Participating organizations must register with the county and provide a site plan as well as toilet, handwashing and trash disposal facilities.
The resolution draws a direct connection between climate change and housing insecurity in the city.
The departing staff say it will, and the City Council moved forward with shaving off a portion of a city street for parking.
Helping Hands has approval to add 30 beds. But it still needs some extra space for parking. It's eying a piece of a city street.
Thirty new beds would be available for a different kind of client.
Unhoused youth have a renovated space to call "home" for the time being. Here's what's new.
Benton County officials approved using $300,000 in federal pandemic funds to help homeless shelter programs pay for staffing and operations.
Altogether, the tri-counties region's population is roughly the same as a small city.
Bend-based Family Assistance Resource Center will determine the design of the tents, which will eventually house the unhoused.
Stone Soup Corvallis, which offers free meals, will reopen its dining rooms April 2 for the first time since March 2020.
Patricia Parr became homeless in 2017. She was working as an in-home caretaker in Clatsop County when a fire broke out, destroying the residence and all of her belongings.
The city of Corvallis has received more than $1 million that is designed to be used to address homelessness and affordable housing issues.
Nine homeless individuals camping in Pioneer Park in Corvallis have tested positive for COVID-19.
Efforts by Corvallis and Benton County to provide shelter solutions for the homeless are taking shape.
Photos at the building from last week showed materials from the bakery in a dumpster, seemingly thrown out over the weekend.
With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, it’s only fitting that downtown Corvallis’ newest wine bar is called “Corazón,” which translates to “heart” in Spanish, located in the heart of the valley.
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Police say a man at the center of an intense police search in Oregon after a violent kidnapping is underneath the house where the woman was tortured and that officers are trying to get him to surrender. KTVL-TV reports that Grants Pass Police Lt. Jeff Hattersley told them Tuesday evening that Benjamin Obadiah Foster was underneath the Grants Pass home. Law enforcement surrounded the home Tuesday afternoon after receiving a tip that the suspect had gone inside. Hattersley says authorities received “credible information” that Foster had entered the home where the woman was found unconscious, bound and near death on Jan. 24. The newspaper reports four agencies were concentrated in the area.
The Justice Department has been scrutinizing a controversial artificial intelligence tool used by a Pittsburgh-area child protective services agency following concerns that the tool could lead to discrimination against families with disabilities, The Associated Press has learned. The interest from federal civil rights attorneys comes after an AP investigation revealed potential bias and transparency issues surrounding the increasing use of algorithms within the troubled U.S. child welfare system. Several civil rights complaints were filed in the fall about the Allegheny Family Screening Tool, which social workers use to help decide which families to investigate. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment.
Oregon's recently inaugurated Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek has unveiled her budget proposal for the upcoming biennium. She's requesting that $1 billion in spending go toward building and maintaining affordable housing in a bid to address the state's interconnected housing and homelessness crises. She's also asking for hundreds of millions of dollars to fund her other top priorities: mental health and addiction treatment, education and child care. Kotek said the biggest issue when drafting the budget was determining how to keep programs afloat with $3.5 billion in one-time federal funding set to expire. The country's national COVID-19 emergencies are set to end in May.
General Motors has conditionally agreed to invest $650 million in Lithium Americas in a deal that will give GM exclusive access to the first phase of a mine planned near the Nevada-Oregon line with the largest known source of lithium in the U.S. The equity investment the companies announced jointly Tuesday is contingent on the project clearing the final environmental and legal challenges it faces in federal court in Reno, where conservationists and tribes are suing to block it. GM said Tuesday’s announcement marks the largest-ever investment by an automaker to produce battery raw materials. The mine could support production of up to 1 million electric vehicles annually.
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Former Corvallis City Councilor Mark Page, 51, was sentenced on Tuesday, Jan. 31 to two years of probation in Benton County Circuit Court for a 2018 incident involving a firearm.
The arresting charges are assault, strangulation, menacing and more.
Their daughter died at a home in Albany while her parents failed to watch the girl and her two minor siblings.
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Liquids in garbage dumped in the landfill and from decomposing trash, combined with rainwater, are trucked out of Coffin Butte landfill for processing in Corvallis. Should that continue?
Worried about safety, Philomath officials directed city staff to order and install fencing for a housing development where excavation work created a water hazard.