Avelo Airlines announced this week that it will cease flights from Salem next month. Service from Eugene, Redmond and Medford will end in early December. The move is part of the low-cost carrier’s retreat from Oregon, California, Washington and Montana, which Avelo blamed on financial pressures.

The Trump administration is forging ahead with a plan that is sure to fuel alarm across California's immigrant communities: handing over the personal data of millions of Medicaid recipients to federal immigration officials who seek to track down people living in the U.