Tag: Oregon State University

West Nile virus has been detected in one mosquito pool captured on Aug. 21 on the Umatilla National Wildlife Refuge according to Oregon State...

By Lynne Terry Oregon legalized medical marijuana in 1998, and in 2015 it legalized recreational use, yet policymakers still know relatively little about the impact...

Umatilla County officials report that West Nile virus has been detected in a mosquito sample trapped in Umatilla County. The mosquitoes were captured on Aug....

By Alex Baumhardt In Sept. 2020, the Archie Creek fire near Roseburg burned all 5,000 acres of the Hinkle Creek watershed, home to rainbow, cutthroat...

Gov. Kate Brown declared a state of emergency Tuesday for most of Oregon - including Umatilla and Morrow counties - through the end of...

A recent report consisting of dozens of interviews with Oregon farmworkers offers a glimpse into the unsafe, unsustainable and often dehumanizing experiences farmworkers have...

Oregon’s greenhouse and nursery industry experienced a COVID-19 boon with value of production topping one billion dollars for a second year in a row,...

Lack of trusted medical sources, traumatic past experiences with medical care and widespread misinformation have contributed to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Latino communities, a...

West Nile virus has been detected in six additional mosquito pools captured the nights of Sept. 13-14 from various testing sites in the rural...

West Nile virus has been detected in one dead Magpie and three additional mosquito pools in August, as well as from various testing sites...

West Nile virus has been detected in four additional mosquito pools captured on Aug. 17 from various testing sites in the rural areas of...

Oregon State University’s groundbreaking public health project, TRACE-COVID-19, has conducted more than 60,000 individual tests and more than 3,000 wastewater tests in dozens of Oregon...

Oregon State University researchers have received a $2 million grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to create a national TRACE Center that...

The 47th annual Hermiston Farm Fair will be held online this year on Dec. 2-4. The three-day agricultural forum is sponsored by Oregon State University’s...

Agriculture remains vital to Oregon’s economy. The state is home to more than 37,200 farms and ranches and with the commercial fishing industry, the...

Hermiston and Umatilla, along four other N.E. Oregon cities, will receive weekly monitoring of their wastewater systems for genetic evidence of the virus that...

Preliminary results from samples taken over the weekend suggest 17 percent of the Hermiston population has the virus that causes COVID-19. “The results of this...

TRACE-COVID-19, Oregon State University’s project to determine community prevalence of the novel coronavirus, will sample community members in Hermiston this weekend, July 25-26, at...

A team of health experts from Oregon State University will be in Hermiston on Saturday, July 25 and Sunday, July 26 to provide free...

More than 100 Hermiston-area individuals and businesses served as sponsors and donors for the Don Horneck Banquet & Auction on Sept. 22. Sponsored by the...