Oregon families brace for SNAP changes; ODHS mails notices to 313,000 recipients

SALEM, Ore. — The Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) began mailing notices Oct. 15, 2025, to people in Oregon who applied for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food benefits between July 4 through Sept. 30, 2025, and whose...

Oregon Specialty Crop Block Grant Winners Announced

The Oregon Department of Agriculture and USDA have announced this year’s recipients of the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program funds. Nearly $2 million will fund 13 projects across Oregon, in an effort to boost the competitiveness of the state’s...

Oregon Health Authority to allow Trillium to take over serving Lane County PacificSource members

The Oregon Health Authority says insurer Trillium will take over 90,000 low-income patients served by PacificSource in Lane County. Springfield-based PacificSource announced last month it would not renew Lane County’s Medicaid contract, citing...

Oregon immigration groups sue federal agencies over access to detained residents

Innovation Law Lab filed a federal lawsuit challenging ICE and CBP practices that allegedly prevent detained Oregonians from accessing attorneys before transfers. OREGON, USA — Three Oregon immigration advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit...

Capital Chatter: Can Oregon balance its budget?

Published 9:38 pm Thursday, October 16, 2025 There will be no special legislative session this year to rescue Oregon’s state budget. There isn’t time before Dec. 31. H.R. 1, signed into law by President Donald Trump on July 4, is slashing Oregon’s...

Pinot Noir With An Italian Flare: Frescobaldi Comes To Oregon

The Domain Roy & Fils wine range consists of two Pinot noir and two Chardonnay expressions. Photo, courtesy Domain Roy Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi is a Tuscan wine dynasty with roots in medieval Florence, having been in the wine business since the...

Oregon lawmaker floats legislative special session in response to Trump immigration crackdown

Some Oregon Democrats are pushing for a possible special legislative session to respond to the Trump administration’s campaign of mass deportations and immigration raids, a Portland-area lawmaker said Thursday. Lawmakers plan to meet Friday with...

Geography complicates already-muddy Oregon insurance system

It’s that season again. No, I’m not talking about back-to-school season, holiday season or fall leaves. We’re now into health insurance choice season, which affects a lot of Americans, but referring here specifically to the Medicare side. It’s the...

Oregon singer to appear on new music competition with Keith Urban

An Oregon country artist is set to compete in a new CBS music competition, appearing beside country superstar Keith Urban. "The Road" premieres on CBS on Sunday, Oct. 19, and will feature a lineup of music artists from across the country...

Oregon Grapevine: Crossing Party Lines

Conflict and political disagreements are causing divides among friends and neighbors. Lisa Swallow of Crossing Party Lines speaks with Oregon Grapevine host, Barbara Dellenback, about how to develop curiosity and trust among people with different...

Building Broadband: Astound’s Newport, Oregon fiber network will serve 5K area homes; Ezee Fiber brings fiber to three new Texas communities

Astound’s Newport, Oregon fiber network will serve 5.9K area homes and businesses Astound has completed construction of Newport, Oregon's first fiber network, bringing the community’s more than 5,000 homes, along with 900 business and commercial...

Italian National Unlawfully Residing in Oregon Sentenced to Federal Prison for Conspiracy to Defraud the United States 

PORTLAND, Ore.—An Italian man unlawfully residing in Oregon was sentenced to federal prison yesterday for his role in a large multi-state criminal conspiracy that stole more than $2.4 million dollars of benefits from hundreds of low-income and...

Business Sourcing Journal Material World: Everlane Puffs Circular Chest, Haelixa and TextileGenesis Unite

Material World is a weekly roundup of innovations and ideas within the materials sector, covering news from emerging biomaterials and alternative leathers to sustainable substitutes and future-proof fibers. Caravel Bio Backed by a $7.8 million...

First Citizens Bank to buy BMO branches, including Worthington's

First Citizens Bank & Trust Company, the wholly owned banking subsidiary of First Citizens BancShares, Inc., announced Thursday that it entered into an agreement to acquire 138 branches in the Midwest, Great Plains and West regions of the U.S....

Travel Oregon board member’s company gets six-figure, no-bid contract from agency

Travel Oregon’s CEO claims the Department of Justice gave the travel agency permission to go forward with the contract, but DOJ disputes that. By James Neff Oregon Journalism Project David Penilton, a co-owner of America’s Hub World Tours, a small...

Researchers Found a Mysterious Spring Under the Cascadia Subduction Zone

Pythia’s Oasis is an odd piece of the world where fresh water leaks from under the sea. Photo: University of Washington About a decade ago, an oceanographer named Brendan Philip accidentally discovered something weird when he was poking around the...

Problem Solvers: Truck manfuactuer with Madras testing office says sales could stall due to Oregon’s emission standards

MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The manufacturer Daimler Truck, which has a headquarters in Portland and a testing office in Madras, is pushing back against the state's ambitious clean truck mandate, warning that a lack of infrastructure and sky-high costs...

Whatever happened to the Bronze Beaver statue? Oregon State digs up relic to rally fans

CORVALLIS — Matt Larson admits his article wasn’t well-researched or written. A reporter for Oregon State’s Daily Barometer student newspaper, Larson wrote a column in 1992 that the Beavers needed more traditions in football. He included several...

Redmond business to accept gift cards from closed Spa W

Published 12:07 pm Thursday, October 16, 2025 After 27 years of providing spa treatments in Bend, Spa W closed unexpectedly earlier this month, leaving people with gift cards holding the bag. A Redmond business, Lattanzi Spa, has agreed to provide...

Scammers trick Oregon coast woman out of $284K, but FBI intercepts Eugene woman before she hands over $800K in gold

Police in Oregon say that yet another resident has fallen victim to a nationwide gold bar and coin scam, this time losing approximately $284,000. The case marks at least the fourth victim that Oregon authorities have publicized since this summer....