Andrew Selsky

  • This High Dynamic Range (HDR) photo of grapes growing on the vines in Napa Valley, California offers a luminescent peek at some beautiful bunches of grapes, grape leaves, and vineyard.Environment

    Wildfires are making west coast wines taste like an ashtray as hundreds of thousands of tons of grapes are too smoky to be usable

    By Andrew Selsky and The Associated Press
  • PAICINES, CA – AUGUST 17: Kelly Mulville, vineyard manager tends to vines at the Paicines Ranch, where owner Sallie Calhoun is making the best of the dry conditions near Paicines, Calif., on Tuesday, August 17, 2021. Calhoun owns the ranch, which specializes in raising grass-fed sheep and a vineyard. The ranch”u2019s operations have been severely impacted by the drought because she relies on rain to irrigate the pastures and groundwater from an aquifer to irrigate her vineyard, and the drought threatens to lower water levels in the aquifer. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)Environment

    Wildfire smoke is a huge crisis for the wine industry. Researchers are scrambling for a solution before climate change devastates the industry

    By Andrew Selsky and The Associated Press
  • Dried Psilocybe mushrooms on a glass plate. Photographer: James MacDonald/BloombergMind

    Oregon’s legalized magic mushrooms are in high demand. Experts hope the ‘breakthrough therapy’ helps users overcome mental health struggles

    By Andrew Selsky and The Associated Press
  • Oregon gasEnvironment

    ‘It’s about time’:You can now pump your own gas in Oregon for the first time in 72 years

    By Andrew Selsky and The Associated Press
  • FILE – George Coble carries a bucket of water to put out a tree still smoldering on his property destroyed by a wildfire on Sept. 12, 2020, in Mill City, Ore. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)Environment

    Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway may be on the hook for billions for devastating Oregon wildfires

    By Andrew Selsky, Gene Johnson, and others
  • FILE – Posters of Fox News Channel personalities are displayed at the News Corp. headquarters in New York, April 19, 2017. Oregon’s attorney general announced Monday, June 5, 2023, she has begun investigating the board of directors of Fox Corp., for breaching its fiduciary duties by allowing Fox News to broadcast false claims about the 2020 presidential election, claims that cost the broadcaster almost $800 million in a lawsuit. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)Finance

    Fox shareholder Oregon is investigating if the board failed its fiduciary duties by allowing Fox News to broadcast false 2020 election claims

    By Andrew Selsky and The Associated Press
  • Shemia FaganSuccess

    An Oregon politician turned to a secret $10,000 monthly deal with a weed firm because her $77,000 salary couldn’t cover her student loans and divorce

    By Andrew Selsky and The Associated Press
  • Shemia FaganPolitics

    Oregon is in the weeds of an ethics scandal over secretary of state’s paid consulting job with a marijuana firm

    By Andrew Selsky and The Associated Press
  • Co-founder Tanner Mariani looks over bags of marijuana buds that fill the showroom of the Portland Cannabis Market in Portland, Ore., on March 31, 2023. Oregon, which has huge stockpiles of marijuana, should prepare for the U.S. government eventually legalizing the drug and position the state as a national leader in the industry, state auditors said Friday, April 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)Politics

    Oregon state officials say that now is the time to ease up on marijuana regulation and get ahead of possible nationwide legalization

    By Andrew Selsky and The Associated Press
  • River Herber, an employee of Preserve Oregon, a marijuana shop in Salem, Oregon, rolls a joint on Jan. 31, 2023. Along the West Coast, which has dominated U.S. marijuana production from long before legalization, producers are struggling with what many call the failed economics of legal pot…a challenge inherent in regulating a product that remains illegal under federal law. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)Lifestyle

    Marijuana growers are between a rock and a hard place as they face oversupply and interstate commerce woes: ‘I’m tired of running a failing business’

    By Gene Johnson, Andrew Selsky, and others
  • Magic mushroomsSuccess

    A 33-year-old Portlander has spent $25,000 on a magic mushrooms business with no profit in sight. She’s trying to ‘grow as much medicine as I can.’

    By Andrew Selsky and The Associated Press
  • Psilocybe mushrooms at the Numinus Bioscience lab in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. Numinus Wellness Inc, a mental health care company specializing in psychedelic-assisted therapies was the first public company in Canada to harvest the first legal batch of mushrooms from the Psilocybe genus last year. Photographer: James MacDonald/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesHealth

    Oregon is one big step closer to tripping on magic mushrooms

    By Andrew Selsky and The Associated Press
  • OregonPolitics

    Oregon farmers and their Republican representatives hate a new bill that makes farmland eligible for semiconductor plants

    By Andrew Selsky and The Associated Press
  • Aaron Nichols holds rich soil on his farm on March 17, 2023, in the unincorporated community of Helvetia, Ore. Nichols believes that a bill in the Legislature that would allow the governor to unilaterally expand urban growth boundaries threatens farms. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)Tech

    Chance to host semiconductor factories under CHIPS Act has Oregon reconsidering rules against urban sprawl

    By Andrew Selsky and The Associated Press
  • Oregon PsilocybinHealth

    Oregon just licensed its first class of ‘facilitators’ to accompany patients on psychedelic ‘magic mushroom’ trips

    By Andrew Selsky, Mike Corder, and others