Liam Moriarty
Reporter for Jefferson Public Radio-
In response to recent federal court rulings, the City of Medford plans to change its Prohibited Camping Ordinance. But advocates say the proposed changes will make it even harder for people who can’t find housing to survive.
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The Jordan Cove Energy Project’s efforts to bypass state regulators suffered another setback Monday.
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Federal energy regulators Tuesday denied an effort by the Jordan Cove Energy Project to sidestep the State of Oregon’s denial of a key permit. The ruling casts serious doubt on the project’s viability.
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A small group of homeless people and advocates is camping in a little-used parking structure near the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in downtown Ashland.
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Some Democrats in the Oregon legislature say the state should opt out of several tax breaks that were a part of last spring’s $2 trillion federal COVID-19 relief package.
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A new report finds the decline in resident killer whale populations along the West Coast is due not only to various long-term human influences, but to direct human-caused harm, as well.
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A malicious software attack on a large web-hosting company in Minnesota has taken down Jackson County’s primary public website.
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Governor Kate Brown came to the Rogue Valley Monday to get a first-hand look at the devastation caused by the Almeda Fire. After her tour of the damage in Phoenix and Talent, the governor spoke via cell phone with JPR’s Liam Moriarty about what she saw and what the state government can do to help.
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A group of landowners who may be forced to sell their land to the proposed Jordan Cove natural gas pipeline is asking a federal court to shut the project down.
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The US Supreme Court has declined to take up a Klamath Basin water dispute that goes back nearly two decades.