Ashland Chronicle Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced federal funding is heading to the cities of Tangent, Milwaukie, and Ashland to develop and update comprehensive road and street safety plans, while investments for Klamath Falls will fund the construction of safety improvements at intersections in the
Tillamook Headlight Herald If it feels like summers are getting longer and hotter, it’s not your imagination. This past July 21 was the hottest day ever recorded in human history, following the hottest thirteen-straight months scientists have ever seen. Extreme heat is melting the snowpack in the Cascades, scorching lands
KCBY Oregon is getting a boost to the state’s literacy programs – an $11.5 million boost. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced the funding Friday morning, saying the money will help improve literacy rates among children from kindergarten through high school. The money is earmarked primarily for children whose
Baker City Herald Oregon’s U.S. senators, Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, announced Friday, Sept. 6, that $16.1 million in federal aid is coming to Baker and Union counties to support communities located near the Boardman-to-Hemingway power transmission line. The money, from the Inflation Reduction Act, will support job training programs,
Portland Business Journal One of the city’s main north-south corridors will get a cool $9.6 million for safety improvements. The U.S. Department of Transportation gave the city of Portland the money to alleviate issues in the “high-crash corridor” along a seven-mile stretch of 82nd Avenue, which runs through both Northeast and Southeast
Central Oregonian U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley are urging the Department of the Interior to support Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek’s request for emergency authorizations to allow flexibility in grazing schedules and use alternative grazing areas in response to the current wildfire disaster in Oregon. “The grazing flexibility requested
Central Oregon Daily A community radio station owned and operated by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs is getting a financial infusion from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA is granting $158,749 to KWSO-FM. This will be used to upgrade the station’s broadcast transmissions and warning systems, which are needed
Oregon Capital Chronicle The wildfires this season have scorched a record 1.5 million acres, forcing ranchers to move their cattle as flames approached while also fighting fires to save their homes This summer’s historic wildfires in Oregon have taken a toll on ranchers and their more than a million cows and
Herald and News Oregon’s U.S. senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced this week the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding Klamath Community College and Linn-Benton Community College a combined total of $265,829 to grow their commercial driver’s license (CDL) programs. A CDL is needed for careers operating large
Statesman Journal Oregon’s Hewlett-Packard campus in Corvallis will receive $50 million from the federal government under the CHIPS and Science Act. Gov. Tina Kotek, U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley, U.S Reps. Suzanne Bonamici, Val Hoyle, Oregon State University President Jayathi Murthy and White House CHIPS Implementation Coordinator Ryan Harper
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