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January 17, 2026
  • Hit with criticism, AG stands by ballot
  • Ashland has too many city-owned buildings
  • Tense ICE encounter caught on video
  • WS Journal article roasts Portland
  • Bend to stop ICE on city property
  • Coast Guard OKs new I-5 bridge without movable span
  • Analysis shows Oregon bridges are mostly in fair condition
  • Woman shot by FED appears in court by video
  • ODOT warns of cuts … but is that whole story?
  • Oregon's new Chief Privacy Officer and A.I. Strategist
  • Legislative Ag update
  • Oregon sues nonprofit it once trusted to care for kids placed in foster care
  • Remembering Stan Baumhofer, citizen extraordinaire
  • Jackson Co D.A. finds no evidence of illegal conduct at Talent library
  • Portland City Council's reluctant new president charts his path forward
  • Salem committee moves idea for $400K fund for ICE-impacted families
    • January 16, 2026
  • AG confirms lawmakers can't repeal gas tax
  • Homelessness jumped 35% in Oregon
  • B.C. joins OR, recriminalizes drugs
  • Bill to fix mental health workforce shortage
  • Columbia R Bridge: $140 million to businesses
  • Could USPS changes affect vote by mail?
  • Fed mental health and addiction funding restored
  • Gelser to reintroduce child abuse bill
  • New Portland council president states priorities
  • ODOT warns it could cut more than 1K jobs
  • Ore-Ida to Launch French Fry Skis
  • Oversight over state literacy grants?
  • Portland State agrees to reinstate laid off faculty
  • Portlanders: dim outlook on economic prospects
  • Prosper Portland to acquire Old Town site
  • Readers respond: forest management act
  • Springfield Public Schools: mid-year budget gap
  • UO player indicted in college betting scheme
  • USPS worker sentenced for stealing prescriptions
  • Vancouver: fed investigation over trans athletes
  • Washington may ban sales of farmed octopus
  • Wyden: bill to stop Trump name on buildings
    • January 15, 2026
  • Feds warn OR on unemployment $$ to strikers
  • How PDX taxes grew since the pandemic
  • Kotek appoints Knopp "Chief Prosperity Officer"
  • Nation's first alcohol-free distillery closes
  • Lars: A politician who fessed up, did right
  • Lawmakers confront ballooning Medicaid
  • Judge to Trump: Hands off voter data
  • Portland to ban feds from wearing masks?
  • Dexter files articles of impeachment on Noem
  • Douglas County unemployment rises to 6.5%
  • Filling vacant storefronts in Portland's Old Town
  • Man helps homeless woman - she loots his bank
  • Man shot by Border Patrol in SE PDX enters plea
  • Murmurs: Rockwood Development Scrapped
  • Nitrate rules for NE OR don't make anyone happy
  • ODOT presentation on funding gap
  • Officials speak out after Trump threatens OR funding
  • OHA seeks funds to pay for fed changes — while cutting care payments
  • OR Senate Dems: bills to resist Trump admin
  • OR sues Trump admin over transgender rules
  • OR utilities way off track on green energy
  • PDX Councilor accused of firings to retaliate for union
  • Portland City Council finally elects president
  • Starr Discusses Gathering 250k Signatures Overnight
  • WA Gov state of the state address
  • What is the purpose of public education?