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Mobile home residents band together to keep trailer parks affordable
13+ hour, 27+ min ago (1186+ words) On a Saturday morning in the ski town of Durango, Colo. , a family of five lounges in their pajamas inside a small, rectangular mobile home. This is the trailer Ver'nica and her family have called home for almost a decade....
California wants to fund green jet fuel " by raiding the road repair budget
11+ hour, 25+ min ago (1702+ words) Gov. Gavin Newsom is advancing a plan that could funnel hundreds of millions in road dollars to a struggling oil refinery " pitching it as a cleaner jet fuel initiative. The credit, drawn from funds voters designated for highways and local…...
New report puts outstanding Oregon criminal court sanctions at more than $1 Billion
15+ hour, 44+ min ago (598+ words) The Oregon Justice Resource Center, a Portland-based nonprofit that advocates for people in custody, released its findings Wednesday in a 68-page report in collaboration with the Policy Advocacy Clinic at UC Berkeley's School of Law and the Portland-based legal support…...
Josephine County Commission: 3 candidates outline competing visions
17+ hour, 17+ min ago (475+ words) Josephine County voters will choose among sharply different visions for local government as six candidates compete for commissioner, Seat 1, in the May 19 primary. Three candidates " Colene Martin, John West and Tracy Thompson " discussed their priorities in a recent roundtable, highlighting…...
Humboldt Repair Cafe helps keep broken items out of landfills
18+ hour, 58+ min ago (254+ words) A community repair effort on California's North Coast aims to keep usable items out of landfills. The Humboldt Repair Cafe, launched in April 2025, is a free event where volunteers repair broken household items. The concept began in Amsterdam and has…...
Local artists represent in NPR's Tiny Desk Contest
15+ hour, 27+ min ago (96+ words) Each year, NPR Music's Tiny Desk Contest attracts entries from all aross the country and across genres. Here's our first installment featuring entries from our region that stood out. We'll have more next week. First, from Lake Shastina, it's Radishmonster…...
Higher fuel, fertilizer prices could squeeze Oregon farmers, even if Iran war ends soon
18+ hour, 23+ min ago (964+ words) Matt Wood is a sixth-generation dryland wheat and barley farmer in Eastern Oregon. He'll remind people who don't farm for a living that commodity farmers don't get to set the price for their crop " markets do. So while the price…...
How Port Orford protects its water supply
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (223+ words) Port Orford, Oregon, is the westernmost city in the contiguous United States. About 1, 000 people live in the town, where coastal tourism and commercial fishing shape the economy. The city is home to the West Coast's only "dolly dock," a system…...
In the Klamath Basin, farmers brace for another tight water year
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (13+ words) Jefferson Public Radio...
Oregon lawmakers condemn Trump's "apocalyptic words' on Iran, call for Congress to step in
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (590+ words) Lawmakers in Oregon and beyond are calling for action after President Donald Trump threatened that "a whole civilization will die" if his demands in Iran are not met by Tuesday evening. Trump said Iran must meet his latest deadline to…...