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Colorado Rep. Brianna Titone before a signing ceremony for the state's 'right to repair' law, Denver, April 25, 2023.
Colorado the 1st State to Pass Farmers' 'Right to Repair'
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3M to Lay Off 6,000 Workers
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Airbus Helicopters Debuts First American-Made Military Versions of the H125
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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a worker measures the size of an equipment at Harbin Turbine Company Limited of Harbin Electric Corporation in Harbin in northeastern China's Heilongjiang Province on Friday, April 28, 2023.
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Workers walk on a skybridge to and from a large Intel facility in Hillsboro, Ore., on March 17, 2023.
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Factory or Farm? Oregon May Alter Land Use for Chipmakers
Oregon — and its "Silicon Forest" — is competing with other states for multibillion-dollar microchip factories.
March 27, 2023
A collection of bottles of Pappy Van Winkle bourbons are seen on the top shelf right, among other fine whiskies at the 'Far Bar,' located in the historic Far East Building in the heart of Little Tokyo in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 4, 2023.
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As Bourbon Booms, Thirst for Rare Brands Breeds Skullduggery
Scarcity has changed what some fans are willing to do to obtain the most sought-after bourbon.
March 8, 2023
The exterior of a Google data center is pictured in The Dalles, Ore., on Oct. 5, 2021.
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Oregon City Drops Fight to Keep Google Water Use Private
Google's data centers in the small town consumed 1 billion liters of water last year.
December 16, 2022
Staffs cleans the floor at the scene of a fatal fire at an apartment building in the Bronx on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022, in New York.
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Several with Grave Injuries After NYC Fire that Killed 19
A malfunctioning electric space heater started the fire.
January 10, 2022
In this April 29, 2009, file photo, Don Wood, an official with the Strategic National Stockpile, awaits another truck load of medications in Salt Lake City, Utah during a swine flu outbreak from the H1N1 virus. The 2009 H1N1 pandemic prompted the largest use to date of the stockpile, which was created in 1999. It has never confronted anything on the scale of the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Supply Chain
US Struggles to Fill Protective Gear Requests
The pandemic has exposed some of the stockpile's shortcomings.
March 19, 2020
This May 24, 2018, file photo shows a marijuana plant in Oregon. In a new ruling, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, which regulates both alcoholic products and recreational marijuana, says beer and other alcoholic drinks as of Jan. 1, 2020. may not contain either THC, the psychoactive component of cannabis, or CBD, the non-psychoactive part that is said to relieve stress and pain.
Food & Beverage
Ore. Bans Boozy Cannabis Beverages
The state is known for its craft beer and high-grade marijuana, but it's keeping the two apart, for now.
December 23, 2019
In this Dec. 5, 2019 photo, workers — most of them from Mexico — load Christmas trees onto a truck at Hupp Farms in Silverton, Ore. On Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, the U.S. House passed a bill that would loosen restrictions on hiring foreign agricultural workers and create a path to citizenship for more than 1 million farm workers estimated to be in the country illegally. The bill's fate in the Senate is unclear, and the White House hasn't said if President Donald Trump would sign it. But the 260-165 vote was a rare stroke of bipartisanship on immigration.
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Immigrant Labor in Christmas Trees
Oregon’s immigrant farm workers are the driving force behind the state's $121 million Christmas tree industry.
December 13, 2019
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Family Shifted Billions from Opioid Company
A lawsuit says the Sackler family realized by 2007 that Purdue faced "catastrophic liability" from criminal and civil investigations.
September 3, 2019
In this Sept. 30, 2016, file photo, a marijuana harvester examines buds going through a trimming machine near Corvallis, Ore. In an attempt to reduce the marijuana inventory in Oregon, the state is moving toward allowing the Oregon Liquor Control Commission to refuse to issue initial marijuana production licenses, based on supply and demand.
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OR to Curb Weed Production
If growing were to stop today, it could take more than six years by one estimate to consume the available legal weed.
May 31, 2019
This Sept. 12, 2018, file photo shows an Apple iPhone XR on display at the Steve Jobs Theater after an event to announce new products, in Cupertino, Calif. A Chinese national in Oregon sent hundreds of supposedly broken iPhones to Apple over two years, and got replacements under warranty of almost 1,500 devices.
Supply Chain
Man Guilty of Defrauding Apple
He would fraudulently submit counterfeit iPhones to Apple in exchange for a replacement device.
May 23, 2019
Joe Ibrahim, head winemaker at Willamette Valley Vineyards in Turner, Oregon, displays a bottle of rose of pinot noir made from grapes grown in southern Oregon that a California winemaker canceled a contract on purchasing just before harvest, claiming they were tainted by wildfire smoke.
Food & Beverage
Shutdown Hurts Oregon Winegrowers
First fire made their grapes difficult to sell. The government shutdown then created a backlog for getting wine labels approved.
January 31, 2019
In this April 24, 2018 file photo, the first rendering from hemp plants is on its' way to becoming fully refined CBD oil in Salem, Oregon.
Food & Beverage
FDA Asked to Update Hemp-Based Food Rules
Despite a bill passed last month, the FDA Commissioner restated his agency's stance that CBD is illegal to add to food products without FDA consent.
January 16, 2019
In this April 24, 2018, file photo, the first rendering from hemp plants extracted from a super critical CO2 extraction device on its' way to becoming fully refined CBD oil spurts into a large beaker at New Earth Biosciences in Salem, Ore. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019, urged the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to update federal regulations to permit interstate commerce of food products containing a key non-psychoactive ingredient of cannabis.
Regulation
FDA Urged to Update CBD Regs
CBD is a drug ingredient and therefore illegal to add to food or health products without the FDA's approval.
January 16, 2019
These pinot noir grapes await harvest at the Benton-Lane Winery in Monroe, Oregon. Officials in Oregon and at a U.S. government agency have told a California winery to back off its claims that it makes an Oregon pinot noir.
Food & Beverage
Oregon in Dispute with CA Winery
At stake is a multi-billion-dollar industry, and Oregon's reputation for producing a delicate pinot noir in its cool, rainy climate.
November 28, 2018