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Baker City, Oregon. | KEN LUND, CC BY-SA 2.0

Baker City hospital to close only maternity ward for miles

Saint Alphonsus Medical Center-Baker City will close its maternity ward in an increasingly common cost-saving measure for rural hospitals

Jun 29, 2023

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Nurses and other health care workers along with their supporters took to the picket lines outside Providence Portland Medical Center on Monday, June 19 as the state’s largest nurses union called a five-day strike. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

The Providence nurse strike has ended, but the fight over health care working conditions roars on

Jun 24, 2023

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Oregon Capitol in Salem. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon reproductive rights and gender-affirming care bill heads to governor’s desk

Lawmakers gave final approval on Wednesday to House Bill 2002, which was at the heart of the state’s longest legislative walkout

Jun 22, 2023

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The Capitol Building in Salem, Ore., on March 21, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon Democrats consider watering down abortion, gun bills in order to get Senate Republicans to return

After nearly 10 hours of negotiations over the weekend, top lawmakers arrived at a tentative framework for rescuing the 2023 session. Both sides stress a deal hasn’t been made.

Jun 13, 2023

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MARCELO IKEDA TCHELÃO/PIXABAY

Oregon governor tables liquor fee increase

The increase was intended to curb drinking and would have funded addiction treatment

Jun 13, 2023

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Providence nurses picket in Seaside, Oregon on April 27, 2023. | COURTESY OREGON NURSES ASSOCIATION

Providence nurses and clinicians in Portland and Seaside are latest to move toward strike

Nurses and clinicians at three Providence facilities announced that they plan to move forward with a strike if they can’t reach an agreement with management over caseloads and pay

Jun 6, 2023

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St. Charles Medical Center in Bend. | KRISTIAN FODEN-VENCIL/OPB

St. Charles nurses in Bend move forward with strike plan

Bargaining sessions are scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday. If those fail, a strike would start June 12.

Jun 2, 2023

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Planned Parenthood clinic in Portland, Ore. | COURTESY PLANNED PARENTHOOD

Report: Threats against abortion providers spike, especially in states like Oregon, Washington

Providers in those two states reported a total of 1,687 incidents of picketing outside their clinics according to data from the National Abortion Federation

May 30, 2023

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Some of the drugs, guns and cash confiscated by law enforcement in Oregon and Western Washington in a single month, April 2023. Drugs, especially fentanyl, are coming into the state in unprecedented quantities. Photos provided from Vancouver Police Department, U.S. Department of Justice, Deschutes County Sheriff's Office and Oregon State Police. | KRISTYNA WENTZ-GRAFF/OPB

‘It’s crazy out there’: The reasons behind Oregon’s deepening drug crisis

Fueled by fentanyl, the number of overdose deaths in Oregon has soared since 2019. And while the surge in overdoses is part of a national problem, the state’s underfunded treatment system is struggling to provide local solutions.

May 30, 2023

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St. Charles Health System in Bend. | COURTESY OF ST. CHARLES HEALTH

Nurses at St. Charles Hospital in Bend vote to authorize strike

Negotiations between union, hospital are set to take place this week

May 22, 2023