(Salem, OR) -- Oregon's unemployment rate has reached the highest level since September 2021. In January, the unemployment rate was four-point-four percent. The state added 24-hundred jobs. The largest gains were in professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, and retail trade. Manufacturing lost 22-hundred jobs. Health care lost 13-hundred jobs, but that was mainly due to the Providence nurses strike. Oregon's private sector added over 12-thousand jobs between January 2024 and January 2025.
(Salem, OR) -- Oregon Governor Tina Kotek supports two bills that will increase funding for schools and accountability for results. Kotek wants the Legislature to spend eleven-point-three-billion-dollars on schools. She's also calling for tougher accountability standards for schools, so they know faster when they need to make improvements. Schools would also have to accept help if they don't meet the benchmarks.
(Portland, OR) -- A woman was found guilty last week by a Multnomah County jury of starving and withholding medical attention from a child. Thirty-eight-year-old Jamie Strahm dated the child's father and took care of the boy for several years. He suffered an unexplained brain injury and was required to use a feeding tube. Over four years the boy lost ten percent of his body weight. At a hospital, the boy started eating by mouth and gained ten pounds over a month. Strahm will be sentenced later this month.
(Vancouver, WA) -- No serious injuries are reported after a car crashed into a Vancouver business Tuesday afternoon. The Vancouver Fire Department says the crash happened at Northeast Minnehaha Street and St. Johns Road. The driver of the car got out on their own. No one was inside of the building when the crash happened. Firefighters inspected the building and found it was safe. Vancouver Police are investigating the crash.
(Washington, D.C.) -- The Smith River National Recreation Area in northern California would be expanded into southern Oregon under a bill proposed by Oregon's and California's U.S. Senators. 58-thousand acres would be added to the recreation area. It was created in 1990 by Congress, but stopped at the Oregon border. Republican state representatives from southern Oregon support the legislation.
(Roseburg, OR) -- A 55-year-old Douglas County man is accused of killing his 11-year-old daughter in a crash that also injured two others. Detectives believe Ian Fleming was impaired by drugs and alcohol when he crashed a pickup with three girls inside, Monday afternoon, near Glendale. All three were thrown from the truck when it rolled several times. He borrowed another vehicle to get his daughter to an ambulance station, but authorities say he then took off. Fleming was later arrested and charged with manslaughter.
(Portland, OR) -- The Oregon Zoo is moving to spring hours and offering discounted tickets this week. Adult tickets are 13 dollars through March 7th. The zoo is now open from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tickets need to be purchased online. Tula-Tu, the new baby elephant, can usually be seen in Forest Hall from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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