11-24-2024  1:18 am   •   PDX and SEA Weather

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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.

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(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.

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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.

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(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

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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(AP Photo/Claire Rush, File) 

In her resignation letter, Scroggin said misinformation and disinformation “have made the work of administering elections extremely challenging.”

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Twenty-seven Black people, former residents or descendants of former residents of the Albina neighborhood, are suing Portland

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Brittany Gadbury Wade, Black Cultural Library Assistant, North Portland Library 

For the past 20 years, North Portland Library has been hosting a community Kwanzaa event. After a two-year pause of in-person events, it's back.

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