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Courtesy of anewscafe.com/A local political drama is playing out in Shasta County ahead of a Feb. 1 recall election. Just one member of the county board of supervisors faces removal. But it’s emblematic of the way frustrations over pandemic mandates have pinned targets on local elected officials. -
Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMattersAbout 11,500 long-term care center workers are now sick with COVID. “It’s been like one coworker after another, after another, everyone getting sick,” one nursing assistant said.
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The presence of eleven skiers, skaters and sliders with ties to the Northwest should add intrigue to the 2022 Beijing Olympics, although the upcoming sports spectacle beset with extreme COVID precautions, a diplomatic boycott and scarce snowfall hardly needs more drama. -
We asked four public health experts all your pressing questions about how to avoid catching omicron on campus.
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With 7 million Californians infected, how risky is it to work? When is it safe for omicron-infected workers to return?
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In Blodgett Forest, west of Lake Tahoe, researchers grapple with the state’s forest-management history while investigating what it means to have a healthy one.
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Southern Oregon’s Lake Abert is a stopover for tens of thousands of migratory birds that use it to rest and fatten up on bugs and brine shrimp. But in 2021 it dried up. JPR’s Erik Neumann spoke with Rob Davis, an investigative reporter at the Oregonian, about what happened to Lake Abert last year.
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The omicron variant of COVID-19 has hit California’s teacher workforce so hard that many schools are weighing closure and in some cases forced to dip into emergency days. The quality of instruction is suffering, but some teachers say they still prefer this to remote instruction.
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California is asking some 1.4 million unemployment recipients to prove their eligibility months after receiving aid as part of a fraud recovery campaign. But some people say they’re caught in the Employment Development Department’s dragnet because they don’t have the documents to be cleared. Now, some risk having to pay back more than $30,000 — or face collection.
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Talent, Ore., is trying to prevent an exodus of residents after recent wildfires. The city is providing temporary trailers and other services to keep families from abandoning the small town.
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Updated COVID workplace rules go into effect January 14. Several of the changes increase protections for vaccinated workers.
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Interview with Scott Oviatt, the Supervisory Hydrologist at the NRCS Portland office, about the 2022 snowpack in our region.
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We talk with Oregon's new Taxpayer Advocate about new policies to simplify tax time process.
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Nationwide, only 3% of fast-food workers belong to unions.
