural industry has endured two tough years during the pandemic along with a continuing[Read More…]

Masked volunteers provide masks and other Covid prevention items to people in an event last year in Ontario. (Enterprise file photo) The last of the pandemic limits Oregonians have endured for two years are ending, with state authorities lifting mask requirements Friday, March 19, and the state of emergency ending[Read More…]

(Enterprise file photo) Secretary of State Shemia Fagan was right to keep former New York Times columnist Nick Kristof off the ballot for governor, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled Thursday. In a 33-page unanimous opinion, the court affirmed Fagan’s early January decision that Kristof hadn’t lived in Oregon long enough to[Read More…]

State Sen. Lynn Findley, R-Vale, says he focuses on good ideas and people who will work with him in a session where Democrats have the numbers to dominate. (Enterprise file photo) Two weeks into Oregon’s legislative session, Democrats are moving forward with plans to pay overtime to farmworkers, create job training[Read More…]

Blaine Williams of 1st Battalion, 186th Infantry Regiment of the Oregon National Guard, helps health care technician Heather Smith change patient bedding at Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg in August 2021. (Maj. W. Chris Clyne, Oregon National Guard Public Affairs) The Oregon National Guard is once again on the move[Read More…]

A nurse works tends to a Covid patient receiving monoclonal antibody treatment recently at Salem Hospital. State officials warned Friday that the Omicron variant is likely to put more than 3,000 people in the hospital in Oregon by February. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Oregon is facing a surge from the Omicron[Read More…]

Is your vehicle ready for these conditions? Here, an Oregon Department of Transportation plow clears a Vale street during a late-season storm in 2020. (Enterprise file photo) As colder weather and shorter days arrive, highway officials urge drivers to be prepared with traction tires or tire chains when needed for[Read More…]

(Enterprise file photo) The Oregon Board of Forestry last Friday picked a forester from Coos Bay to lead the Oregon Department of Forestry. Calvin Mukumoto, a former member of the state Parks and Recreation Commission and Board of Forestry and the U.S. Board for the Forest Stewardship Council, will lead[Read More…]

Officials are extending aid for SNAP recipients in November 2021. (U.S. Department of Agriculture photo) Most Oregonians who receive supplemental food aid will receive extra benefits in November. Nearly 400,000 households will receive about $63 million in emergency aid as part of ongoing pandemic relief from the federal government, according[Read More…]