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January 25, 2026
  • Proposed initiative outlaws animal agriculture, hunting
  • GOP struggles in state's most flippable district
  • Wyden challenges attempts to suppress mail-in voting
  • Editorial: I must be wrong about anonymous bills
  • Lawmakers denounce fatal shooting in Minneapolis
  • What lawmakers will discuss in legislative session
  • Video tour of hidden homeless super-bunker
  • VOTE: Do you support state-level AI regulations?
  • Oregon ski resorts and others continue push for liability releases
  • Oregon unemployment rate flat, but unexpected sectors lost jobs in December
  • Top cop OKs rare waiver, lands buddy a big promotion
  • Crab gear pulled early to spare humpbacks
  • Decision on Trainsong fuel-transfer station drags on, leaving neighbors in limbo
  • Legacy Health cease-desist letter to union after ICE
  • Mayor, council calls for peaceful protests
  • Mussel harvest reopens
  • Oregon safety agency revokes certifications for 9 officers
  • Portland faces $13.6M budget gap in current year. Second this fiscal year
  • Protesters at Portland ICE facility, met with tear gas
  • UO professor says web blackout makes it hard to know if family in Iran is safe
    • January 24, 2026
  • A year of failures: How Dems bungled gas tax
  • Kotek addresses immigration enforcement
  • Dem lawmakers targeted by SEIU-group
  • Medford removes controversial bike lanes
  • Lars Larson: Kotek's tax trickery
  • Family detained while taking child to hospital
  • Manulife closes lands to free public access
  • Democratic leaders push to move referendum to May
  • Rule barring Oregon Reps. from fundraising could be unconstitutional
  • $100M for statewide community projects
  • Kotek picks public defense head
  • Lawmakers plan focus on Oregon's health care spending
  • Nevada's state forester nominated as 1st woman to lead Oregon Forestry Dept.
  • Policy group blasts Interstate Bridge cost secrecy
  • Prosperity Council gets to work, with first meeting in Portland
  • Unions release ads for business tax hike
  • Nurses demand safe hospitals after ICE detains family
  • Oregon State Hospital now in compliance with patient care and safety standards
  • Winter weather prompts emergency shelter activation
    • January 23, 2026
  • Who's running for Governor
  • Activist Aims to Fold Multnomah Into Portland
  • ODOT lays out cuts
  • Trump targets blue states in $$ data request
  • Kotek admits mistake. 89% oppose vote swap
  • NW lawmaker 1 of 7 House Dems to vote yes on DHS bill
  • BOLI Orders Boat Contractor to Pay Prevailing Wages
  • ICE protesters shut down Portland City Council
  • I-5 bridge program leaders give update — project in jeopardy?
  • Kotek creates data center advisory committee
  • Kotek taps Oregon's next forest boss
  • Merkley downplays Greenland's significance
  • Mobile parks sue over rent freeze in WA
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival: successful 2025 season
  • Portland's new council president wants to focus
  • PPS Moves Forward on Seismic Retrofits — Despite Pushback
  • Woman shot by CBP sentenced for illegal entry