November 22, 2020, 6:05am Life
Are Amazon boxes filled with uninspired products creating a barrier to your creativity this gift-giving season? The new, Built Oregon Marketplace makes it easy to shop local. Oregonian makers have invented food, books and looks with a Pacific Northwest flavor that can be picked up at their shop or delivered. Read story
November 21, 2020, 6:21pm Northwest
Portland officials on Thursday unveiled a new proposal that seeks to tax major greenhouse gas producers and air polluters in the city to help combat climate change. Read story
November 21, 2020, 6:00pm Northwest
Responding to a surge in COVID-19 caseloads, UW Medicine has decided to postpone surgeries that are not urgent but would require hospitalization afterward, according to an internal email and confirmed by a spokesperson. Read story
November 21, 2020, 5:58pm Northwest
PORTLAND (AP) — The Oregon Restaurant & Lodging Association is seeking a court order from a federal judge to block Gov. Kate Brown’s “two-week freeze” that bans dining in restaurants in response to a spike in COVID-19 cases. Read story
November 21, 2020, 1:33pm Northwest
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The Trump administration announced plans Thursday that ease protections for sage grouse in the West, prompting an outcry by critics who say the move paves the way for widespread mining and drilling and ignores a federal court ruling. Read story
November 21, 2020, 1:07pm Northwest
COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) — The Dec. 1 commercial Dungeness crab season has been delayed until at least Dec. 16 for the entire Oregon coast because testing shows crabs are too low in meat yield. Read story
November 21, 2020, 1:01pm Northwest
PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — A 39-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for a triple homicide east of Port Angeles. Read story
November 20, 2020, 7:38pm Northwest
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho prison officials must turn over information about where they got lethal injection drugs used in recent executions, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday, the latest turn in a long-running challenge over transparency in executions that’s playing out nationwide. Read story
November 20, 2020, 7:27pm Northwest
PORTLAND — Oregon has reported a record number of coronavirus cases Friday, with hospitalizations at their highest since the pandemic began, officials said. Read story
November 20, 2020, 4:17pm Latest News
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Friday announced $135 million in grants, loans and other assistance to help businesses and workers hurt by new restrictions he imposed through mid-December in response to a rising number of coronavirus cases across the state. Read story