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Start-ups take rural news online

The pullback of larger newspapers and shutdown of smaller ones, resulting in Oregon’s small town “new deserts,” caused…

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Aspen Springs highlights mental health crisis in Eastern Oregon

When Aspen Springs Psychiatric Hospital opened in Hermiston last fall, it was hailed as a sorely-needed addition to…

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Warm Springs seeks end to water woes

On a gravel road in the Dry Creek neighborhood of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Dorothy Thurby visits…

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Wild Rivers Coast Alliance benefits local organizations

BANDON ─ Since its inception in 2012, the Wild Rivers Coast Alliance has been supporting the South Coast’s…

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Striving for Solutions — rural treatment centers combat opioid crisis

When Amber Latham moved to Pendleton as program director for the new branch of Oregon Recovery and Treatment…

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Reframing roadkill: Avoiding waste

Madison Morgan’s pickup truck was busted up, but at least she got some fresh venison out of the…

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Conflagration illustrates steps to fighting wildfires

While an extreme example, the Holiday Farm Fire illustrates what steps are required to bring a conflagration under…

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What we need now: Bridges, ladders, imagination

After a devastating year of COVID, of protests, of the election, what I may be the most tired…

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Oregon Tech teams up with tribes to save endangered fish

Oregon Institute of Technology is coordinating with the Klamath Tribes to try to save endangered Lost River and…

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One man’s journey to reach new heights

Bryan Harper is a fifth-generation farmer, vice chairman of the Oregon Board of Agriculture and former president of…