Lynne Terry
Editor | Oregon Capital ChronicleLynne Terry has more than 30 years of journalism experience. She reported on health and food safety in her 18 years at The Oregonian, was a senior producer at Oregon Public Broadcasting and Paris correspondent for National Public Radio for nine years. She has won state, regional and national awards, including a National Headliner Award for a long-term care facility story and a top award from the National Association of Health Care Journalists for an investigation into government failures to protect the public from repeated salmonella outbreaks.
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Late Thursday, Gov. Tina Kotek declared a state of emergency over the fatal storm that has iced sidewalks and roads around the state, caused widespread power outages and damaged scores of homes and vehicles. -
Oregon officials in Ashland, where the boat was inspected, found dead and live specimens. Officials said the latter is particularly worrying because each mussel can reproduce millions of others.
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State health authority officials have launched their second annual campaign aimed at stimulating conversation about drinking and urging those who drink excessively or binge drink to stop.
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The initiative comes amid a big jump in the number of teens who’ve died from drug overdoses in the last five years.
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When Oregon farmers, farmworkers or ranchers sink into an emotional crisis or simply need someone to talk to, they now have counselors available.
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A lower percentage of health care workers are vaccinated against the flu than during the 2019-20 flu season.
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At least several thousand were affected while thousands of others who don’t qualify for Medicaid will keep their insurance.
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One of the Republicans who filed a complaint, Sen. Lynn Findley, called the Senate president a “dictator” and called the committee process a “sham.”
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A 15-year-old case pitting Northwest Native Americans against the federal government that’s been awaiting a U.S. Supreme Court hearing has settled, with the government agreeing to partially restore a sacred site in Oregon.
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People who are poor, older, suffer from disabilities or have unstable housing face a disproportionate threat from wildfires, a new study found.
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They want the agency to update its emission standards and tighten its oversight.
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State health officials are checking to see whether kids in the state have been wrongly kicked off the free health care as they have been elsewhere.
