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Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 23 March 2020

A jar of hand sanitizer is shown taped to the door handle of a coffee shop in downtown Portland, Ore., Monday, March 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

The move came after Gov. Kate Brown held a confusing press conference on Friday - on the eve of what would have been spring break - to urge people to stay home, but stopped short of issuing an executive order

Details: Written by The Skanner News from wire reports; Published: 21 March 2020

Coronavirus updates: Italy has worst day yet and Oregon warns we must all keep our distance to save lives

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 20 March 2020

The Governor said during a media briefing that she was not at this time enacting more stringent social distancing requirements like those imposed by California and New York this week

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 20 March 2020

Seattle firefighters and police officers with symptoms of COVID-19 can now receive testing at a designated City location in South Seattle

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 19 March 2020

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DLSNC is building the first new Catholic high school campus in Portland in more than 50 years. The faith-based, college-preparatory high school for underserved students helps those most in need to succeed

Details: Written by Saundra Sorenson; Published: 19 March 2020

Rep. Janelle Bynum (D-Clackamas) introduced House Bill 4107 to fight two sources of what she called backdoor discrimination.

House Bill 4107 would prohibit discrimination based on hairstyle and hair texture, and would largely prohibit businesses from being “cashless”

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 19 March 2020

Kh'Merrion 14, gets some food to go from volunteer Nikkita Oliver at the Feed the Beach, free lunch table March 13th at Rainier Beach Community Center Plaza. (photo by Susan Fried)

Hot lunches are served on Tuesdays and Thursdays to students who attend school in the Rainier Beach Community until the schools re-open again

Details: Written by GILLIAN FLACCUS and ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press; Published: 17 March 2020

A sign indicating that only carry-out or delivery options are available hangs in the window of a closed Chipotle restaurant in Portland, Ore., Monday, March 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

The most vulnerable homeless residents given vouchers for hotel and motel rooms, and evictions suspended for those affected by the coronavirus

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 17 March 2020

New measures include social distancing, hospital capacity increase, and a new order to prevent price gouging

Details: Written by By LAURAN NEERGAARD and CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writers; Published: 16 March 2020

The first vaccine shot tested for coronavirus is administered in Seattle(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Monday scientists at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute in Seattle begin an anxiously awaited first-stage study of a potential COVID-19 vaccine developed in record time