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Public Forests Net $13.5 Million in Oregon as BLM Timber Demand Surges
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Oregon indicated yesterday that the July timber sales earned almost $13.5 million. The dollars will support jobs and local economies while aiding sustainable forest management.
BLM Oregon…
Man Living Illegally in Oregon Caught with 43 Pounds of Fentanyl and Heroin
A Mexican national living illegally in Salem appeared in court this week, charged with trafficking more than 43 pounds of fentanyl and heroin in Oregon.
Gildardo Rivera Garcia (45), charged with possession and distribution of heroin and…
Grants Pass Poacher Wanted After Buck Shot and Abandoned Near NW Vine Street
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Oregon State Police are searching for the person or persons who shot a buck deer and left it to die in Grants Pass on July 21.
The police from the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Division are appealing to the public who have…
OHSU Study Finds COVID Causes Metabolic and Cognitive Changes Long After Virus Clears
A COVID-19 study on rhesus monkeys conducted by scientists at Oregon Health & Science University has revealed that a seemingly short-term illness has a lasting impact on the body long after the virus has disappeared.
Although…
Klamath County Cuts All Animal Control Funding, Leaving Just Two Clerks to Cover Entire Region
KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. — The Klamath County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) indicated that staffing cuts following the removal of all county general fund dollars from Animal Control for this fiscal year included the loss of four Animal Control…
Oregon Becomes First State to Guarantee Insurance Coverage for Advanced Breast Reconstruction
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek signed Senate Bill 1137, ensuring that health insurers must now cover autologous breast reconstruction surgery, which uses the patient's own tissue rather than implants.
Signing the bill puts Oregon, the first…
Drive-By Shooter Still at Large as Medford Police Hunt for Blue Dodge Pickup
MEDFORD, Ore. — As part of a drive-by shooting investigation, the Medford Police Department (MPD) has asked the public to help identify the blue Dodge Pickup in this video:
The blue Dodge pictured in the video was…
Honduran National Caught in Portland with Ten Pounds of Fentanyl and a Sweetener Used to Cut Drugs
PORTLAND, Ore. — An Illegal immigrant has been sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to possession and conspiracy to distribute fentanyl in Oregon.
Edis Odalis Centeno Banegas (45), a Honduran national living…
Two Children Test Positive for Meth After Portland Mom Found Unresponsive at Home
PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland woman, 23-year-old Chloe Alethia Barnes, was arraigned last Thursday on four counts of criminal mistreatment and two counts of child neglect after witnesses reported her 3-year-old child wandering the streets…
Oregon Governor Says Affordable Housing Shortage Is Driving the State’s Homelessness Crisis
Oregon’s shortage of affordable housing is the ‘stubborn engine of our homelessness crisis,’ Governor Tina Kotek said yesterday when she ceremoniously signed housing-related bills into law.
The ceremony took place at the Century Commons…