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Shutdown threatens heating assistance for eastern Oregon homes
Published 5:30 am Tuesday, November 4, 2025 PENDLETON — Cold weather is approaching, and the government shutdown is leaving many seniors and disabled residents in eastern Oregon unsure whether they will receive help paying their heating bills. The...
Owner: Todd Carpenter
Fairphone’s U.S. Debut: Headphones Lead the Charge in Right-to-Repair Revolution
In a bold move that underscores the growing momentum of the right-to-repair movement, Dutch electronics maker Fairphone is finally crossing the Atlantic. The company, renowned for its modular and sustainable devices, announced its entry into the...
Trump Team Takes Aim at State Laws Shielding Consumers' Credit Scores from Medical Debt
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HealthLeaders - Tennessee
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This article was published on Wednesday, October 29, 2025 in KFF Health News. By Noam N. Levey The Trump administration took another step Tuesday to weaken protections for Americans with medical debt, issuing new guidance that threatens ongoing...
Owner: Leeds Equity Partners
How the world’s cities are going digital and what it means for construction
The Cities industry breakout session at the 2025 Bentley Systems Year In Infrastructure event. Image: KHL Construction Briefing was in attendance, noting the key issues facing contractors navigating the digital world while building in urban...
Owner: KHL Group LLP
Area woman wins rodeo queen title in Oregon
After 10 years competing in rodeo events, Athol resident Hayven Chase won the title of rodeo queen title, Miss Columbia River Circuit 2026 through the Professional Cowboy Rodeo Association. The circuit covers PRCA rodeos in Washington, Oregon and...
Owner: Hagadone Family
OREGON: Hazelnut Orchard Buy Could Save City Drinking Water
EUGENE, Oregon, October 31, 2025 (ENS) – The Upper Willamette Soil & Water Conservation District, UWSWCD, is planning to acquire a 200+ acre hazelnut orchard located on the lower McKenzie River to protect the drinking water of Eugene, a college...
Owner: Sunny Lewis
ODFW stocks 50K kokanee in Green Peter Reservoir despite drawdown
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Statesman Journal - Oregon
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Kokanee are coming back to Green Peter Reservoir. Whether they’ll actually stay there for anglers to catch remains an open question. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife stocked 50,000 kokanee fingerlings in the reservoir northeast of Sweet...
Owner: Gannett Co. Inc.
Sweet music: Bend’s Breedlove Guitars is donating 75 guitars to six area middle and high schools
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Bend guitar manufacturer Breedlove Guitars will donate 75 guitars to middle and high schools throughout the Bend-La Pine School District, Economic Development for Central Oregon announced Thursday. "This collaboration between...
Owner: Bradley Family
2025-26 Oregon Ducks Basketball Season Preview
The 2025-26 ‘BTPowerhouse Season Preview’ series will take an in-depth look at all 18 teams in the Big Ten heading into the 2025-26 season with analysis on each program’s previous season, roster overhaul, and top storylines. Each post will also...
Owner: Jay Penske
GUEST COLUMN: Our students can close the cybersecurity talent gap
Published 8:35 am Thursday, November 6, 2025 In Oregon and across the U.S., the conversation around cybersecurity is too often framed in technical jargon or vague alerts. But the reality facing school leaders, economic planners, and national...
Owner: Todd Carpenter
Bend-La Pine Schools to Relocate Realms Schools in 2026
(Photo courtesy of Bend La Pine Schools) Realms Middle School and Realms High School, which share a leased building in northeast Bend, will relocate to other sites owned by Bend-La Pine Schools after the end of the current school year. The...
Owner: Jeff Martin
Colorado’s Magic Mushroom Industry Has Officially Arrived
Natural medicine (i.e., magic mushrooms) in Colorado is reaching new highs. On June 6, 2025, the first state-regulated psilocybin session, a five-hour high-dose facilitation bookended by required preparation and counseling,1 was conducted in...
Owner: Aviva Cuyler
Northern lights may be visible in Maine due to solar storms
Solar storms may bring colorful auroras to Maine, New Hampshire and other northern states Thursday night.The sun released a huge burst of energy called a coronal mass ejection that is currently on its way to Earth, prompting space weather...
Owner: Hearst Family
Two Hydrogen Hubs Respond to Sudden Federal Funding Cuts
Following the October cancellations of two separate $1-billion grants for "hydrogen hubs" on the West Coast, the public-private entities that represent scores of companies, institutions, agencies and others seeking to develop projects using the...
Owner: Henderson Family
Fluor and NuScale Announce Agreement Regarding Stake Monetization
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Voice of Alexandria - Minnesota
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IRVING, Texas & CORVALLIS, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 6, 2025-- Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) (“Fluor”) and NuScale Power Corporation (NYSE: SMR) (“NuScale”) today announced that they have reached an agreement regarding the conversion and...
Plastics recycling is in trouble
Key Insights Many large consumer product companies are falling short of the plastics recycling targets they set several years ago. Observers say this failure has contributed to hard times for the companies that process plastic waste into recycled...
Owner: Environmental Health Sciences
Spanning the gap over Oregon’s Coos Bay
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Civil Engineering - Virginia
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The Coos Bay Bridge was one of the last that Conde B. McCullough, M.ASCE, NCE, designed for Oregon. (Photograph created by Jet Lowe/courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/HAER ORE,6-NOBE,1--13) By Leslie Nemo When the...
Owner: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Northern Lights may be visible again over Wisconsin Thursday night due to solar storm
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - Solar storms may bring colorful night skies, or auroras, to Wisconsin and other states in the Upper Midwest Thursday night. A large burst of energy called a coronal mass ejection (CME) is currently on its way to Earth,...
Owner: Gray Television Inc.
Northern lights may be visible due to solar storms | See where
Solar storms may bring colorful auroras to several northern U.S. states Thursday night. The sun burped out a huge burst of energy called a coronal mass ejection that's currently on its way to Earth, prompting space weather forecasters to issue a...
Owner: The Walt Disney Company
Exclusive: Crews race the clock as Elmer’s moves into former Shari’s site in Bend
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- We’re just weeks away from Oregon’s own Elmer’s Restaurant opening its newest location in Bend—and KTVZ got an exclusive behind-the-scenes look as construction crews race toward the finish line. The restaurant is taking over...
Owner: Bradley Family