WEITCHPEC, Calif. (AP) — Native tribes in the U.S. West are making progress toward restoring their ancient practice of treating lands with fire. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples set fire to clear forest floors […]
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say a bullet struck the brim of a baseball-style cap worn by a Boise, Idaho, police officer who exchanged gunfire with the gunman in Monday’s shooting at the city’s largest […]
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is applauding numbers showing that about 94% of state employees are vaccinated against COVID-19 or have received exemptions from his mandate, and 3.1% are waiting to get a vaccine or exemption. […]
On October 20, 2021, Governor Brown utilized her executive clemency authority to retroactively change prison sentences for approximately 75 individuals statewide.[1] Those offenders are serving adult-length sentences for violent crimes that they committed when they were 15, […]
Oct. 29, 2021 (Salem, OR) – The Employment Department has good news for Oregon employers contributing to the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Trust Fund. Oregon is lowering the payroll tax rate to an average rate of 1.97 percent (tax […]
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