Southern Oregon University has about a month to create a plan ensuring its long-term survival.

Southern Oregon University will create its own plan for the institution’s long-term survival.

Seattle officials and business owners are coordinating to better identify signs of human trafficking and prevent it ahead of the World Cup.

Seattle will be swamped with people when the World Cup comes next month. Officials say that’s ripe conditions for human trafficking and they are working to prevent that from happening.

Seattle Children's hospital and a group of residents in Laurelhurst say they're open to revisiting a decades old agreement that restricts helicopter flights to the hospital.

Oregon’s free community college program would end under a legislative proposal being considered by the state’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission.

Oregon’s WNBA team officially opens their first season today [[Saturday 5/9]], against the Chicago Sky at the Moda Center. As Kyra [[KYE ruh]] Buckley reports, it marks the return of professional women’s basketball after 24 years.

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Residents of a retirement mobile home park in West Eugene are banding together to buy their own community after it was put up for sale by its out of state owners.

KLCC’s Rebecca Hansen-White reports.

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Springfield School District leaders had their first chance to weigh in on next school year’s budget yesterday [Thursday/recently].

KLCC's Rebecca Hansen-White reports.

The state of Washington is seeing a faster than expected decline in its already low snow levels.

After record heat in May, the state’s snowpack is now at 27 percent of normal, down from 50 percent a month ago.

Caroline Mellor [mel-LOHR] is the statewide drought lead for the Department of Ecology.