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As It Was-Packers Keep Rogue River Canyon Dwellers Supplied

Residents and miners in the Rogue River Canyon in the early 1900s, couldn’t have survived without men like John Billings.Billings was a packer who took…

Betsy Johnson talks to supporters at a pep rally in St. Helens, Ore., on June 14, 2022. As an unaffiliated candidate for governor, Johnson is hoping to collect enough signatures to make the November ballot.

In a push to make Oregon's November ballot, Betsy Johnson sizes up her audience

The former Democratic state senator has been barnstorming the state in her nonaffiliated bid for Oregon governor — and has a sales pitch for every crowd.

The most distant galaxy ever discovered, GN-z11, is shown within a Hubble Space Telescope deep sky survey and highlighted in the inset. This galaxy existed only 400 million years after the Big Bang.

This new space telescope should show us what the universe looked like as a baby

The upcoming launch of NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope should let astronomers see what some of the universe's first stars and galaxies looked like soon after the Big Bang.

Wed | New Year's Day Specials

Welcome to 2020! New Year's Day gives us a chance to look both forward and backward at once. We revisit some Exchange segments from the past. At 8: Vivek…

A line of petrochemical facilities in St. Charles Parish, La., in 2018. Many people who live near industrial sites, and who are exposed to dangerous pollution, fear that the Inflation Reduction Act will deepen existing environmental inequalities.

The spending bill will cut emissions, but marginalized groups feel they were sold out

The Inflation Reduction Act is the biggest ever investment to tackle climate change. But there are signs that it could reinforce existing environmental inequalities.

Mariama Kuyateh, 30, holds up a picture of her son Musa, whose death from acute kidney failure on Oct. 10 was linked to contaminated cough syrup imported to Gambia, where they live, from India. The World Health Organization issued an alert about the medication.

Contaminated cough syrup from India linked to 70 child deaths. It's happened before

The World Health Organization has issued an alert about the deaths in the West African nation of Gambia. For context, we speak to the authors of The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India.

As It Was-Medford, Ore., Newspaper Reflects on Prohibition

On Jan. 5, 1919, the Medford Mail-Tribune published a reflective piece after the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to allow enforcement of the 18th Amendment,…

As It Was: Lakeview Reopens Art-Deco Theater built in 1940

During the golden age of Hollywood, moving picture theaters were the social center of small towns. In 1940, Merle Alger helped construct an art-deco…

The new treatment is categorized as immunotherapy.

This experimental drug could change the field of cancer research

A small trial using the drug dostarlimab yielded an unprecedented success rate in eliminating tumors.

Emerging From Pandemic: The Birth Of 'Communities Are Stronger Together'

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