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08-08-2024 4:12 am • PDX and SEA Weather
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City councilors will be district-specific, and chosen through ranked-choice voting, as Portland transitions to a voter-approved revamp of local government.
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(National Transportation Safety Board via AP, File)
The National Transportation Safety Board are holding a two-day hearing into the blowout of a panel from the side of a Boeing 737 Max airliner. The board is calling it a fact-finding hearing. The NTSB will not vote on a probable cause for the accident. That step probably won't happen for another year or longer after more investigation.
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Oregon AG attending an Olympic soccer game in addition to the sponsored events, paid for those tickets and a few days in France with her husband with her personal funds.
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Rep.-elect Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Congressional primary races in Washington state are attracting outsized attention. Voters in the 4th District will decide on one next week that pits one of the last U.S. House Republicans left who voted to impeach Donald Trump against two conservative candidates whose platforms are in lock-step with the presidential nominee.
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Win With Black Women founder Jotaka Eaddy
Whether you want to stump for Harris or support BIPOC candidates in battleground states, work can be done door-to-door or from the comfort of your living room.
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Jordan Chiles (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
“The Redemption Tour” ended in a familiar spot for Simone Biles: atop the Olympic podium. With Biles at her show-stopping best, the Americans’ total of 171.296 was well clear of Italy and Brazil and the exclamation point of a yearlong run in which Biles has cemented her legacy as the greatest ever in her sport and among the best in the history of the Olympics.
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Multiple communities in Idaho have been evacuated after lightning strikes sparked fast-moving wildfires. As that and other blazes scorch the Pacific Northwest, authorities say California's largest wildfire is zero-percent contained after destroying 134 structures and threatening 4,200 more. A sheriff says it was started by a man who pushed a burning car into a gully. Officials say they have arrested a 42-year-old man who will be arraigned Monday.
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Word is Bond ambassadors gather in Assin Manso, known as the slave river, where millions of Africans crossed before being forced onto slave ships.
“Transformative” trip lets young travelers visit painful slave history, celebrate heritage.
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(Oregon Department of Transportation via AP)
Firefighters in the West are scrambling as wildfires threaten communities in Oregon, California and Washington. A stretch of Interstate 84 connecting Oregon and Idaho in the area of one of the fires was closed indefinitely Tuesday. New lightning-sparked wildfires in the Sierra near the California-Nevada border forced the evacuation of a recreation area, closed a state highway and were threatening structures Tuesday.
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
Voters in Washington state will decide this fall whether to keep one of the country's more aggressive laws aimed at stemming carbon pollution. The repeal vote imperils the most significant climate policy passed during outgoing Gov. Jay Inslee's three terms, and Inslee — who made climate action a centerpiece of his short-lived presidential campaign in the 2020 cycle — is fighting hard against it.
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