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Junction City leaders will hold off on making a decision on automatic license plate readers until the city’s next budget cycle in the spring.

People across Oregon are facing a punishing combination of high costs: housing, healthcare, gas and groceries. Now the sweeping changes to the federal food assistance program known as SNAP are starting to hit the state. OPB’s Bryce Dole reports.

This week the Hermiston City Council approved a twenty-six million dollar plan to get rid of forever chemicals that have been found in the Eastern Oregon city’s water system.

The Three Queens Fire continues to grow, with more than 350 firefighters on the ground in a popular outdoor recreation area Kittitas County.

A judge ordered restrictions for parts of the Oregon Dunes this week because of potential harms to a threatened weasel-like carnivore. Jefferson Public Radio's Roman Battaglia (buh-TALLY-uh) reports.

A group that’s been working for years to help address the opioid epidemic in Pierce County is being quietly shut down.

A weekly newspaper covering Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell and Pleasant Hill has published its final paper.

KLCC’s Zac Ziegler reports:

[CC] Sockeye ‘boogie’ up the Yakima River, now that the Bateman Island Causeway is gone

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Sockeye numbers are coming in stronger for the Yakima River. That’s months after construction crews in the Tri-Cities removed a land-bridge. It caused the mouth of the river to stagnate.

[WRAP] Sockeye ‘boogie’ up the Yakima River now that the Bateman Island Causeway is gone

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LEDE: More sockeye are swimming up the lower Yakima River. That’s after heavy machinery removed a landbridge that blocked the river’s flow. [N-W-P-B’s senior environmental correspondent Courtney Flatt has the story.]

[Tariffs present a mixed picture for Oregon seafood industry

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Oregon is trying to make it easier for one of the state’s biggest seafood products to reach British consumers.