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The Oregon Department of Transportation said that the $32 million retrofit project will continue over the next four years.

Hundreds of thousands without power in NW snow, ice storm; I-84 still closed Eric Patterson/KGW Gov. Brown declares state of emergency in 9 counties LAKE OSWEGO, Ore. (AP) — A winter storm has blanketed the Pacific Northwest with ice and snow, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power and prompting Oregon Gov. Kate Brown to declare a state of emergency. Freezing rain left roads, power lines and trees coated in ice in the Portland region. By Saturday morning, more than 1,200 power lines were down, leaving 270,000 people without power. Snow was expected to continue falling in Wa...

Statehood for Oregon was a lesson in patience as much as it was politics. We were admitted as the 33rd state of the union more than a year after petitioning. President James Buchanan signed the act on Feb. 14, 1859, but the celebration didn't happen for another month because it took that long for the news to travel across the country. But let's rewind and start from the beginning as we celebrate our 162nd birthday. Here are 14 things to know about the road to statehood: 1. Native Americans first on the land Pioneers described the Oregon Territory as pristine and untouched wilderness, yet it...

Mark Power’s ongoing US photo series drifts towards dystopia The third volume in the photographer’s Good Morning, America book series paints a sobering portrait of the US, bookending a year that has changed the country forever 15/01/2021 7:57 am Brighton-based photographer Mark Power has released the third volume in his five-part book series Good Morning, America, which he began photographing in 2012. The new volume features images taken in New England in late 2019 and the beginning of 2020 in Arizona and New Mexico, interspersed with archival images taken earlier on in the project acro...