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In this photo provided by Alison Oszman, a fast-moving wildfire near the Oregon-Idaho border moves toward a home on Rye Valley Lane in Huntington, Ore., on Wednesday afternoon.

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Winds and lightning strikes stoke Oregon fire, now the largest in the U.S.

Smoke from the Durkee Fire in Oregon was choking the air in Boise, Idaho, and beyond. An air quality warning was in effect for the entire region on Wednesday.

July 25, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
In this image provided by the Baker County Sheriff's Office, responders aid in rescue efforts after a vehicle went into an embankment on U.S. Forest Service Road 39 on June 3, 2024, in Oregon. A dog helped his owner get rescued after the crash by traveling nearly four miles to the campsite where the man was staying with family, which alerted them that something was wrong, authorities said.

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A dog traveled nearly 4 miles to get help after its owner crashed into a ravine

The man was traveling with his four dogs when he ran off a remote road into a ravine in Oregon. One dog returned to where the man was camping with family, alerting them that something was wrong.

June 11, 2024
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  • The Associated Press

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  • Elections

Here are Oregon's 2024 primary election results

Voting concludes Tuesday in Oregon's presidential and U.S. House primary contests. President Biden and former President Donald Trump are already their parties' presumptive nominees.

May 21, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Oregon schools are struggling to recover academic learning losses, according to a recent study from researchers at Harvard and Stanford.

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  • Education

Why Oregon schools' pandemic recovery lags behind much of the nation

Oregon schools are struggling more than others across the country to recover academic learning losses. Experts say one likely reason is a lack of statewide consistency in tutoring interventions.

April 01, 2024
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  • Katia Riddle
A 15th century woodcut depicts a patient suffering from the bubonic plague. A pandemic of the disease, the Black Death, killed an estimated 50 million people in Europe between 1346 and 1353.

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  • Global Health

So you think you know all about the plague?

A case in Oregon is a rarity in the United States. It is not expected to spread. But this ancient and deadly disease remains a threat around the world.

February 14, 2024
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  • Michaeleen Doucleff
Chairs stand at the local post office in the aftermath of a fire in Gates, Ore., on Sept 9, 2020. An Oregon jury on Tuesday awarded $85 million to nine victims of wildfires that ravaged the state in 2020, in the latest trial faced by utility PacifiCorp over its liability in the deadly blazes.

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  • National

Oregon jury awards $85 million to 9 victims of deadly 2020 wildfires

The verdict comes in a series of legal proceedings that are expected to put the utility PacifiCorp on the hook for billions of dollars over its liability for the blazes.

January 24, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
An ice fisherman stands on the frozen Molly's Falls Pond in Marshfield, Vt., on Sunday.

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  • Weather

Much of the U.S. is still in the grip of icy weather that is blamed for 72 deaths

The numbing cold is expected to ease in the coming days as water systems in Memphis and other Tennessee cities battle broken pipes that have caused boil-water notices.

January 21, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
In this image made from a video provided by KGW, authorities work the scene Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, in Portland, Ore, after a power line fell on a vehicle, killing three people and injuring a baby during an ice storm that turned roads and mountain highways treacherous in the Pacific Northwest.

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The bitter cold gripping the U.S. is blamed for at least 40 deaths, 14 in Tennessee

Temperatures plunged below zero in parts of Tennessee, creating the largest power demand ever for the Tennessee Valley Authority. The icy blast stretches from Oregon to the Northeast.

January 19, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
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A mom and son are charged in Idaho after a teen is taken to Oregon for an abortion

With some narrow exceptions, abortion is banned in Republican-controlled Idaho but is legal in Oregon, and the state made it illegal to help minors get an abortion without their parents' consent.

November 02, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Ben Norris, 65, used to live on the streets. Now he's taking part in a pilot project in Oregon that uses Medicaid funds to pay for housing and rent for people who are homeless or in danger of becoming so.

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  • National

Can states ease homelessness by tapping Medicaid funding? Oregon is betting on it

Medicaid provides health care for tens of millions of low-income Americans. Now, for the first time, it's being used for housing and rent for people who are homeless or in danger of becoming so.

October 12, 2023
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  • Katia Riddle
Old growth Douglas fir trees stand along the Salmon river Trail on the Mt. Hood National Forest outside Zigzag, Ore.

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  • Environment

Judge: Trump-era rule change allowing the logging of old-growth forests violates laws

U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Hallman on Thursday found that the U.S. Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Forest Management Act and the Endangered Species Act.

September 01, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
This undated photo provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Portland Field Office shows the interior of a makeshift cinderblock cell in Klamath Falls, Ore., allegedly used as a prison cell from which a woman eventually escaped and found help.

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  • National

Woman's escape from cinder block cell likely spared others from same fate, FBI says

A woman who escaped her kidnapper by punching her way out of a homemade cell in southern Oregon likely saved other women from a similar fate, authorities said.

August 03, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
A wolverine is pictured on Jan. 28, 2016.

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  • Animals

A wolverine has been seen outside of its normal range for the first time in 30 years

In Oregon, wolverines are typically located in the Wallowa Mountains in the northeast of the state. But the animal was seen near Portland this week.

March 24, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
Law enforcement officers aim their weapons at a home during a standoff in Grants Pass, Ore., on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. Police said the standoff involving a man suspected in a violent kidnapping in Oregon who was barricaded underneath the home had been "resolved."

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  • National

Oregon kidnapping suspect dies of self-inflicted gunshot, police say

A suspect in a violent kidnapping in Oregon died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Tuesday night after being taken into custody following a standoff with law enforcement, a police spokesman said.

February 01, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
An undated photo provided by the Grants Pass Police Department shows Benjamin Obadiah Foster, who is wanted by authorities for attempted murder, kidnapping and assault.

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  • National

A man accused of torturing women is using dating apps to look for victims, police say

Authorities are looking for Benjamin Obadiah Foster, who they accuse of kidnapping and assaulting a woman in Oregon — years after he was charged with holding his then-girlfriend captive in Las Vegas.

January 30, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
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