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Details: Written by Associated Press; Published: 10 September 2021

(AP Photo/Don Ryan, file)

The Oregon Transportation Commission has granted conditional approval to a plan to expand Interstate 5, as well as build a cap over the freeway to allow for the redevelopment of a Black community destroyed when the interstate was first built.

Details: Written by By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America; Published: 09 September 2021

Nearly three weeks after armed far-right and far-left protesters violently clashed in the streets of a diverse neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, the city's mayor said the lack of police intervention was “not the right strategy."

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 09 September 2021

Skyview High School senior Dylan Walker, 18, shows his support for masks in school during a demonstration with classmates and other protesters in Vancouver, Wash., on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian via AP)

Officials said they sought the injunction after people protesting a school mask requirement came onto the Skyview High School campus Friday, prompting lockdowns at several schools.

Details: Written by Jessica Heiges, University of California, Berkeley and Kate O'Neill, University of California, Berkeley; Published: 08 September 2021

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Most consumers don’t pay much attention to the packaging that their purchases come in, unless it’s hard to open or the item is really over-wrapped. But packaging accounts for about 28% U.S. municipal solid waste.

Details: Written by Saundra Sorenson; Published: 08 September 2021

Clifford Chappell, senior pastor of St. Johns All Nations Church of God in Christ in Portland

Religious and health care leaders share their own vaccination stories.

Details: Written by By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America; Published: 08 September 2021

Governor Kate Brown

Gov. Kate Brown, alongside state health and education officials, urged Oregonians on Tuesday to wear masks and get vaccinated as the highly transmissible delta variant continues to run rampant.