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Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB An audit by the Oregon secretary of state’s office has found gaps in the state health authority’s implementation of Ballot Measure 110, the state’s landmark drug ...

Snow showers are moving through the Tri-State Saturday afternoon and are expected to continue through the evening. By the end of the event, many communities could pick up 4-8 or more inches of snow ...

Lebanon has an issue on the ballot regarding an adult use dispensary.The ballot question reads: "Shall the following adult use dispensary, Therapeutic Healing Care II, LLC dba Ethos, whose owners also ...

Having good neighbors can be very valuable—even in the atomic world. A team of Amsterdam physicists was able to determine an important property of strontium atoms, a highly useful element for modern ...

Opponents of a sales tax measure on the November ballot have accused Santa Clara County leaders of improperly urging a yes vote on Measure A, through a taxpayer-funded mailer sent to every household ...

The United States is one of just three countries that "prefers" imperial measurements over the international metric standard. The motivation why has less to do with official policy than you might ...

Regarding that 111% raise the Butte County supervisors gave themselves just four months after their Measure H sales tax increase took effect — giving Chico and Oroville a higher sales tax than ...

What just happened? Engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a method for measuring heart rates that requires no wristband, smartwatch, or medical device. Instead, the ...

Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. student Nayan Bhatia demonstrates Pulse-Fi, technology that uses WiFi signals to measure a person's heart rate. Heart rate is one of the most basic and important ...

It was a sweltering afternoon at a Walmart near Traverse City, Michigan. Families moved up and down the aisles, oblivious to the danger looming nearby—until chaos erupted. In seconds, 11 people went ...

So far this year, electricity use in the US is up nearly 4 percent compared to the same period the year prior. That comes after decades of essentially flat use, a change that has been associated with ...