Flood water in southeast Oregon tests positive for E. coli
Severe flooding in Harney County, Oregon continues to displace hundreds of families in and around the city of Burns.
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Deschutes National Forest, Central Oregon Trail Alliance to begin work on West Bend Trails Project this week
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Deschutes National Forest says it will begin implementation of the West Bend Trails Project later ...
Gov. Kotek declares state of emergency due to flooding in Harney Co.
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek declared a state of emergency over the weekend due to severe flooding in Harney County.
Portlanders hold vigil for Dane Paulsen, other missing and murdered Indigenous kids
A Native American-led organization held a vigil in southeast Portland on Saturday to honor and grieve missing and murdered ...
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Siletz Tribe regains full fishing rights, 45 years after being forced to give them up
fishing and gathering under a 1980 agreement between the tribe, the state of Oregon and the federal government. That agreement was recently repealed, fully restoring the tribe's right to access ...
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Oregon lawmakers consider more funding for free tax preparation program
Current grantees include Oregon State University, Oregon Legal Aid Services, tribes and nonprofits that serve immigrants and farmworkers. Most are staffed with volunteers and interns and offer ...
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The Salmon Are Thriving. So Are Many of the People. Why Would Anyone Shut This Down?
Two species of suckers are sacred to the Klamath Tribes of Oregon, the predominant upper basin tribe that is an agglomeration of three separate tribes required by the federal government in 1864 ...
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Oregon bill takes aim at ‘epidemic of violence’ around missing and murdered Indigenous people
The Oregon Health Authority, the state’s health agency, would be tasked with the response, with Sanchez saying that it already has an existing prevention-model system used in public health crises and ...
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Northwest Forest Plan advisers told their committee will be disbanded
They’ve been meeting in person over dayslong meetings since summer 2023, hashing out how to tackle wildfires, pests and diseases across nearly 25 million acres of national forests in Oregon ... should ...
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Pressure builds on Army Corps to produce years-late reports on Willamette River Basin dams
Last June, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which operates a series of dams in Oregon's Willamette River ... a council member for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. The overdue reports ...
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The LandBack Movement: Native Nations and the Restoration of Ancestral Lands
David Helvarg, A River’s Rebirth: Klamath Dam Removals Offer New Life for Salmon as well as California and Oregon Tribes, 25 Am. Indian 1 (2024). In 2022, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ...
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Oregon bill takes aim at ‘epidemic of violence’ around missing, murdered Indigenous people
It also calls on the health authority to work with representatives of the nine tribes within the geographic bounds of Oregon and representatives from Native American-led organizations to implement ...