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Oregon’s Employment Department is saying the right things about the state’s new paid leave program, Paid Leave Oregon. But what it is showing Oregonians about its performance is too meek

When a garter snake zipped across a path at River Bend Nature Center, Leah Inman didn’t hesitate before gently scooping it up.

If you search for the top employers in almost any city in Texas, tops among them will likely be hospital and school systems: K-12 and colleges and universities.

PLATTSBURGH — The passage of the state budget for fiscal year 2024-25 received mixed messages from North Country leaders.

From Baker County to Yamhill, Oregon is facing a serious shortage of doctors. With dozens of federally-designated Health Professional Shortage Areas across the state, we need more doctors to help

More than $100,000 will help local governments and nonprofit organizations improve Michigan waterways, including a $5,000 grant to the Newaygo Conservation District.

Aging services in Cascade and Missoula Counties are urging vigilance for Medicare enrollees around a scam offering free services or equipment in exchange for Medicare numbers. Renee Labrie-Shanks, Director of

Lewis and Clark County Public Health is joining with St. Peter’s Health and the Helena Police Department to increase behavioral health and crisis intervention services.

Facing a national teacher shortage — and struggling to fill vacancies in critical subjects such as special education, English language instruction, and science, technology, engineering and math — more districts are turning to professionals who decided to make education a second career.

MANTI, Utah — Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty hill just outside this small,