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National Artist Completes Series of 100 Paintings Depicting Historic Homes in Portland

Portraits pay tribute to the cultural architectural legacy of Portland by artistically documenting the “grandeur of these homes.”

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Historic Portland homes are the subject of a series of original paintings by national architectural artist Leisa Collins.

The house portrait series by Collins spans seventeen of her favorite neighborhoods, including Alameda, Beaumont-Wilshire, Concordia, Grant Park, Irvington, Laurelhurst, Sabin, Sellwood-Mooreland, Eastmoreland and Westmoreland.

Oregon Reports Two More COVID-19 Deaths and 64 New Cases

Oregon’s 103rd COVID-19 death is a 77-year-old man from Marion County

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - COVID-19 has claimed two more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 103, the Oregon Health Authority reported at 8 a.m. today.

Oregon Health Authority also reported 64 new cases of COVID-19 today bringing the state total to 2,510 cases.

Spring Chinook Season Has Opened in Hells Canyon

Chinook are now migrating up the Columbia and will be in Oregon's section of the Snake in the coming weeks.

(ENTERPRISE, Ore.) - Spring Chinook salmon season opened in Hells Canyon on April 25th, from the Dug Bar boat ramp to the boundary below Hells Canyon Dam.

While fishing seasons remain open in Oregon to residents only, efforts should be maintained by participants to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Business Tricks You Need to Know

“You don’t build a business, you build people, then people build the business.” -Zig Ziglar

(SALEM, Ore.) - When starting a business there is so much you need to learn, take into consideration, and apply to your business idea. If you do some quick research you will find many emerging trends that claim amazing results.

Often, these types of "over-positive" statements create unrealistic expectations among small business owners that people end up quite disappointed.

New Stimulus Must Include Benefits for Immigrant Essential Workers

Tax-paying frontline workers have been excluded from the stimulus package and need to be included going forward.

(LONDON) - As soon as it passed, Congressional lawmakers realized the $2.2 trillion CARES stimulus package to help the country through the COVID-19 pandemic would not suffice.

Yes, U.S.-born workers would eventually get $1,200 checks and significantly expanded unemployment insurance. But some essential workers have been left out in the cold.

Salem Man Arrested After Crashing Vehicle While Trying To Elude Officers

He reached speeds in excess of 90 mile-per-hour going north out of the city.

(LINCOLN CITY, Ore.) - As the officers attempted to contact the male, identified as Brandon Franklin Pruett, he sped away. The Officers witnessed Pruett commit several traffic violations and attempted to conduct a traffic stop on the vehicle.

According to Police, Pruett turned north from SE 32nd St onto Hwy 101 and accelerated as he fled north-bound in an attempt to elude the officers.

Washington Man Killed in Hwy 18 Crash

The crash happened about 2:47 a.m. on Hwy 18 near milepost 15.

(POLK COUNTY, Ore.) - Police say that a Dodge Caravan, believed to be early 2000's (possibly 2004) was westbound on Hwy 18 when it left the roadway, struck a tree, and caught fire.

The operator, 24-year old Anthony Maestas of Vancouver, Washington, was pronounced deceased at the scene.

Oregon Reports 5 More COVID-19 Deaths

STAY HOME. STAY WELL. SAVE LIVES.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - COVID-19 has claimed five more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 83, the Oregon Health Authority reported at 8 a.m. today.

Oregon Health Authority also reported 68 more cases of COVID-19 bringing the state total to 2,127.

Pandemic Peaks Online Interest in CBD Products

People are stockpiling natural remedies just as they stockpile rice and toilet paper.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The industry was already experiencing a boon in states throughout the country before the stay at home edicts, but now with 24/7 internet access and little else to do, new brands and increased product lines are rising to meet the retail challenge.

The growth is no doubt the result of the pandemic hitting as increased de-stigmatization of CBD use and the legalization of medicinal hemp becomes the norm.

COVID-19 - Facts or Fears? Solutions or Shutdowns?

A successful infectious disease protocol is called "common sense thinking."

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - "Physical" distancing and limiting contact with others makes sense until this virus gives us some credible information and treatment. In the meantime, has fear taken over common sense? Now we are dealing with a virus that is taking over our country in lives and livelihoods and rationale and answers are badly skewed.

My question is -- who is calling the shots as far as how people are dying -- accurately?