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Oregon's unemployment rate parked at 6.0% in April. Long-term unemployment rose to its highest level in years.

Meanwhile California is following through with its pledge to pump $4.6 billion into summer school across the state in an effort to help students who fell behind during distance learning.

The state's unemployment rate is at its lowest point since before the COVID-19 pandemic wrecked the economy in March 2020. But 109,000 fewer people have jobs than in February 2020.

NOAA is updating its definition of what a "normal" Atlantic hurricane season looks like, based on the last 30 years. The average number of hurricanes in the new normal has risen from 6 to 7.

The 25-year-old Ashleigh Barty beat 29-year-old Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic in three sets, bringing home the first women's Wimbledon trophy in more than four decades.

Rescuers continue to search for survivors of Monday's quake, which trapped people in a collapsed supermarket in Pampanga province and caused panicked office workers to flee buildings in Manila.

European countries put more restrictive measures in place to control the spread of COVID-19. France has a strict overnight curfew, but the government says that's not enough to slow the virus down.

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The state’s cumulative test positivity rate, since the beginning of the pandemic, is 4.5%. The national average is 9%, OHA said.

New School Year Tests Teachers, Students and Parents Like Never Before As classes resume throughout the state, one thing is clear: This academic year will be unlike any before, as the pandemic shuttered classrooms and forced most of the state’s school districts to instruct more than 6 million K-12 students remotely. Despite a complex waiver … Continue reading KQED Newsroom Education Special →