Diane Megaw

Senate Bill 551, the bill banning all bags made of plastic film at checkout in restaurants, grocery stores, and other retail locations, passed the Oregon Senate with a vote of 22-8, taking a step closer to becoming law. The Oregon Senate…

The Oregon Department of Emergency Management (OEM) laid out the state’s Comprehensive Homeland Security Strategy 2025 to 2028, which seeks to address natural, technological, or human-caused risks as they arise over the next three years.…

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The Disability Rights Oregon et al. v. Grants Pass injunction, which blocked the removal of campsites or tents from city property until Grants Pass provided 150 spaces for public camping, was modified yesterday to allow…

MEDFORD, Ore. — The popular Medford Open Streets, a free community event, returns to downtown this Saturday, May 31. Medford citizens are invited to walk, roll, or take the bus to Medford Open Streets on Saturday to enjoy the free event…

Oregon’s Attorney General, Dan Rayfield, joined a 16-state coalition of attorneys general to defend National Science Foundation (NFS) funding slashed by the Trump administration and increase diversity in science, technology, engineering,…

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Grants Pass Police Officers arrested 20-year-old Aiden Steven McCarroll and two juveniles yesterday in connection with a robbery with a knife on Thursday, May 22, 2025, at about 5:24 p.m. in the 1200 block of Rogue River…

An Estacada, Oregon, man, 29-year-old Anthony Barrera, caught transporting 270 pounds of methamphetamine from Southern California to Oregon near Roseburg, has been criminally charged with possessing methamphetamine and cocaine with the…

A 37-year-old Iranian man, Sina Gholinejad, pleaded guilty to participating in an international scheme involving the Robbinhood ransomware yesterday. The cyber-attacks were conducted across the US as Gholinejad and his associates…

Oregon State University (OSU) researchers have developed groundbreaking technology designed to cut the energy consumption of artificial intelligence's Large Language Models (LLMs) by half, addressing the potential shortfall in available…

ROSEBURG, Ore. — A Roseburg man, 29-year-old Jesse Lee Proffitt, was arrested on Wednesday night after surveillance videos in Jungle Things Oregon, a Roseburg business, showed him stealing seven exotic lizards. Responding to reports of a…