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State regulators approve an average 1.5% increase in rates for the individual and small-group commercial markets.

Local legislators say Gov. Kate Brown's mandates go too far, health workers and public employees to choose between a personal medical decision and their jobs.

Unlike earlier COVID-19 waves, doctors say patients are in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s and this wave is more severe than prior surges.

With the policy, Portland will become the latest major city requiring public workers to be vaccinated.

His girlfriend died of an overdose in 2016 from oxycodone pills she obtained using one of his illegal prescriptions.