Oregon will receive $22,972,499 in federal financial help in combating the opioid crisis. The grant funding is from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to combat the opioid crisis, according to Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden. In 2021, Oregon overdose deaths increased 41%, compared to
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Some of downtown Portland’s public street plazas and outdoor dining areas that were introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to become permanent. The Portland Bureau of Transportation announced Friday that it was awarded $1.2 million from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to help
Oregon will receive $6.8 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding for wildfire prevention projects on 49,039 acres of land across the state. The additional funding is intended to help complete fuels treatments on nearly 2 million acres nationwide this fiscal year, a substantial increase over the last year’s fiscal year,
Whether it was floods, tainted drinking water or a severe hailstorm, the Oregon Legislature’s Emergency Board recently approved millions of dollars to address the Eastern Oregon environmental crises of months past. A joint body of House and Senate members who meet between legislative sessions to approve emergency funding, the Emergency
LA GRANDE — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration on Tuesday, Sept. 27, announced it is awarding a $585,534 grant to La Grande’s Liberty Theatre Foundation to support the recovery of the local tourism sector through the revitalization of a historic La Grande landmark. This project continues the
U.S. Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden on Tuesday announced nearly $23 million in grants to the Oregon Health Authority and Tribes based in the state to combat the opioid crisis. “I’ve heard heart-wrenching stories from Oregonians who have lost loved ones after a prescription for an injury or treatment
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $1.4 million in grant funding to Umatilla, Oregon to boost local business growth and opportunity. The funding comes from the American Rescue Plan and the EDA’s Coal Communities Commitment, which focuses on helping coal communities recover from the pandemic. Local businesses will
A $10.26 million federal grant to Oregon Telephone Corporation, and the same amount in a federal loan, will help the company, based in Mount Vernon, expand high-speed internet to parts of southern Baker County and to parts of Grant and Malheur counties. Oregon’s U.S. senators, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley,
The cities of Portland and Albany, and the Scappoose Rural Fire District, will receive nearly $4 million in federal grant money to support local firefighting. U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced Monday that Portland and Albany both secured grants from the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response
Attorneys with the U.S. Department of Justice told a federal magistrate on Thursday that conditions inside the troubled Federal Bureau of Prisons complex in Sheridan, Oregon, had improved. As recently as this summer, there was a hunger strike at the detention facility in protest of the conditions and reports of out-of-state guards allegedly
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