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Details: Written by By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America; Published: 22 March 2023

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Analysts and agencies estimate Oregon is short 140,000 housing units, and federal data shows its homeless population has increased by 22% since 2020.

Details: Written by By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America; Published: 21 March 2023

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An Oregon bill that would expand access to reproductive health and gender-affirming care drew emotional testimony, mirroring the culture war debates over abortion, gender identity and parents' rights that are playing out in state legislatures across the U.S.

Details: Written by By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press; Published: 20 March 2023

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People have taken many steps in recent decades to help the Pacific Northwest's endangered killer whales, which have long suffered from starvation, pollution and the legacy of having many of their number captured for display in marine parks.

Details: Written by By HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press; Published: 20 March 2023

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The job cuts would mark the second largest round of layoffs in the company's history

Details: Written by By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer; Published: 20 March 2023

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Narasimhan succeeds longtime Starbucks leader Howard Schultz, who came out of retirement last spring to serve as interim CEO while the company searched for a new chief executive.

Details: Written by By GABE STERN, JAMES POLLARD and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press; Published: 20 March 2023

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State lawmakers nationwide are responding to the deadliest overdose crisis in U.S. history by pushing harsher penalties for possessing fentanyl and other powerful lab-made opioids that are connected to about 70,000 deaths a year

Details: Written by The Associated Press; Published: 20 March 2023

Detective Denise “Cookie” Bouldin filed the tort claim Friday. It alleges she has faced daily discrimination during her 43 years with the department.

Details: Written by The Associated Press; Published: 16 March 2023

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Two BNSF trains derailed in separate incidents in Arizona and Washington state on Thursday, with the latter spilling diesel fuel on tribal land along Puget Sound.

Details: Written by The Associated Press; Published: 16 March 2023

The package would dedicate about $200 million to the construction of more affordable housing, rehouse about 1,200 people without homes, prevent homelessness for more than 8,000 and expand shelter capacity by 600 beds.

Details: Written by Saundra Sorenson; Published: 15 March 2023

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