Jane Vaughan
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JPR
Oregon’s Providence hospitals and nearly 5,000 of its workers have yet to agree on terms to bump wages and address staffing shortages. That means the largest health care strike in the state’s history will begin Friday morning.
Andrea Johnson
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Oregon Department of Agriculture
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Rick Bowmer/APThe Biden administration is dropping its plan to conserve old-growth forests after getting pushback from Republicans and the timber industry.
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Josephine Community Library websiteIn one of their first moves as a newly-reconfigured board, the Josephine County commissioners unanimously decided to terminate the county's lease with the Grants Pass Library. This puts the library's near future in limbo.
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JPR's Vanessa Finney gets recommendations for this season's reading from three local booksellers: Lynn and Kat from The Book Exchange and Megan from Bloomsbury Books.
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Amazon’s push for small modular nuclear reactors is just the latest development in decadeslong fight over nuclear energy.
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Gov. Tina Kotek had urged the Biden Administration to choose Oregon for one of the research and development centers.
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Some significant cash rewards are being offered for information about the illegal killing of wolves across Oregon and Washington last year.
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Oregonians’ health care could face more change than most states under the new federal administration, and Dr. Sejal Hathi, director of the state health authority, said officials are preparing to respond quickly as things happen.
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Two sea turtles washed up along Oregon’s beaches in the final days of 2024 due to hypothermic shock, bringing the number of sea turtles that appeared on the state’s shores last year to 17.
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The Democratic attorney from Corvallis replaces retiring Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum.
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Five counties in eastern Oregon will get federal help paying for recovery from historic wildfires that destroyed rangeland, homes and other structures in central and eastern Oregon, hitting five counties the hardest.
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For the first time in almost a year, Ashland’s former emergency homeless shelter has reopened. But, it will provide shelter only until April 1.
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Just days after 5,000 Providence nurses and doctors announced plans to strike, the health care organization says it wants to return to mediation with doctors and other advanced practitioners who are planning to walk out.
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After extended rains across Southern Oregon and Northern California, the water levels in the region’s reservoirs have shot up significantly.
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In 2024, Oregon recorded the highest number of whooping cough cases, also known as pertussis, since 1950.
