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June 06, 2025
  • Dems block vote on boys in girls' sports
  • Bill targets data centers
  • City OKs $8.5M for Black Families
  • Bill pays more for livestock killed by wolves
  • Update: 100% gas tax hike, Kicker debate, gun bill
  • Portland's largest parking fee increase in history
  • $7 million budget gap at ClackCo Sheriff
  • 4 new overnight-only shelters in Portland
  • Bend considers relaxed restrictions to help housing
  • Environmentalists sue over renewable diesel refinery
  • Metro to Portland: You Can't Raise Taxes
  • Multnomah County Delays Rockwood Shelter
  • OR AG agrees to $66 million from Purdue Pharma
  • Oregon near the top for racial equality in education
  • Rep Boshart Davis: Votes on protecting girls' sports
  • Rewarding unions at the cost of business, schools
  • Salem career criminal selling drug-infused cereal bars
  • Senate-House GOP release rival transportation bill — no new tax
  • Serious Allegation of Discrimination at U of O
  • Teacher licensing agency picks its next leader
  • The 17 bills Kotek signed into law Tuesday
    • June 05, 2025
  • Dems propose massive taxes for transit, pedestrians
  • 34 arrested in retail crime sweep
  • House OKs unemployment for strikers
  • Lawmakers: 100% gas tax hike, 400% wage tax hike
  • Rep. Bynum: "Give' Em Hell Tour" to trash Trump
  • Bill shields utility rate hikes from Big Tech
  • PERS: contribution rate decrease for schools
  • Lars Larson: More Kotek wife trouble brewing
  • Attorneys, police square off over personnel files
  • Bill restricts rental application fees
  • City council hires consultant to learn its function
  • Downtown Portland task force sets goals
  • Drazan: Road tax scheme adds billions in taxes
  • Friends of Frog Ferry continues push for river transit
  • Is Senator Merkley running for re-election?
  • Jury rules in favor of black firefighter in Portland
  • Kotek's $217M homeless shelter bill in trouble
  • Local jails ramping up for ICE detentions
  • Massive recovery grant after 2020 fires remains unspent
  • More homeless women in Portland give birth on street
  • Multnomah pumps brakes on shelter
  • ODOT: $83M in disaster grants
  • Oregon's Psychedelic Service Centers Are Closing
  • Prosper Portland Dir. Steps Down
  • Report: Oregon 'Weak' in Elementary Math
  • Superintendent of Crater Lake National Park resigns
  • Uber urges Portland riders to oppose fee hikes
    • June 04, 2025
  • ODOT managers: In the dark, Everything a crisis
  • Ethics ends review of Kotek's office spending
  • Trans asylum seeker detained by ICE outside courtroom
  • Gov to have more say in vacant Senate seats
  • SB 1095 hearing: Fees on vacant homes.
  • Armed Uber driver demands tip
  • Sen. Reynolds cleared over conflict of interest
  • Infant care in Oregon averages more than $19K a year
  • Interim directors run much of Multnomah
  • Slate of bills to modernize water laws
  • Email trail: Portland Fire Bureau contradicts itself
  • Crater Lake superintendent resigns, citing staff shortages
  • People rally outside Capitol for freedom, low taxes
  • Multnomah invests $250K in projects to boost neighborhood vitality
  • Downtown economic recovery to be focus of Chamber
  • Oregon governor requests federal funding to support aftermath of spring floods
  • Army Corps sees 50% funding drop for salmon restoration
  • Remote train derails in Klamath County