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Ski resorts losing options after insurance company quits Oregon

1 week ago | ijpr.org | Justin Higginbottom

Safehold Special Risk has pulled out of Oregon, saying it was losing too much money following a 2014 ruling that made it easier to sue ski resorts for negligence. The Oregon Supreme Court decision weakened the power of liability waivers, increasing the legal risk for ski resorts and their insurers. Safehold has called Oregon an “extreme outlier” in how it handles negligence claims against ski resorts.
Oregon farm group says rising immigration enforcement is disruptive to agriculture

1 week ago | ijpr.org | Alejandro Figueroa

The Oregon Farm Bureau says its members are raising concerns about targeted immigration enforcements in agricultural communities after U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement officials were sighted in Yamhill County. Federal immigration officials arrested a Newberg vineyard management business owner and one of his employees on Thursday. Now the farm bureau, which is Oregon’s largest agriculture group, is working to connect farmworkers and farmers to legal resources.
Gray whales along the West Coast appear to be in trouble

1 week ago | ijpr.org | Bellamy Pailthorp

Scientists say they’ve seen a surprising number of gray whale strandings this year during their migration up the west coast — 13 as of late May in Washington alone, which is more than twice the normal average. “Just in Washington. And usually our peak continues through the end of June. So we’re, you know, I think we are going to be seeing more,” saidwhale biologist John Calambokidis, who has studied gray whales for more than 40 years with Cascadia Research Collective in Olympia.
Juneteenth celebrations planned across the region in coming days

1 week ago | ijpr.org | Jane Vaughan

Throughout Southern Oregon and far Northern California, groups will honor the anniversary in a variety of ways. In Eureka, Black Humboldt will hold a multiday cultural festival from Thursday through Saturday.
Oregon lawmakers pass $800 million bill for Portland MLB stadium

1 week ago | ijpr.org | Bryce Dole

In a bid to bring professional baseball to Portland, Oregon lawmakers have decided they’re swinging for the fences. Senate Bill 110 sailed through the Oregon Legislature with bipartisan support, passing the House of Representatives on a 46-6 vote Tuesday. The bill authorizes $800 million in bonds to help fund the construction of a professional baseball stadium on Portland’s South Waterfront.
Privacy advocates raise alarm over Souther Oregon surveillance tactics

1 week ago | ijpr.org | Justin Higginbottom

Email threads from the “Southern Oregon Analyst Group,” released by the anti-surveillance group Information for Public Use, show informal intelligence sharing between the Medford Police Department and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations. The unofficial crime analyst group, which included officers from departments around Southern Oregon as well as the FBI and ICE, was used to share surveillance tips and services between 2021 and 2024.
Trump lawyers call his decision to send troops to LA ‘unreviewable’ by U.S. courts

1 week ago | ijpr.org | Mikhail Zinshteyn |Ben Christopher

A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals seemed at least open to that argument in a remote video hearing today, unlike a lower court judge who ruled against the administration last week. The arguments played out as Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ended a curfew that she imposed after President Trump sent the National Guard and U.S. Marines to the city in response to immigration protests. California’s Democratic leadership, led by Gov. Gavin Newsom, has called the deployment unnecessary.
How livestock guardian dogs are helping rural communities fend off wolves

1 week ago | ijpr.org | Justin Higginbottom

Cindy Benson first became interested in livestock guardian dogs as a way to protect the 120 miniature donkeys on her property in Gold Hill, Oregon. Mountain lions were terrorizing the herd, so she got a big, fluffy Maremma, an Italian sheepdog used for centuries to ward off wolves. “They go out there and they work all night long,” Benson said.
As California’s gray wolf population grows, so do conflicts with ranchers

1 week ago | ijpr.org | Manola Secaira

It’s a sunny day, around noon, at Roberti Ranch. Usually, the ranch’s nearly 6,000 acres could be described as a peaceful parcel of land in Plumas County. But right now, the Roberti’s are dealing with an issue that’s becoming a little too familiar: There’s a wolf on the ranch. The family, gathered by the porch of their home, watches through binoculars as the wolf comes closer and closer to a two-day-old calf.
Latest federal budget bill would sell Oregon public lands, boost logging

1 week ago | ijpr.org | Courtney Sherwood

A draft of the legislation was released Wednesday by U.S. Senator Mike Lee, R-Utah, who since at least 2022 has repeatedly pushed to sell off public lands for housing development. Housing is also part of this latest push to sell Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service land.