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Marion County has joined a dozen cities in filing a lawsuit against the state over new rules meant to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Community members will be invited to give input about changes to how parking is required when new development is built. These changes are in response to recently adopted state requirements, known as the Climate Friendly and Equitable Communities, that direct cities to take steps to regulate parking in new ways. At the Wednesday Nov. 16 Bend City Council meeting, the Council directed staff to draft code language that would remove minimum parking requirements for new development throughout the cit...

El Cajon reported an uptick in criminal activity at participating hotels, but other cities are not seeing any correlation

San Diego County has launched two new efforts to help combat homelessness: the adoption of a policy enabling the use predictive analytics to help those at risk, and an app to help connect people experiencing homelessness with resources.

County officials Monday unveiled a proposed analytics policy to help prevent homelessness, along with an app-based tool that helps county employees connect unsheltered people to services.

Nathan Fletcher, Board of Supervisors chairman, has proposed developing a comprehensive integrated data system that allows county employees to evaluate if a...

While industry leaders have made progress in addressing some disparities in health care, it’s clear that many inequities remain in place. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated those inequities, which some experts discussed at the 2022 Alaska State of Reform Health Policy Conference. 

A group of six volunteers gathered at the Ketchikan Public Health Center on Monday morning to assist in constructing opioid overdose kits as part of Project Gabe, an opioid overdose

Eugene officials meet Monday and Wednesday. Springfield officials meet Monday. Lane County Commissioners meet Tuesday and Wednesday.

Nine of the 52 cities impacted by the state of Oregon’s parking requirements changes, approved earlier this year, plan to sue to stop the reforms.