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St. Helens introduced Steve Webb, former superintendent of Vancouver Public Schools, as the new district leader.

Breaking down how to research your area's flood risk, ways to minimize flood risk, steps to take if your home floods and more.

The pharmaceutical companies behind Ozempic, Wegovy and other weight-loss meds push to prevent compounding pharmacies from making cheaper copies. They argue they can keep up with demand on their own.

The New Seasons Labor Union is picketing for better pay and benefits on one of the nation’s busiest food shopping days of the year

The settlement also mandates policy reforms and demands an independent audit in the near future

How a one-in-a-million seedling with a murky past and a trio of names has captured the attention of Northwest cider makers.

The department wants to encourage people to visit the natural beauty Oregon has to offer the day after Thanksgiving

Think Out Loud was joined by culinary historian, food writer and contributor to OPB’s Superabundant Heather Arndt Anderson to offer some tips and tricks and to answer listener questions about cooking for Thanksgiving.

When the salmon are running up the Columbia River, Native people are there with them. They live, eat and sleep at the river. Their children grow up at the river. They catch salmon for subsistence, for ceremonies and for their living. This is the life of the Wy-Kan-Ush-Pum, the Salmon People. It is a life Columbia River tribal people have lived for generations and have fought for decades to protect. Over the last century and a half, they have watched as forces eroded their access to salmon. Treaties removed them from their traditional fishing areas; dams massively reduced the numbers of salmon that swam in the waters; environmental contamination further poisoned the well. And now, as climate change threatens the salmon throughout its life, the stakes of that fight are existential.

With the passage of a key election deadline, Democrat Lesly Munoz has prevailed over Republican state Rep. Tracy Cramer