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December 08, 2025
  • Merkley joins Senate Fight Club
  • Ex-housing dir. slams Portland
  • Sen. Starr, Rep. Elmer Guest Editorial
  • $224 lift ticket? Ski resorts absorb insurance hikes
  • Rep. Dexter speaks at ICE facility
  • Sea lions keep eating salmon. Lawmakers want to kill more
  • Ethics to hold meeting on Rep. Smith
  • Union members support gas tax repeal
  • Oregon utility sees big downgrade
  • Fisheries try old tech to boost salmon
  • Oregon seeks a new market for state-inspected meat products
  • Oregon wins settlement on investment commissions
  • Oregon's big 65 pound drug bust from Mexico
  • Portland airport loses out to West Coast rival for prestigious international award
  • Pearl Harbor Day dinner honors Albany man, 105, one of remaining survivors
  • PPS board breakdown
  • Readers respond to Nathan Vasquez tightening drug crime rules
  • Can you solve a cryptic haiku to find the 425 glowing Santas hiding in Portland?
    • December 07, 2025
  • Flood advisory for NW Oregon
  • Whirlwind romance ends in tragedy. Then becomes Trump's target
  • Oregon says ‘Open for Business'; let's hope it's real
  • 55 lbs of meth, 10 lbs of fentanyl seized
  • Can you spot the coal-free nation on this chart? (like Oregon)
  • Multnomah says new DEI officer will be ‘fantastic fit'
  • Senator says ICE 'sic attack dogs' on Vancouver man
  • Medicaid could limit options for mental health services
  • West Coast Health alliance disagrees with CDC on newborn vaccine
  • Job listings indicate “notional” plans for ICE detention facility in Portland
  • Marion Co can continue with construction on new wastewater plant
  • No Tsunami threat to Oregon, Washington following M7 Alaska quake
  • ODOT warns more highway homeless camps over cuts (here's the truth)
  • Why Washington became more successful than Oregon (video)
  • Driver dies in North Portland car crash, 41st traffic fatality in city in 2025
  • Help available for income-qualified owners of damaged household wells
  • Nurses association welcomes mediation as Legacy Health returns to negotiation table
  • Residents worry about a lack of options for Wallace Marine Park
  • Roseburg looking for community input on Stewart Park master plan update
  • Salem City Council considers not reappointing man over past conviction
  • PPS superintendent makes recommendation on Jefferson's boundaries
    • December 06, 2025
  • Oregon's student literacy crisis
  • Lawmakers grapple with economic confusion
  • OEA Union training “protect kids from ICE”
  • Homeless squatter turns on pastor who helped
  • Referendum petition passes 180,000 signatures.
  • Capital Chatter: Kotek's race may be a Drazan rematch
  • Homeless camp removed from former Assembly Brewing site
  • Hood River bridge replacement gets final federal approval
  • Hospitals confront a precarious financial crossroads
  • PGE, Tillamook Creamery accused of ‘massive' groundwater pollution
  • Portland's DA balked at charging federal agents, then AG Rayfield stepped in
  • Rescue helicopter will return, remain in Newport, Oregon's US senators say 
  • Nearly five years in and Powell case drags on, no end in site
  • Oregon Capitol nears a full open after decade-long construction project
  • Portland reverses planned rent hikes at two buildings as apartments sit empty
  • Rowena wildfire debris clean-up finally gets funding, 3 months after Kotek's promise
  • Ashland hospital to shift obstetrics and birthing services
  • Cuts halt Portland-ODOT partnership for homeless camps