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September 28, 2026

Audit: Education Dept. failed on $338M Program

Home Depot protest for day laborers access

Flock cameras face 2027 lawmakers ire

K-12 $$, absenteeism programs face risks

Astoria Measure: $3,000 empty home tax

24 best large employers in 2026

Gov.'s executive order on natural resources

Deschutes Democrats should stop endorsing nonpartisan races

Knight's $1B gift turns Nike $$ into engineering ambition

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Bridge barriers save lives. Why hasn't Oregon built more?

Betsy Johnson endorses Max Sherman in key HD#32

Full page article to explain cryptic Rank Choice Voting

Lane Co. struggles to site its recycling facility

Map: How El Niño will change winter

Oregon Gold Star families honored with new memorial at Willamette Nat'l. Cemetery

Pacific Power to charge new data centers for all growing energy need costs

State warns Oregonians about buying low-cost health plans that cover little

Hagen Fire update: Fire moves to more compact organization

Immigration arrests rise outside Oregon big-box stores, supermarkets

New wildfire sparks south of The Dalles

Rep. Bonamici: Guardrails for AI in schools

September 27, 2026

Wyden: $50K Fed match to help buy a home

Drazan targets Kotek with billboards

Milwaukie moves to split with county

The forests Oregon ‘protected' are burning

Classic Oregon nature photo (homeless updated)

Cyclist surround Blazer arena to protest bailout

Oregon hospital made parents drive to Seattle with dead infant

Oregon's housing secrecy law shields how billions in tax dollars are spent

Why does Oregon have so many data centers? And why do we need more?

Column: The price of price controls in Oregon healthcare

Dems condemn Drazan's appearance with Gov. DeSantis at GOP event

Josephine Co advances bridge replacement, Transit, emergency Comm.

Rule change to ODFW's Special Hunting Tag Program

$55.5M Salem I-5 project wraps early, saving $1M amid ODOT scrutiny

AG subpoenas records on Made in Old Town

Bike protesters decry using tax dollars for $600M Moda Center upgrades

Central Oregon motorcyclists hold annual Teddy Bear Run, deliver 100s to hospitals

Milwaukie moves closer to split from county over stalled park

OSU assess social media's relationship with loneliness, depression among adults

Salem City Council to vote on dropping residential speed limits to 20 mph

Uncertainty and unknowns prevail Portland's 2nd ranked choice council election

Portland School Board takes early step toward a screen time policy

September 26, 2026

Supreme Court's siding with Trump on federal voter database won't impact Oregon

Kotek and Drazan meet onstage for the first time this year. Here's what they said

Oregon attorney general pushes for federal oversight of AI

OR students edge up in some areas, but still lag far behind a decade ago

Lars Larson: Beautiful buildings or educated children?

Central Oregon electric bills could rise again as BPA seeks rate hike

Drazan targets Kotek on Salem billboards as Democrats fire back

Is it legal to record a conversation in Oregon?

ODF drops wildfire danger level to moderate across Central Oregon

OR, WA residents have seen significant debt balloon over last decade, data shows

Oregon regulators warn about risky health insurance alternatives

Patti Adair (CD#5) talks No-Tax-on-Tips with student

First Starbucks in Oregon to unionize is being shuttered

Portland voters are frustrated. City Council is deadlocked

Wickiup Reservoir to see rapid drawdown amid drought

4,600 campus workers prepare to walk out at Oregon universities

Controversy involving North Salem football sparks statewide reaction

Bust: Enormous stash of thief tools (photo)

Former Salem teacher sentenced for abusing his infant children