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August 30, 2026
  • Oregon increases spending on low-income housing. State law keeps the details secret
  • Oregon Cloud-Seeding inquiry focuses on licensing and fate of Silver Iodide
  • Proposed Oregon fund would help small cities' facilities stay open during budget crises
  • 7 lawsuits against Portland housing provider after deaths go undiscovered
  • Bend homeowners slash prices as Oregon leads nation in home price reductions
  • How much do you need to make to live comfortable in Oregon? — New report
  • Drazan TV clip on data centers
  • Mussel harvest closure Cape Blanco to CA coast
  • Pattern change underway across the Pacific Northwest
  • Recycling Modernization Act OEA update
  • Why Polk Co voters are turning to referendums to undo city policies
  • Four weeks after Centennial Mills blaze, Pearl District park still shut
  • Homeless utterly take apart vacant homes
  • Medford, Ashland libraries adjust to being closed on Sundays
  • Tigard wants to know what types of housing residents prefer
  • As blazes raged across E Oregon, some schools became fire camps
  • OSU's Eastern Oregon Ag Research Center turns 125
  • Deputies: Man shoots at workers cutting down trees near his home in Clackamas Co
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    August 29, 2026
  • State Dept reveals Portland Antifa connection to Hamas, Iran's IRGC
  • Data centers: new flashpoint between Kotek, Drazan in governor's race 
  • Federal court rules Oregon's ‘landmark' recycling law is constitutional
  • Draft ballot title unveiled for Oregon's 2028 hunting and fishing rights measure
  • Lars Larson: Church may find its land stripped away
  • Wave energy testing site opens, a green energy milestone in the Trump admin.
  • Kotek surveys wildfires, visits with National Guard responders
  • Liberals new ban, airport hangars?
  • Order barring insurance from dropping homes near Oregon wildfires extended
  • Oregon emergency coordination center demobilizes, returns to Level 4 amid fires
  • Rep. Javadi faces GOP challenger Max Sherman in 1st election since switching parties
  • C. Oregon hunters can help track grouse, quail populations by donating wings
  • McCully Fire north of Sumpter nears 9,000 acres on Friday
  • Medford City Council election set with 3 contested races
  • ‘Extreme concern': Toxic algae bloom cancels events along Willamette River
  • Bonamici speaks out against Trump administration Head Start proposals
  • Central Oregon C.C. faculty declare impasse over pay, cost of living
  • Mexican national, Oregon resident, gets prison for buying 124 guns illegally
    • August 28, 2026
  • DOJ sues over in-state tuition for illegals
  • Judge Rules Against SEIU
  • Kotek urges wildfire caution ahead of Labor Day
  • 200 bed shelter faces foreclosure
  • Gas Tax backfill plan: Tax on tires, Uber, cars, tolls, more …
  • Oregon tops 2.5 million acres burned — weeks more to go
  • Secretary of State says mail elections to continue
  • Central City Concern sued over decomposing resident
  • DOJ won't investigate 6 reports of fed misconduct
  • Judge upholds Oregon packaging recycling law
  • Lars Larson: Sec-State's faulty pronouncement
  • Multnomah County adopts first climate justice plan
  • North Plains: 3rd interim city manager in a month
  • Northwest immigration arrests surged in June, July
  • OR explores tax hikes far beyond roads and drivers
  • Readers respond: Does TriMet care if it shrinks?
  • Recall petition against Seattle mayor withdrawn
  • Why Do Homeless Have to Leave Shelters in Day?