Local Voices

Adventist Health Portland expands their Family Birth Place adding midwifes. Portland updates Barbie's Village on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Day. Multnomah County's DA announces a new place to stop retail and autotheft.

Kaiser Permanente launches a program to care for patients at home after a hospital procedure. The changing stages of COVID-19. SOLVE needs volunteers. Big plans for the Hillsboro Hops.

OHSU is conducting research on a new alzheimer's drug called lecanemab. The Tillamook County Creamery Association is working to reduce greenhouse has emissions to zero by 2050. Oregon Congressman earl Blumenauer has worked toward marijuana reform during his entire political career. He says they're getting very close to achieving their goals.

Governor Tina Kotek details how funding will be distributed for Oregon's Homelessness State of Emergency. Portland City Council honors Parkinson's Awareness Month and the Transgender Day of Visibility.

Ron Post discusses creation of Northwest Medical Teams, now Medical Teams International. Teachers face a growing number of struggles in the classroom. The first travelers to North America.

Oregon's rent increase cap didn't protect renters from the sky high inflation, now lawmakers are considering a new law to restrict increases even more. Oregon lawmakers are also designing a bill to repeal Ballot Measure 114 and replace it with a tougher law. Bend Mayor Melanie Kebler discusses changes in her city.

Labor trafficking has become a major problem in Oregon and lawmakers are looking at solutions. Oregon Olympian Kara Goucher is detailing her time on Nike's Elite Running Team in her new book.

Members of Team Rubicon have traveled, again, to Otis where residents still be help recovering from the 2020 Echo Mountain Wildfire. Rank choice voting would come to Oregon under a bill in the legislature.

A new, dangerous drug has health officials worried about the impact on hospitals, because of what it does to drug users. Colorectal cancer rates are rising in people younger than 55 and they're being urged to get screened. E-mailing your doctor is convenient, but can also add to your bill.

COVID-19 cases are declining, what's next? Can Portland get a WNBA team? Oregon's Governor asks lawmakers to fund her homelessness plan. The Oregon Legislature considers a bill to set nurse staffing ratios.