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September 20, 2026
  • Solid-blue Oregon suddenly looks flippable.
  • Little-known Democrat key to state's future
  • Congress Cage Match: Bynum vs. Adair
  • (1-min. video) Zombie-like Portland streets
  • Strong El Niño to shape Oregon's fall and winter
  • Kotek blames Trump for $250M Bonneville rate hike
  • Wyden: Investigate illegal DHS voter data access
  • Dems: Transfer 18600 acres of Fed forest to tribes
  • WSJ Opinion: Will Oregon switch?
  • Highways face growing maintenance burden
  • Honor Flight Veterans honored during homecoming
  • Oregon Hazelnut prices rebounded over 60%.
  • Ashland plans public process for utility fees
  • No injuries reported after aircraft flips on Medford Airport runway
  • Oceanside landmark needs your help: Oceanside Tunnel work party
  • The pearl of Mayor Wilson's homeless shelter initiative closes
  • What MINT's departure means for Grants Pass' new homeless shelter
  • What was done with the tmber from the Mt. Tabor trees felled by the ‘24 ice storm?
  • Nike, nonprofit face lawsuit over alleged rape during event for high school athletes
  • PPS finds Title I schools underenrolled compared to peers
  • Transparency and Little Kits shutdown at OSU-Cascades
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    September 19, 2026
  • Kotek unveils 2027 proposals
  • Court overturns BOLI union wage rule on housing
  • Oregon among nation's largest road $$ gaps
  • U.S. Rep. Bynum won't answer socialism question
  • (miracle) Filmmaker survives 120-ft fall in Mt. Hood
  • Judge blocks millions in fines to Oregon
  • Corrections Dept.: We need a new prison
  • Online Poll: Gas prices, How have you been impacted?
  • Oregon flip red? New poll gives Drazan lead
  • Controversial biofuel company backs out of southern Oregon project
  • NFIB: measures to reduce mandates
  • Oregon loses skilled trade workers to neighboring states as high unemployment persists
  • Oregon will kill 18 cougars to protect bighorn sheep in remote area
  • USFS proposes logging, replanting in fire-damaged Oregon forest
  • New Committee, funded in part by Chamber of Commerce, attacks Mitch Green
  • Salem makes national news on steeple bird flocking
  • Tribes hit hard by wildfires face health effects, cultural losses
  • Charter school teachers have discovered the emergency exit
  • Oregon public university workers authorize strike, could walk out Sept. 28
  • Arson arrests: 4 for wildfire, 1 for school
  • Controversial homeless shelter shutters
    • September 18, 2026
  • 3 more arrested in Chelan Hills wildfire
  • Ballot measure aims to ban corporate contributions
  • Slow, steady decline in jobs
  • Don't let Kotek cancel gas tax vote
  • How Oregon's close Congress seats became safe
  • McMinnville school enrollment lower than expected
  • PDX councilor stands by 'spicy' tweets about police — defies union call to resign
  • (photos) SWAT team bust mass-trash homeless den
  • Portland votes to pursue data center moratorium
  • Lake Oswego schools should collaborate with church
  • Amazon plans drone delivery as it expands in Portland
  • Bonneville Power Admin asks for 6.3% rate hike
  • Court reverses order to move transgenders from men's prisons
  • Harrington will step back from duties but won't resign
  • Hoyle, Merkley, Wyden: bill to end corporate chokehold on health care
  • Kotek unveils policy proposals for a second term
  • Petition Filed to Recall PPS Board Chair
  • Portland marks Sept. 25 as Dolly Parton Day
  • Portland Mayor says Moda Center deal is 'fragile'
  • Seattle mayor: emergency response order after shooting
  • Socialist candidates 1,600 donors entitles them to tax $$
  • USPS halts vote-by-mail changes after court ruling
  • ‘OPB Politics Now': Oregon governor's race tightens