Oregon hits 5 years since state's first reported COVID-19 case
The emergency is over, but the long-term effects of the pandemic are still highly visible across multiple sectors including education, business and real estate.
Wastewater testing helped track COVID-19’s spread. Bird flu might prove harder to monitor
Enter wastewater surveillance — a tool public health officials used during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to monitor the ...
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Oregon’s High Testing Opt-Out Rates Aren’t an Excuse for Poor Student Outcomes
In 2015, then-Gov. Kate Brown signed House Bill 2655, which requires districts to send out notices to parents and allow them ...
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The COVID pandemic’s lingering physical and mental toll, five years later
Five years ago this week, the World Health Organization called the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. In the United States, ...
Incomes are rising across the Portland area, but much more slowly in one county
Annual median household income topped $100,000 in 2023 for the first time in Clackamas and Washington counties, according to ...
Where Oregon women stand in updated March Madness bracket predictions after Indiana loss
The Oregon women's basketball team will likely have to sweat out Selection Sunday March 16 after a loss to Indiana in the Big ...
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Mainland history teacher reminisces about COVID-19 pandemic's effect on schools
On January 14, 2025, at Mainland Regional High School, History Teacher Scott Betson, seen here teaching his sophomore A.P.
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Idaho governments can’t require masks for infectious diseases, after governor signs bill
Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed into law a bill that bans government and school mask mandates to combat infectious diseases.
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Long COVID: More students falling behind in reading, math since pandemic
The recently released ‘National Report Card’ test scores show 40% of fourth graders don’t have basic reading skills, and 39% ...
Flu deaths may have surpassed COVID deaths nationwide for first time since start of pandemic, early CDC data suggests
Partial CDC data suggest that influenza deaths may have already reached as high as 2% of deaths for the week ending on Feb. 1, also surpassing COVID-19 mortality nationwide which was holding at around ...