(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…
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…
If new clean trucks rules pass, freight trucks will need to begin reducing emissions by 90% by 2027. (Salem Reporter photo) A future with electric garbage trucks and school buses and less polluting freight trucks is up for a vote in November by the state…
The Oregon House of Representatives on Monday, Sept. 20, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Oregon Capital Chronicle) Three months ago, most legislators agreed to let the state’s eviction moratorium expire but provide a 60-day grace period as landlords and tenants waited on bureaucrats to process rental assistance claims. …
Jess Tolman, the chief of Vale Fire and Ambulance, is warning of service impairments if the state’s vaccine mandate remains in place. (The Enterprise/Pat Caldwell) SALEM – Rural counties that fear first responders will quit in bulk ahead of a mid-October vaccine mandate need to…
SALEM – When Oregonians go to the polls in about a year, they won’t see their current governor on their ballot for only the second time this century. Gov. Kate Brown can’t run for a third term, leaving Democrats with a wide-open primary for the…
The Oregon State Hospital is calling on the National Guard to stem a staffing crisis that has ballooned in recent weeks, with one out of three of the nursing staff on the Salem campus out on leave. Activating the National Guard was the final step…
The Oregon State Capitol building in Salem. (The Enterprise/File) The Oregon Employment Department experienced a tenfold increase in identity theft issues in 2020 as new jobless claims poured in during the pandemic, mirroring a spike in claims that took place across the country. Cyberthieves capitalized…
Rebecca Jones Gaston (Contributed photo) Rebecca Jones Gaston stepped into one of the state’s biggest crises in 2019, taking over the Oregon agency charged with safeguarding children. Nearly 18 months later, Jones Gaston is optimistic. She is director of the state Child Welfare Division, where…