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It’s very hot in Oregon — drink water, find air conditioning, check on your neighbors

Temperatures in much of Oregon are expected to surge well above 100 on Monday and Tuesday, with much of the I-5 corridor under an air quality advisory as well

Aug 15, 2023

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Bomb threat shuts down OHSU clinic after anti-trans information posted online

OHSU will beef up security in the wake of hateful messages, evacuation

Aug 8, 2023

Wildfire smoke filling the Willamette Valley in September 2017. | U.S. FOREST SERVICE

How to cope with heat, fire and smoke in Oregon

Extreme heat, wildfire and smoke are once again taking a toll on the state. Here’s how you can stay safe.

Jul 20, 2023

University of Oregon's new Portland campus, former home of Concordia University, pictured on July 2, 2023. | ROB MANNING/OPB

UO prepares to open doors to new Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health

Founders hope the Ballmer Institute, opening this fall, will help fill gaps in mental and behavioral health services in the state and the country

Jul 18, 2023

Members of Portland Street Response team at work. | COURTESY CITY OF PORTLAND

Dozens of organizations urge Portland City Council to reinvest in Portland Street Response

A coalition released a petition Monday calling on Portland City Council to fully fund and expand the city program that sends mental health workers — instead of police — to 911 calls

Jul 18, 2023

In this video screenshot, Tony Klein was deposed in November 2019 as part of civil litigation involving 10 women incarcerated at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, who accused him of sexual abuse. | VIDEO SCREENSHOT/PLAINTIFF DEPOSITION/MICHELLE BURROWS/OPB

Federal trial of former Oregon prison nurse begins

Sides give starkly different opening statements in trial of Tony Klein, the women’s prison nurse accused of sexual abuse

Jul 12, 2023

Large red building, the Oregon State Hospital

Oregon State Hospital in Salem. | BEN BOTKIN/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon State Hospital agreement would allow for flexibility on stay limits, pending judge’s sign-off

Jun 29, 2023

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Baker City hospital to close only maternity ward for miles

Saint Alphonsus Medical Center-Baker City will close its maternity ward in an increasingly common cost-saving measure for rural hospitals

Jun 29, 2023

people hold signs along a street as cars pass by, one sign says 'people not profits'

Nurses and other health care workers along with their supporters took to the picket lines outside Providence Portland Medical Center on Monday, June 19 as the state’s largest nurses union called a five-day strike. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT