Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska are seen outside the Common Hall at Christiansborg in Copenhagen, Monday Aug. 21, 2023. (Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

ANDREW SELSKY

Oregon officials credit early action, luck to curbing virus
Oregon appears to be an outlier as coronavirus cases start to peak in other states. Of all the states in America, Oregon is one of five states expected to have the fewest COVID-19 deaths per capita.
 
Virus: No date to lift restrictions, OR faces budget woes
A flattening of the number of coronavirus cases in Oregon should persist until at least mid-May if stay-at-home orders are followed.
 
Oregon residents assemble 11k masks for health-care workers
Hospital workers in Oregon are astounded at the community response to an effort to provide those on the front lines of the coronavirus fight with protective masks.
 
Oregon health officer: Spike in virus cases can be averted
As the COVID-19 pandemic claims a record number of jobs, Oregon’s health officer shared good news. Modeling shows the state won’t see a huge rise in cases as long as stay-at-home orders are heeded.
 
Democrat vies for Bend, Oregon, Statehouse seat
A county prosecutor in Bend, Oregon, announced Wednesday he will run as a Democratic candidate for a seat in the Oregon House of Representatives currently held by a Republican.
 
Oregon wrestles with building facilities in tsunami zones
Experts say the big one is coming to the Pacific Northwest: a massive earthquake that will cause buildings and bridges to collapse and unleash a tsunami that will devastate the coast.
 
Flooding starts to abate; 21 people evacuated to safety
Oregon National Guard troops aboard two helicopters airlifted 21 people to safety on Saturday, and authorities reported a 62-year-old woman who lived in one of the areas hit by floods was missing.
 
Public hearing on climate bill draws big crowd in Oregon
So many people flocked to the Oregon State Capitol to testify Saturday at a public hearing on a climate change bill that the allotted time for each to speak was reduced to 90 seconds.
 
Oregon Democrats seek to change quorum rules, end walkouts
Democrats in the Oregon Statehouse seek to have voters change its quorum rules, so walkouts by lawmakers can no longer stymie legislation.
 
Oregon looks, again, to crack down on labor trafficking
In 2007, the Oregon Legislature passed a bill promoted by then Sen. Kate Brown making it crime to force someone to work.
 
Man charged with hate crimes in beating of 70-year-old woman
Prosecutors in Oregon say a man was charged with attempted murder and hate crimes after breaking into a motel office and attacking a 70-year-old immigrant from India who owns the business with her husband, also an immigrant.
 
Lawsuit says immigration courts are now deportation machines
Law groups representing immigrants say the immigration court system under the Trump administration has become a “deportation machine.”
 
Pipeline protesters at governor’s office arrested, released
Authorities have released 21 people protesting a planned liquefied natural gas pipeline who were arrested Thursday night during a sit-in at the governor’s office in the Oregon State Capitol.
 
Oregon’s chief justice bars ICE from courthouse arrests
Seeking to halt federal agents from arresting people in courthouses for immigration violations, Oregon’s Supreme Court chief justice has enacted a rule prohibiting civil arrests in state courthouses unless the arresting agency has a judicial arrest warrant.
 
GOP efforts to recall Oregon’s Democratic governor fail
A pair of recall efforts by Republicans to oust Oregon’s Democratic governor failed with officials saying one lacked the necessary number of signatures and the other failing to submit any signatures to election officials.
 
2nd death in Oregon from vaping-related illness
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown says a second Oregonian has died from a vaping-related lung illness. In a statement Thursday, the governor said the Oregon Health Authority informed her of the death.
 
Resignation of Oregon public records advocate stirs doubts
The resignation of Oregon’s first public records advocate has raised doubts about whether Democratic Gov.
 
Plane crash kills as fly-in set to start in Oregon
As dozens of horrified pilots and other aviation enthusiasts looked on, a small plane took off from an airfield in the scenic Oregon town of Hood River. It then plummeted to the ground after its engine cut out, killing the pilot and his passenger.
 
Oregon Democrats aim to change quorum after GOP walkouts
After two walkouts this year by minority Republican senators in the Oregon Legislature snarled the chamber’s business, Democrats say they will ask voters to change quorum rules.
 
Police staffing increased in presence of Oregon senator
A Republican lawmaker who threatened the Senate president and Oregon State Police on the eve of a revolt by GOP senators over a climate-change bill must give notice before coming to the Capitol, where state troopers will beef up their presence.
 
Oregon senator, a war veteran, now under fire for threats
An Oregon state senator who once worked in the world’s hotspots as a military contractor and soldier now finds himself under fire -- this time from fellow lawmakers and the governor after he threatened state police and the Senate president ahead of a walkout by Republican lawmakers.
 
Record number of African migrants coming to Mexican border
People fleeing economic hardship and human rights abuses in African countries are coming to the U.S.-Mexico border in unprecedented numbers.
 
US court weighs if climate change violates children’s rights
Federal judges are wrestling over whether climate change violates the rights of young people who have sued the U.S. government over the use of fossil fuels.
 
Pioneering Oregon state Sen. Jackie Winters has died
Veteran Republican state Sen. Jackie Winters, the first African-American Republican elected to the Legislature, died on Wednesday. She was 82.
 
Enough GOP senators return to end Oregon tax bill standoff
Republican senators hid from the Oregon Senate sergeant-at-arms for days over a tax bill, but enough returned to work after a deal was struck Monday afternoon.
 
Former Oregon First Lady agrees to $50k fine
Former Oregon First Lady Cylvia Hayes has agreed to pay a fine of $50,000 after she was accused of committing 22 violations of state ethics laws.
 
Report: Record number of wolves in Oregon
 
Uncounted Oregon votes expose election vulnerability
Days before last November’s elections, members of a political action committee in Oregon went door-to-door in Portland and its suburbs and collected filled-in ballots from voters, saying they would mail them in.
 
Feds: Forgery operation produced over 10,000 fake documents
A man from a primarily Hispanic town in Oregon has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to produce false documents after agents found a document-forging lab in his apartment that is alleged to have produced over 10,000 fake Social Security cards, drivers’ licenses and immigration-related documents.
 
Mourners recall Dennis Richardson’s dedication to Oregon
 
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