The Ashland School District shut down one of its buildings Thursday after a routine fire inspection.

The Ashland School District closed one of its buildings Thursday after a routine fire inspection revealed a bulge in a wall.

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4th Congressional District Representative Val Hoyle is facing another challenger on the left: Corvallis resident Melissa Bird.

KLCC’s Rebecca Hansen-White reports.

[FEATURE: Recovering from the Retreat Fire, Part 2 082225CF_WildfireRecovery_Feature_part2.wav 3:42 8/22/25 Courtney Flatt/JD]

HOST LEDE: There are spots where a wildfire wreaked havoc outside of Yakima last year. But that’s only part of what happened. Across the road from severely burned hillsides, the land tells a different story. [In part two of a series on fire recovery, N-W-P-B’s senior correspondent Courtney Flatt brings us the good side of 20-24’s Retreat Fire.] [SOQ 3:42]

Josephine County Commissioners approved a new lease with the community library in Grants Pass. But, Jefferson Public Radio's Roman Battaglia (buh-TALLY-uh) reports last minute changes created some problems for the library.

The Josephine Community Library continues to face an uncertain future after county commissioners made changes to a negotiated lease at the last minute.

Juan Heredia [hur-re-dia] is a volunteer rescue diver with a gift for finding victims. For the last year, he’s shown up at stretches of water across California to Oregon. As Jefferson Public Radio's Justin Higginbottom reports, the problem is… not everyone wants his help.

The National Weather Service has issued an ‘extreme heat warning’ for most of western Oregon and Southwest Washington.

OPB’s Riley Martinez has more on what that means for the Hood to Coast relay tomorrow ((FRI)).

White House Border Czar Tom Homan visited Portland this week/Wednesday as part of a larger visit to the West Coast. As Oregon Public Broadcasting's Conrad Wilson reports, Homan confirmed visits to several sanctuary cities that limit their cooperation with federal immigration agents.

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The University of Washington’s Center for Human Rights is warning that federal immigration action has crossed a new boundary, breaking international humanitarian law. KUOW’s Gustavo Sagrero has more.