Weekday Wrap: Landslide disrupts Amtrak service between Portland and Seattle

Amtrak pauses service between Portland and Seattle as a consequence of landslide

Amtrak introduced Monday night time that every one practice service between Portland and Seattle is canceled by way of no less than Wednesday. A landslide has blocked the practice tracks about 6 miles north of Vancouver, Washington. Amtrak says restricted different journey choices can be found throughout the closure. Prepare service will proceed as regular between Portland and Eugene, and between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia. Amtrak will waive further costs for patrons who want to vary their reservations throughout the closure. Anybody impacted by the closure can name 1-800-USA-RAIL for extra particulars. (Jeff Thompson/OPB)

Kotek indicators 2 payments to curb plastic air pollution in Oregon

Gov. Tina Kotek on Monday signed two payments aimed toward decreasing plastic air pollution in Oregon. A kind of legal guidelines will part out polystyrene foam foodware, packing peanuts and coolers beginning in 2025. It additionally bans chemical compounds generally known as PFAs from meals packaging merchandise. One other regulation calls on the Oregon Well being Authority to regulate the state’s well being code so individuals can use their very own reusable containers at eating places. It provides the OHA till 2024 to make that change. Washington handed an analogous ban on polystyrene to-go containers in 2021. California doesn’t have a statewide ban, although its two largest cities — San Diego and Los Angeles — applied their very own bans final yr. (April Ehrlich/OPB)

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Decide orders launch of man beforehand convicted of infamous Oregon homicide

A federal decide has ordered the unconditional launch of Frank Gable, a person accused of killing the top of the Oregon Division of Corrections. Gable has maintained his innocence since 1989, and one other individual has repeatedly confessed to the homicide. A 2019 ruling vacated Gable’s conviction and he’s been dwelling in Kansas since then, below courtroom supervision. Oregon justice officers had been making an attempt to get Gable’s conviction reinstated. Monday’s ruling bans the state from rearresting or retrying Gable. (Lillian Mongeau Hughes/OPB)

Clark County councilor lambasts decades-old needle trade

Altering attitudes and shrinking assist on the Clark County Council are clouding the way forward for the county’s decades-old needle trade program aimed toward decreasing the transmission of blood-borne diseases. Every year, lots of of hundreds of used needles are exchanged for clear needles as a part of a program that has been administered since 2005 by the county’s Hurt Discount Heart. The trade program goes again twenty years earlier than then as a response to HIV, hepatitis C and different blood-borne ailments. Councilor Gary Medvigy lately criticized this system, saying he’d prefer it modified or ended, to get replaced with remedy and detox facilities. (Shari Phiel/The Columbian)

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Hunters break up on plan to guard mule deer in Deschutes County

The board of an area department of the Oregon Hunters Affiliation says it’s reversing its assist for a plan devised by Deschutes County that’s supposed to enhance habitat for mule deer. However not all members, each throughout the state and domestically, agree with the board’s determination. The board of administrators of the Bend chapter of the hunters affiliation stated it could possibly now not assist the county’s proposed Mule Deer Winter Vary Combining Zone, also referred to as an “overlay zone,” a turnaround after board members had beforehand supported the rule modifications. The Bend department’s vp stated the department will assist the plan once more if modifications are made to handle different threats to mule deer together with cougars, car strikes and poaching. (Michael Kohn/Bend Bulletin)

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