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Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 20 December 2022

Washington Governor Jay Inslee (AP Photo/Ted Warren)

Updated standards for new cars and trucks are part of suite of momentous climate policies

Details: Written by Associated Press; Published: 19 December 2022

Oregon Coast

This week's decision by top state officials, was to separate the Elliott State Forest in southwest Oregon from its obligation to fund schools and designate the land as a place for scientific discovery.

Details: Written by By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer; Published: 16 December 2022

(Kerem Yücel /Minnesota Public Radio via AP)

The union says it expects the strike will shutter some stores entirely; at others, managers or other workers may keep the stores open.

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 16 December 2022

Portland Parks Commissioner Carmen Rubio

After 93 years of serving North Portland, Columbia Pool will permanently close due to life-safety hazards and diminishing structural integrity.

Details: Written by By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press; Published: 15 December 2022

(AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

It's the largest environmental damage recovery in Oregon's history and “magnitudes larger” than any other state settlement over PCB contamination by Monsanto

Details: Written by The Associated Press; Published: 15 December 2022

Tacoma sheriff Ed Troyer (Photo via Twitter)

Prosecutors accused Troyer of lying when he called an emergency dispatcher, saying four times that Sedrick Altheimer, a Black newspaper carrier, was threatening to kill him.

Details: Written by Saundra Sorenson; Published: 15 December 2022

The Horizon Enterprise Building, located at 433 NW 4th Ave., is set to open in June 2023.

Horizon Enterprise Building to offer space, equipment, community as “international beacon of BIPOC creativity.”

Details: Written by By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press; Published: 14 December 2022

Governor Kate Brown

Brown, a Democrat with less than a month remaining in office, said she was using her executive clemency powers to commute the sentences and that her order will take effect on Wednesday.