Oregon

This week, the League of Oregon Cities gathered in Salem to ask lawmakers to boost funding for local water and transportation infrastructure. City leaders also pushed for updated laws around homelessness, and for more flexibility to spend hospitality tax revenues. During...

MEDFORD, Ore. -- “We're seeing very high, high levels of flu activity in Oregon and Washington,” Shelley Atkeson, Pharmacy Leader at Fred Meyer in South Medford tells NewsWatch 12. “We're (also) seeing more complications for the flu.”. According to the latest data from the...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- As the state observed Data Privacy Day on Tuesday, the Oregon Department of Justice rolled out a new toolkit with additional handouts and social media content to help Oregonians protect their online information. Here's the department's news release on the...

About 300 miles off the Oregon coast is a gigantic underwater volcano approximately 3600 feet high. And a mile wide. And volcanologists believe that it may erupt in 2025. ‘Axial Seamount, a massive underwater volcano located nearly 300 miles off the Oregon coast, is showing...

Central Oregon firefighter back from California: Devastation on 'a whole another level'. Central Oregon Daily News spoke to one of the Central Oregon firefighters who just returned from two weeks battling Southern California wildfires. He says "whole communities" were wiped out.

Governor Tina Kotek is encouraging Oregonians to continue to seek care after an order to halt federal funding.

A strengthening atmospheric river will bring much-needed rainfall to Northern California, but questions remain about the weekend storm’s intensity and impact.

When a food recall has been issued, it's easy to panic. Food recalls aren't meant to scare you, but to be informative and potentially prevent foodborne illness from bacteria like listeria or salmonella . Each food recall has a different classification and indicates how severe a...

Frequent earthquakes 300 miles off the coast of Oregon signal escalation for the underwater volcano named Axial Seamount.

Thanks to the efforts of U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, $615,000 will be flowing to the Housing Authority of Washington County to help homeless veterans with housing issues. It’s part of $1.4 million in federal funding to help homeless veterans obtain affordable housing...