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December 05, 2025
  • Kotek announces 2026 reelection bid
  • Warning: More highway campsites as ODOT $$ drops
  • Trade group: 2025 recycling law is too expensive
  • Court fines lawyer $2,000 for AI errors
  • Kotek calls herself anti-toll in new Governor run
  • OPB Politics now: Kotek run, homeless, taxes
  • 14 Woodburn farmworkers, landscapers detained
  • Gas tax repeal well over double the needed signatures
  • Sen. Wyden: Newport helicopter returned after lawsuit
  • AG makes his living suing Trump
  • Oregon Supreme Ct. Narrows Definition of “Weapon.”
  • Growers find little good news in Oregon wheat market
  • Oregon Hospital Retreats Draw Concerns and Raise Questions
  • Portlanders spend nearly two days in traffic, city ranks 25th in U.S. for gridlock
  • Oregon, Wasco County finally secure state-funded plan to finish Rowena Fire cleanup
  • Gresham City Council debates restrictions on emergency homeless shelter sites
    • December 04, 2025
  • “I Am Hamas” PSU Professor lawsuit
  • Legislators prepare health-related bills
  • Oregon EBT card scams on the rise
  • State reversal = Big shift in expunged convictions treatment
  • Kotek's Prosperity Roadmap filled with flaws (graphic)
  • Gov. targets permit reform, trade in new roadmap
  • Oregon Senate leader condemns Trump's Somali comments
  • Wyden: Congress being blocked from ICE facilities
  • Q&A with Oregon AG
  • Oregon Lottery sends over $887 million back to the state in 2025
  • Oregon seeks companies to build EV fast-charging stations
  • PacifiCorp, reeling from wildfire liabilities, aims to sell power line
  • Report says Oregon lagging in housing production
  • Oregon's Plan for Fixing Its Mental Health System: Build More Beds, Get More Workers
  • Deschutes Co. set hearing for divisive district map
  • Portland approves ‘impact fee' targeting ICE detention center.
  • Behold the Christmas petition truck
  • Board OKs $16M for Black Student Excellence Center
  • Portland Art Museum remodel draws 40,000
  • Portlanders rally for long-term housing
    • December 03, 2025
  • Kotek pledges to tackle lousy business reputation
  • Pushback mounts against gas tax hike
  • Lawmaker: waivers to ski, raft and work out
  • 7 ways we debunk Kotek's new bold save-the-economy proposal
  • Rep. Bynum's border betrayal: families pay the price
  • Oregon's highest paid CEOs
  • Oregon invasive crab climbs over 13-foot-high walls
  • Who's running for office in Oregon in 2026?
  • Sen. Drazan: Kotek's bureaucracy and spin won't solve our problems
  • Federal contempt fines over Oregon State Hospital top $1.4 million
  • Lars Larson: Mayor's big homeless shelter fail
  • When will requirements for Portland candidates be upgraded to weed out unqualified goofballs?
  • Morrow Co rancher who exposed water pollution to run for state House
  • Oregon's Christmas tree specialist on one of state's most important festive crops
  • Oregon olives succeed despite odds
  • PDX will start charging a new $45 fee for some air travelers on Feb. 1
  • Sisters OR Petitioners work to repeal gas tax
  • Oregon school psychologists ordered detained pending federal trial in Ohio