Airport names director
The Coos County Airport District board has selected a new director to head the North Bend airport. Theresa Cook will begin at the Southwest Oregon Regional Airport in December, bringing with her 14 years of experience in airport management. District ...
 1.8K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 323.0 Some who get vaccine not in high-risk groups
LOS ANGELES It was bound to happen: Some people who aren t at high risk for swine flu complications got the much-in-demand vaccine. Sometimes they were healthy adults or senior citizens instead of kids, pregnant women and people with health problem...
5.3K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 384.0 Oregon offers model to boost nursing faculty
PORTLAND A predicted national shortage of nurses in the next decade could be made worse by a shortage of the experienced nurses who train them at community colleges and universities around the country. In response, nursing education leaders from 11...
4.1K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 643.0 Oregon universities recruit more foreign students
CORVALLIS (AP) On the board of a classroom at Oregon State University recently, new international engineering students made two lists about what it s like to study in the United States. Under hard, they wrote: homework, wake up at the morning ...
6.1K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 1000.0 Teachers fail to get jobs following graduation
PORTLAND Most of the estimated 2,400 newly minted teachers who graduated from Oregon colleges of education this year were unable to get hired anywhere in Oregon, proving that a job often billed as recession-proof is not. Education deans and others ...
6.2K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 732.0 Schools get stimulus dollars for energy projects
Three North Bend schools will receive almost $76,000 in federal stimulus funds for energy efficiency projects. Gov. Ted Kulongoski announced that the U.S. Department of Energy will distribute more than $500,000 through the American...
2.2K - Sep. 29, 2009; scored 384.0 Colgate Country Showdown: The next level
Two local singers will compete tonight with six others in the Oregon final of the Colgate Country Showdown at The Mill Casino-Hotel in North Bend. Clint Guevara, 18, and Melanie Mullins, 23, both of North Bend, are the local contestants, representing...
5.4K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 464.0 Eugene firm launching electric vehicle
Tim Christie, The (Eugene) Register-Guard EUGENE Tucked away in a nondescript garage off an unpaved alley in Eugene s Whiteaker neighborhood, a group of young entrepreneurs is trying to catch the next wave of human transport by building an affordab...
6.1K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 427.0 Bradbury s in
PORTLAND ” Former Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury is entering the race to be the state s next governor. Bradbury, who served in the Legislature for 14 years, was to formally announce today, according to his spokesman Jeremy Wright....
3.6K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 525.0 Temporary hires become permanent at college
COOS BAY Two interim administrators at Southwestern Oregon Community College now have permanent full-time jobs. On Monday night, the college announced it has named Linda Kridelbaugh as the vice-president of administrative services. She has served i...
2.7K - Sep. 15, 2009; scored 699.0 Now is the time for seasonal flu shots
WASHINGTON (AP) - It s time to get the first of at least two flu shots recommended for many Americans this fall: Vaccine against regular winter flu is ready. Despite all the headlines about the new swine flu, doctors do expect some garden-variety inf...
4.3K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 464.0 Oregon docs lead health reform caravan to Congress
PORTLAND Some Oregon doctors are headed for Congress to ask lawmakers to take health care reform back to the drawing board and hold a real debate about a single-payer plan that would cover all Americans. The small group of veteran physicians held a...
4.2K - Sep. 9, 2009; scored 572.0 Higher ed plan helps smaller schools
PORTLAND (AP) The big universities will be helping the smaller ones in a distribution plan approved Friday by the state Board of Higher Education s finance committee. All of Oregon s seven public universities will lose state money over the next two...
1.8K - Sep. 5, 2009; scored 821.0 Sen. Wyden will talk health care at town halls
Legislators will be heading back to Washington, D.C., next week, where questions loom about health care reform. Before heading east, Sen. Ron Wyden will be talking about the issue with South Coast residents at four town hall meetings, including one i...
2.7K - Sep. 3, 2009; scored 384.0 Canola good for biofuels, bad for other crops
PORTLAND (AP) With a national push on to develop alternatives to fossil fuels, Oregon may seem well-positioned to benefit. The Willamette Valley in particular has the capacity to grow a significant amount of canola seeds, which can be crushed to yi...
3.8K - Sep. 2, 2009; scored 558.0 Assessor's office welcomes Jansen
Steve Jansen recently joined the Coos County Assessor s Office as a property appraiser. Among the candidates for the position, Jansen stood out because of his education and strong managerial background, said Assessor Adam Colby. The 1966 Marshfield H...
0.9K - Aug. 24, 2009; scored 384.0 Assessor s office welcomes Jansen
Steve Jansen recently joined the Coos County Assessor s Office as a property appraiser. Among the candidates for the position, Jansen stood out because of his education and strong managerial background, said Assessor Adam Colby. The 1966 Marshfield H...
0.9K - Aug. 22, 2009; scored 384.0 VA chief visits Oregon
PORTLAND (AP) U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki says access to veterans benefits, a backlog of claims and homelessness remain problems for veterans nationally but the government is making progress. Shinseki, along with Gov. Ted Kulo...
3.2K - Aug. 20, 2009; scored 464.0 Governor's office helped Ore. lawmaker get new job
PORTLAND (AP) State Rep. Larry Galizio says he did not switch his vote on the Metolius Basin issue in exchange for a job with the Oregon University System. The House initially defeated the measure aimed at banning large-scale destination resort dev...
1.0K - Aug. 14, 2009; scored 600.0 Heat related death reported in Seattle
PORTLAND Authorities on Thursday reported the first death and a possible second linked to a Pacific Northwest heat wave even as days of record, triple-digit temperatures began to moderate. Washington's King County Medical Examiner's office said Thu...
3.0K - Jul. 31, 2009; scored 323.0 | 
