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Smart cameras and AI can help ensure sustainable fisheries, ease burden of data collection - ODFW release - (WASHINGTON – Feb. 18, 2021) Environmental Defense Fund is launching a new platform today to improve d...

OPRD release - SALEM, Ore. – The State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation (SACHP) will meet February 19 via conference call to consider nominations to the National Register of Historic Places. This mee...

SALEM, Ore – The Forest Trust Land Advisory Committee will meet virtually via Zoom at 9:30 a.m. Friday, February 19. Items on the committee’s agenda include: An update on the Santiam State Forest recovery plan ...

Oregon Employment Dept. Weekly report - Life & Time, a free-range fast food restaurant, will open a second Bend location this summer. Baker Technical Institute in Baker City will start a truck driving and l...

The Oregon Health Authority’s COVID-19 Weekly Data report, released Thursday, shows sharp decreases in daily cases and increases in hospitalizations and deaths from the previous week. OHA reported 3,453 new dai...

The new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases reported today are in the following counties: Baker (6), Benton (17), Clackamas (31), Clatsop (2), Columbia (6), Coos (8), Crook (9), Curry (4), Deschutes (19), ...

The number of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 across Oregon is 169, which is 21 fewer than Wednesday. There are 52 COVID-19 patients in intensive care unit (ICU) beds, which is two fewer than Wednesday. The...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to report COVID-19 vaccine shipments across the country, including in Oregon, are delayed due to severe weather. Winter weather has hampered shipme...

Feb. 18, 2021, “Today’s update on the number of COVID-19 related deaths includes an infant who had tested positive for COVID-19 and died the same day,” said Dr. Dean Sidelinger, OHA’s health officer and state e...

PORTLAND, Ore. — There are six new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 2,149, the Oregon Health Authority reported at 12:01 a.m. Thursday. Oregon Health Authority reported 466 n...