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Petition comes weeks after young entangled humpback whale found stranded near Yachats.

California’s minimum wage is adjusted every year for inflation. Some cities have a higher wage floor and unions are advocating increases for specific industries.

Senior Californians in rural communities are dying by suicide at troubling rates—struggling with pain, cut off from doctors and mental health care, with guns at hand. Access to care and safety planning would help, experts say.

An Oregon company is blaming President Donald Trump’s signature budget bill for more than 100 layoff notices it sent to staff two days before Christmas.

A coalition of 19 states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, its secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and its inspector general over a declaration that could complicate access to gender-affirming care for young people.

California State University last year launched a pilot program to attract more students to the university system and to steer some to campuses that have been struggling with enrollment declines.

The Trump administration plans to bail out U.S. commodity farmers caught in the president’s ongoing trade disputes.

Southern Oregon University is building a retirement facility on campus. Students and professors are working to figure out how to create spaces to bring college students and older learners together.

But a leader of the state’s top hospital industry group called the research “disconnected from reality and tone deaf.”

Around 800,000 rideshare drivers in California will formally have the right to unionize starting Jan. 1 under Assembly Bill 1340, which Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law this fall.

The Trump administration has sent five times more people at least 1,000 miles compared to the last year of former president Joe Biden’s term.

Oregon’s first-in-the-nation retirement system is doing well. But people keep taking savings out before retirement.