We wrap up the week's Northwest news with OPB's Anna Griffin. We also hear from Bend Bulletin reporter Taylor Bayly about her reporting on student discipline reform efforts in Bend and throughout the state of Oregon.

Summer is a time for festivals – and celebrating the bounty of the Pacific Northwest. And one of the most fragrant celebrations takes place in Washington County: the North Plains Elephant Garlic Festival.

Radical Abundance is a new Southeast Portland thrift shop that opened July 23rd. Like many other thrift shops, volunteers take clothing donations, resell them at a low price, and use the proceeds for charitable causes. Their cause? Helping trans* and non-binary folks afford gender-affirming medical care.

There’s a growing push in Oregon to decriminalize consensual sex work – in other words, to stop charging people who engage in prostitution with crimes. But recently, it’s gotten some push back from perhaps the most influential place: The governor’s office. Earlier this month, Governor Tina Kotek quietly vetoed two attempts to use public money to study the idea.

This week’s oppressive and deadly heat wave is finally beginning to wind down in some parts of Oregon. But although some relief from the extreme heat is coming soon, climate scientists predict heat waves could happen more frequently in the Pacific Northwest.

In Central Oregon, roughly a quarter of a million people float the Deschutes River through Bend each summer, and many of them lose things along the way. But, thanks to a local diving group, some lost items are finding their way home.

Bend police data paints a complicated picture around encampment clearings

This small town in Oregon embraces green energy after fossil fuel disaster

The Oregon state agency charged with monitoring discrimination in workplaces across the state was itself a hostile work environment for the Black woman who was hired to head the civil rights division of the Oregon Bureau of Labor & Industries.

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