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PacifiCorp agrees to pay $125 million to wineries, vineyards whose grapes were damaged by 2020 Labor Day fires

Attorneys for 93 wineries and vineyards said that the utility company agreed to a $125 million settlement after a lawsuit alleged wildfire smoke tainted...

Whale and dolphin migrations are being disrupted by climate change

For millennia, some of the world’s largest filter-feeding whales, including humpbacks, fin whales, and blue whales, have undertaken some of the longest migrations on...

Oregon resident infected with E. coli after eating raw milk cheese linked to Washington creamery

Three people became infected after consuming the cheese. One person was hospitalized, and at least one patient is a child younger than 5 years...

Sales tax going up in Ridgefield to fund police force expansion

Amid a growing population, Ridgefield city councilors voted to increase the sales tax 0.1% in order to hire two new police officers, among other...

Frog toys sell out at PDX store as Portland’s newest viral symbol: ‘We are one together’

Paper Epiphanies in the Portland airport's new terminal has sold out of stuffed frogs, with customers seeing them as a symbol of Portland unity....

Government shutdown likely means no inflation data next month for 1st time in decades

The government shutdown likely means there won’t be an inflation report next month for the first time in more than seven decades, the White...

Are you the asshole? Of course not!—quantifying LLMs’ sycophancy problem

Measured sycophancy rates on the BrokenMath benchmark. Lower is better. ...

A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions

In turn, the delay in network state propagations spilled over to a network load balancer that AWS services rely on for stability. As a...

Man takes herbal pain quackery, nearly dies, spends months in hospital

Deadly doses The supplements were: Artri King, Nhan Sam Tuyet Lien, and Linsen Double Caulis Plus. All are known to contain unlisted glucocorticoids, according...

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