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OPB’s First Look: Women’s sports could be an economic win for Portland

The continued success of the Portland Thorns and growing excitement around the city’s future WNBA team, the Portland Fire, are converging at a moment when local and state leaders are searching for an ...
Green Bay Packers

Packers vs. Broncos | How to watch, stream & listen | Week 15

Packers.com will stream the team's official radio broadcast worldwide to desktop users. The Packers mobile app will also stream the radio broadcast within the Packers' home market, per NFL broadcast ...
The New York Times

Arkansas Public Television Drops PBS

The loss of federal funding forced a difficult decision, the executive director of Arkansas TV said: Cut PBS, or go off the air entirely. By Benjamin Mullin Arkansas PBS on Thursday severed ties with ...
Statesman Journal

When is winter break for public schools and universities in Oregon?

With Christmas just around the corner, Oregon families may be counting down the days until winter break, a time when kids and college students get an extended break from school to celebrate the ...
Oregonian

After volatile public meeting, Portland Public School Board offers a joint mea culpa

Members of the Portland School Board have offered a rare public apology after an extremely contentious school board meeting last week involving a $61 million construction management contract drew an ...
Smithsonian Magazine

When a Humpback Whale Got Stranded in Oregon, a Native Community Turned the Tragedy Into a Revival of a Traditional Practice

Experts spent two days trying to save the whale, which weighed roughly 20,000 pounds. West Coast Marine Mammal Stranding Network For the first time in generations, an Indigenous tribe in Oregon has ...
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OPB’s First Look: Oregon’s economy takes center stage at annual leadership summit

Economic and political leaders meet today for the annual Oregon Leadership Summit. They have their work cut out for them. More Oregonians are out of work and some fear going to work, or school, with ...
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OPB’s First Look: Coast Guard helicopter returns to Newport, college admissions essays change

If you noticed yesterday’s First Look got off to an unusual start, you weren’t alone. We accidentally left in some boilerplate text that we normally take out ...
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‘OPB Politics Now’: Homelessness in Portland and taxes in Oregon take center stage

On the latest livestream episode of “OPB Politics Now,” reporters Dirk VanderHart and Alex Zielinski talk about two of the biggest topics in Oregon politics — the state’s handling of the overall ...
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OPB’s First Look: Oregon plans to add hundreds of public fast-charging ports for electric vehicles next year

Hitting the road in some parts of Oregon in an electric vehicle could be a little less challenging by the end of next year. The Oregon Department of Transportation plans to use a second round of ...
Statesman Journal

Oregon officials urge public to avoid sick birds as avian flu spreads

Oregon officials said people should avoid contact with birds that seem sick or are dead to avoid spreading a highly contagious strain of bird flu. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said the ...
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OPB’s First Look: Oregon stands to lose nearly $18M in counterrorism grants

After facing months of legal back and forth with the federal administration, Oregon could lose nearly $18 million worth of terrorism prevention and emergency funding. Now, after attaching new strings ...