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Coronavirus in Oregon: 87 new cases, no deaths as state gears up to draw vaccine lottery winners OregonLive.com 8 hrs ago Oregon announced 87 new coronavirus cases Monday and no new COVID-19 deaths. The Oregon Lottery will soon start to select random winners from among 2.3 million Oregonians who have received at least one shot of the COVID-19 vaccine. The state has for months been trying to motivate the public to get shots. Oregon is doling out 134 prizes, including a $1 million drawing, $10,000 prizes for one person in each county and five $100,000 college scholarships for children ages 12...

Pacific Northwest Bakes in Record-Setting Heat Wave Neil Vigdor © Mark Graves/The Oregonian, via Associated Press Cooling off at the Salmon Street Springs fountain in Portland, Ore., on Sunday. The temperature reached 112 degrees, setting a record. A heat dome has enveloped the Pacific Northwest, driving temperatures to extreme levels — with temperatures well above 100 degrees — and creating dangerous conditions in a part of the country unaccustomed to oppressive summer weather or air-conditioning. © Maranie Staab/Reuters Temperatures hovered above 100 degrees Fahren...

Oregon heat wave: Portland records all-time high temperature of 112, shattering record set Saturday OregonLive.com 2 hrs ago Kristi Turnquist, oregonlive.com © Dave Killen/The Oregonian People cool off at the Sandy River Delta during a record-setting heat wave on June 26, 2021. Portland again reached a new record temperature late Sunday afternoon, hitting 112 degrees and breaking the previous records set earlier Sunday and Saturday, the National Weather Service announced on Twitter. The high temperature for Portland International Airport reached 108 degrees Saturday, sur...

Alene, a woman experiencing homelessness who uses crutches to get around, walked for more than an hour Saturday morning to get to a North Portland cooling center. She got there early, about 11 a.m., but temperatures were already creeping toward 90 degrees. The cooling center, which is open 24 hours a day, was a welcome respite from the heat. “It’s great that it’s here because it’s hot and I ...

Nearly two dozen police conduct and accountability bills passed this year but they represent only the beginning in the minds of reformers. The bills were about “laying the groundwork to reimagine public safety,” said Rep. Janelle Bynum, D-Happy Valley, Oregon’s lone Black woman lawmaker and the chair of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee On Equitable Policing. Lawmakers were spurred ...