SALEM — Oregonians can now pump their own gas across the state after the Oregon State Fire Marshal suspended self-service regulations and implemented additional health and safety guidelines for gas stations Saturday.
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SALEM — The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries sent out a reminder Friday that amid business closures and layoffs, employees are still owed their wages.
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PORTLAND — Disorganized and delayed coronavirus testing for employees at the state veterans home in Lebanon left infected caregivers on the job for days while they closely monitored and attend…
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SALEM — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown’s mid-March order shuttering the state’s public schools also applies to publicly funded online academies, state education officials said.
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SALEM — The Oregon Department of Justice is accusing four convenience stores of price-gouging on its sales of toilet paper, bottled water and surgical masks.
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SALEM — If state officials lifted the range of measures they have taken to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, an estimated 15,000 Oregonians could be sickened by the virus by May 8, accor…
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SALEM — Legislators meeting to plot the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic have made one thing abundantly clear.
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SALEM — High-schoolers applying to Oregon’s public universities won’t need to submit their SAT or ACT scores anymore.
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SALEM — The Oregon National Guard, in conjunction with the Oregon Department of Administrative Services is scheduled to provide and deliver 150 military cots along with blankets and hygiene pa…
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HOOD RIVER — Hood River, a Columbia River Gorge travel hub, has ordered an immediate halt to discretionary overnight stays, citing the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
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SALEM — The Oregon Health Authority is putting out a call for medical volunteers amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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Layoff involves 90 employees
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SALEM — This is the season when Oregon initiative campaigns normally crank up their canvassing drives to gain enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
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PORTLAND — People concerned about a cough or fever can soon call an Oregon Health & Science University COVID-19 hotline that doctors hope will help people figure out what’s going on and re…
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SALEM — Gov. Kate Brown said the far-reaching executive order she issued this week should not stop immediate families from motoring for relaxation or driving to a trailhead, as long as they ma…
SALEM — Oregon officials will begin releasing more data about the march of the coronavirus pandemic.
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SALEM — Oregonians now have until July 15 to file and pay their 2019 state personal or business income taxes. But any quarterly payments for 2020 still will be due April 15.
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SALEM — The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services issued a temporary emergency order on Wednesday requiring all insurance companies to extend grace periods for premium payments, …
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PORTLAND — Oregon has a lot of wide-open spaces. The state takes up some 98,000 square miles and has only 4 million people wandering around inside it.
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SALEM — Oregon established a mechanism on Tuesday for employees to report instances when businesses aren’t following health advisories for maintaining a safe environment amid the coronavirus o…
Crater Lake, Mount Rainier, other national park sites close
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SALEM — Oregon lawmakers are getting closer to the first of what many believe could be several special legislative sessions this year, as the state grapples with the spread of the coronavirus.
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SALEM — Gov. Kate Brown on Monday directed most Oregonians to stay home except for getting groceries, going to work or handling important activities that cannot wait.
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PORTLAND — For 30 years, Susan Mayea ran Park Place Gifts and Jewelry in downtown Portland. She’s 70 now and lives with her husband in the Mt. Tabor neighborhood.
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HOOD RIVER — Hood River County has its first confirmed COVID-19 case, the Hood River County Health Department announced on Sunday afternoon.
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The Astoria City Council on Sunday voted to ban visitors from staying in hotels and other commercial lodging to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
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PORTLAND — “The storm is coming,” Gov. Kate Brown said over the weekend in a plea for Oregonians to stay home to help prevent the further spread of the novel coronavirus. Patients with the vir…
Police say they’ve arrested a man accused of trying to sell thousands of face masks intended for hospital workers that were stolen earlier this month. Police said someone took 20 to 25 cases o…
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SALEM — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is working on a multipronged mandate to slow the spread of coronavirus, but she is not expected to issue the full-fledged “stay-at-home” order that Portland-area…
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As treatment centers close and public gatherings are prohibited to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus , Oregon’s recovering addicts are navigating an increasingly difficult path of sobriety.
SALEM — Two key Oregon legislators are proposing a 90-day plan for Oregonians to avoid evictions, get food, and keep health insurance while directing banks to help businesses survive with inte…
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SALEM — Portland moved closer to ordering most residents to stay home, so as to slow the spread of coronavirus, but Gov. Kate Brown is holding off on a statewide order.
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LA GRANDE — Union County has its first official case of COVID-19.
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SALEM — Across Oregon, schools and restaurants are shuttered, employers are encouraged to allow telecommuting and people are being told they should just stay home as the state tries to slow do…
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SALEM — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said Friday that during the coronavirus outbreak she wants a statewide eviction moratorium, to suspend enforcement on expired automobile tabs and driver licenses…
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SALEM — The Oregon Health Authority on Friday reported more than two dozen new cases of the novel coronavirus across nine counties, bringing the number of confirmed COVID-19 patients in the st…
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SALEM — The Oregon Department of Transportation announced Friday that local law enforcement officers will exercise discretion in their enforcement of driver licenses, vehicle registrations and…
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SALEM — With schools closed now through April 28, and colleges and universities told to move online to teach, educators and students across Oregon are facing a mass disruption in learning the …
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SALEM — While some states are postponing their primary elections, Oregon Secretary of State Bev Clarno announced on Thursday that the state’s May 19 primary will proceed as scheduled.
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SALEM — The Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems has called on Gov. Kate Brown to issue a shelter-in-place order requiring most businesses to close and require Oregonians to hunk…
SALEM — Health care providers in Oregon are running out of protective masks, surgical gowns and other personal protective equipment that protects them from contracting the coronavirus.
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SALEM — Oregon’s capacity to test for COVID-19 is beginning to ramp up.
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SALEM — While the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak has repeatedly led Gov. Kate Brown to restrict sectors of Oregon’s economy — from banning large gatherings to closing schools to turning re…
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Seven Central Oregon law enforcement deputies attending the state police academy in Salem were sent home after a fellow recruit exhibited signs of COVID-19.
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SALEM — A team of Oregon’s top government and business leaders are looking at every state program and agency to confront the economic erosion created by the outbreak of COVID-19.
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SALEM — As the coronavirus outbreak continues to disrupt daily life across Oregon, legislators had their first discussion on the Legislature’s possible response to the pandemic.
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SALEM — Oregon is erecting a 250-bed temporary hospital in Salem so as to free up other hospital beds around the state for coronavirus patients.
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PORTLAND — COVID-19 has claimed two more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll from this virus to three, the Oregon Health Authority reported at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.
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SALEM — The U.S. government is rushing protective equipment to states, packing dozens of flights and hundreds of trucks with supplies for medical workers who will be on the front lines of the …
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SALEM — For much of state government, life in the coronavirus era goes on with less interruption.
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UMATILLA COUNTY — As the coronavirus pandemic bleeds from a public health crisis into an economic one, Eastern Oregon cities and utility providers are grappling with how to relieve the financi…
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SALEM — Oregon schools will remain closed through the end of April, extending by a month the original closure ordered last week by Gov. Kate Brown.
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SALEM — As Gov. Kate Brown ramps up efforts to slow the spread of coronavirus, she worries about how her message is being received in rural Oregon.
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SALEM — Gov. Kate Brown announced on Tuesday she is restricting visitors to all nursing and residential care facilities, adult foster homes and group homes for people with intellectual and dev…
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PORTLAND — Multnomah County landlords temporarily won’t be able to evict tenants who can’t pay rent due to coronavirus.