May 16, 2021, 10:14am Northwest
SEATTLE — King County will buy the Inn at Queen Anne, a hotel that has been housing homeless people in Seattle for roughly a year, as well as four or five other hotels in the coming weeks. King County Executive Dow Constantine said that it is part of an effort… Read story
May 16, 2021, 6:05am Northwest
A lawsuit filed on behalf of 70 landowners in the McKenzie River Valley seeks $103 million from two public utilities, Lane Electric Cooperative and Eugene Water & Electric Board, for damages arising from the Holiday Farm Fire, one of the Labor Day conflagrations that ravaged communities around the state. Read story
May 16, 2021, 6:05am Northwest
BEND, Ore. — It is going to be a hiking season unlike any other in Central Oregon. Read story
May 16, 2021, 6:03am Northwest
OLYMPIA — After several years of devastating wildfires across Washington, lawmakers this year agreed to make a major investment in wildfire prevention and forest health. Read story
May 16, 2021, 6:02am Latest News
In 2019 and again in 2020, Oregon Republicans walked out of the state Legislature to prevent a vote on cap-and-trade climate bills. The legislation was meant to drive down the state’s carbon emissions, but Republicans feared the bills would place the greatest burden of higher fuel prices on sparsely populated… Read story
May 16, 2021, 5:15am Business
Not every home for sale is flying off the market at record prices, despite the frustration felt by hopeful buyers. Interest in downtown Portland’s luxury condos has fallen so much that next-door neighbors are snapping up an adjacent unit to expand their living space, a condo combining concept seen in… Read story
May 15, 2021, 8:07pm Northwest
May 12—With a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake and tsunami on the horizon, Clatsop County has taken steps to protect residents and tourists from catastrophe. Read story
May 15, 2021, 6:46pm Nation & World
May 12—Undocumented and international students attending college classes as of March 2020 will be eligible for emergency assistance grants from the federal government, the Biden administration announced Tuesday. Read story
May 15, 2021, 6:39pm Nation & World
Few people will look back fondly on the year 2020, with the possible exception of one group: new parents. Read story
May 15, 2021, 12:56pm Latest News
PORTLAND — The water crisis along the California-Oregon border went from dire to catastrophic this week as federal regulators shut off irrigation water to farmers from a critical reservoir and said they would not send extra water to dying salmon downstream or to a half-dozen wildlife refuges that harbor millions… Read story