Conservatives have approved a series of ballot measures in pursuit of an improbable plan to redraw the state’s border. We spent time in the region under dispute to see what the debate says about the country’s divisions. WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring how America defines itself one place at a time. Residents in eastern Oregon […]
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Dick Fosbury, a gangly civil engineering student who shocked his peers, delighted sports fans and started a revolution in competitive high jumping with his backward leaps, died on Sunday. He was 76. The cause was lymphoma, a spokesman announced on Instagram. He did not say where Fosbury died. Fosbury’s claim to fame was a signature […]
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The kelp forests off the West Coast are dying, and with their decline, an entire ecosystem of marine plants and animals is at risk. A large starfish with an appetite for sea urchins could come to the rescue. One reason for the disappearing kelp is the tremendous expansion of the sea urchin population that feeds […]
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A slow-moving winter storm will intensify over California on Friday, forecasters said, a day after it walloped large swaths of the West with snow and a wintry mix that disrupted travel along a number of major arteries. Multiple rounds of heavy snow combined with strong winds will create blizzard conditions over high terrain and mountain […]
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Photo: Ben Von Klemperer (Shutterstock) In mid-January, a Black West Sylvan Middle School student was forced to the ground and knelt on by two students who said they would “George Floyd” him. Portland Public Schools Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero and the school board apologized a couple weeks too late for a despicable racist attack, per Oregon […]
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One of the most challenging water-rescue training programs in the world is run by the Coast Guard on the Columbia River when the conditions are at their roughest. WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring how America defines itself one place at a time. Shipwrecks over the last two centuries have shaped towns on Washington’s southern coast […]
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When you spend the night in a ski area parking lot during a snowstorm, there’s a point in the early morning hours when the soundscape inside the van shifts. The quiet huff of snow and wind is broken by the distant thunder of avalanche bombs, and the beep and scrape of snowplows. Those were the […]
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A Chinese balloon seen hovering over Montana this week has been described as an “intelligence-gathering” airship by the Pentagon and a stray civilian research airship by China. Whatever its intended use, the balloon offers a reminder of how for more than a century, governments have used balloons for surveillance and observation, most often during times […]
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