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AvKare recalls over-the-counter eye drops after FDA audit

1 day ago | ijpr.org | Alana Wise

Pharmaceutical company AvKare has issued a voluntary recall on several of its over-the-counter products for dry and irritated eyes, citing regulatory "deviations" identified during an audit by the Food and Drug Administration. "Health Hazard to the user is unknown," AvKare said in a statement on its website.
A looming wildfire season means electric utilities are preparing for possible outages

2 days ago | ijpr.org | Roman Battaglia

Meteorologists with Pacific Power are anticipating a warmer and drier summer than normal — a combination that raises the risk of wildfires, especially east of the Cascades. Last summer, residents in Talent were frustrated by more than 40 power outages, a number that was reported to be even higher by some residents. Special settings made the electrical grid more sensitive, so even small issues, like a tree branch falling, triggered an outage.
Newsom wants cities to force homeless Californians to move camp every 3 days

3 days ago | ijpr.org | Marisa Kendall

Gov. Gavin Newsom has a new strategy to eliminate the large, long-standing homeless encampments that have been a thorn in his side throughout his administration: Push cities to make them illegal.
This country is slowing climate action. Its capital city is stepping up

3 days ago | ijpr.org | Julia Simon

VIENNA – Vienna's city hall, with its stone towers and gargoyles, often reminds visitors of another neo-gothic building, says city council member Nina Abrahamczik. "Children who come with the school classes are like, 'Oh, it looks like Hogwarts,'" she says. But Abrahamczik, who heads the city's climate and environment committee, says this building has something Hogwarts doesn't: solar panels.
London police arrest suspect for fire at Prime Minister Keir Starmer's old home

3 days ago | ijpr.org | Lauren Frayer

LONDON — Someone set fire to the door of a house British Prime Minister Keir Starmer used to live in, and police say they've arrested a 21-year-old suspect. London's Metropolitan Police say the man was arrested early Tuesday in connection with a series of arson attacks in northern London. He remains in custody. The first fire took place Thursday last week, targeting a vehicle. The second was Sunday, with a fire at the entrance of a property associated with Starmer.
Pacific Northwest leaders urge action as wildfire season nears without federal support

4 days ago | ijpr.org | Martha Bellisle

The biggest issue they’re facing is a lack of communication from the federal government as the West faces “a pretty significant wildland fire season,” Washington State Forester George Geissler said Thursday during a press conference hosted by Democratic Sens. Patty Murray of Washington and Jeff Merkley of Oregon.
Hazard maps, air tankers and funding: Cal Fire prepares for longer, more unpredictable wildfire season

6 days ago | ijpr.org | Sarit Laschinsky |Chris Nichols

California’s wildfire season is now nearly a year-round danger, as was seen by the devastating, fast-moving fires that swept through the Los Angeles area in January. Fueled by the effects of climate change, wildfires across the state are also growing larger and more unpredictable, and impacting the lives of more Californians. Earlier this year Cal Fire — the state’s firefighting agency — released an updated set of fire hazard maps, the first in almost 15 years.
Engineers reveal why Medford school's gym roof collapsed - it wasn't the snow

6 days ago | ijpr.org | Jane Vaughan

A structural evaluation by Portland-based engineering firm KPFF found the snow was only a minor contributor to the collapse. Structural engineer Katie Ritenour told the Medford School Board at a meeting on Thursday night that one cause of the collapse was that some major glue-laminated beams, or glulams, failed along the diagonal line where they were glued together, called scarf joints. "When looking at the damaged timber, we also saw a lot of failed scarf joints," she said.
Curry County flirts with flouting Oregon’s sanctuary law amid statewide tensions

1 week ago | ijpr.org | Conrad Wilson |Bryce Dole |Michelle Wiley

Curry County’s Board of Commissioners meeting Wednesday night caused an uproar over a proposed resolution supporting cooperation with federal immigration officials — a move that would directly contradict Oregon’s decades-old sanctuary law that prohibits using local resources for immigration enforcement. The southwest Oregon county’s three-member governing body considered a non-binding proclamation that states the commissioners’ disagreement with state law.
A new initiative could reshape homeless services in Grants Pass

1 week ago | ijpr.org | Jane Vaughan

The goal of Pathways to Stability is to provide one centralized hub for service providers, as well as transitional housing for between 150 and 250 homeless people. Kevin Darr is the senior pastor of the drug and alcohol program U-Turn For Christ, which is driving this proposal. He said this new project would get all the regional providers working together in the same location.