Warm Springs radio station KWSO gets nearly $160,000 infusion from FEMA
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 leaders call on U.S. government for help, flexibility to help ranchers
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
Klamath Community College receives grant to aid veteran students in obtaining commercial driver’s licenses, safety training
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
Merkley talks fire costs
Before fielding questions from an audience of about 50 during his town hall Saturday at Haines Elementary School, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., talked about his efforts to change how the country pays to fight wildfires. Merkley said the U.S. Forest Service has had to halt other projects, including work
Senators Wyden, Merkley meet with heath officials to discuss Zika virus
Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley met with officials from OHSU and the Oregon Health Authority Friday to discuss how to fight the Zika virus outbreak. Senator Wyden said it is highly unlikely the mosquitoes that carry Zika will make it north to Oregon, but there is still a lot of
Jeff Merkley Is Trying to Save America’s Honeybees
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) speaks for the bees. Merkley on Thursday released a draft of a bill he’s sponsoring that would protect honeybees and other creatures that transfer pollen between flowers. The Pollinator Recovery Act of 2016 seeks to protect birds, bats, Monarch butterflies, and most of all honeybees
Merkley: Rural co-ops gain $52 million for energy efficiency loans
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., announced Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will make $52 million in loans available to rural electric co-ops through the Rural Energy Savings Program. RESP is a program designed by Merkley to allow rural electric co-ops to offer their customers low-interest loans from USDA to
Merkley, Wyden cheer key Oregon wins in appropriations bill
Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced Thursday the Senate Appropriations Committee, on which Merkley sits, passed an Interior Appropriations bill including key provisions to keep Oregon communities safe with clean drinking water and to prepare for the possibility of a large-scale Cascadia earthquake. “This legislation will help fund
More money for safety, sanitation needed at Columbia River tribal sites, says federal bill
A new bill in the U.S. Senate would create cleaner, safer fishing sites for tribal fishing crews on the Columbia River. U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, carved out space in the U.S. Department of Interior appropriations bill to fund more sanitation and law enforcement services for the 31 fishing camps
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