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October 17, 2025
  • Hundreds of prisoners released early
  • 2nd man points laser at helicopter
  • Kotek taxes families away from parks, outdoors
  • Audit skewers Portland on parks
  • Videos: ICE detaining man, residents confronting
  • Gordon's Fireplace property sold in auction
  • Half of OR counties have nothing on the ballot
  • Lars: Media ignores Wyden lawsuit
  • Legacy to stop services at Portland urgent cares
  • Non-citizen among 16 that stole $2.4M
  • OR, WA sue EPA to keep $7B Solar
  • Portland State University violated labor law
  • PPS Memo: count development hours as instruction
  • Rabbit mascot kicks gas bomb at agents
  • Renovations to save Tigard affordable complex
  • Sen. Starr, Rep. Elmer call out Kotek delay
  • The Historical Context of Martin v. Mott
  • Travel Oregon: No-Bid Contract to Board Member
  • Washington Co to vote on library tax
    • October 16, 2025
  • OR sues over Snake, Columbia dams
  • Portland to bolster city's sanctuary status
  • Gas Tax Referral Campaign Kicks Off
  • Speed cameras funnel overtime $$ to budgets
  • Ballots go out in OR for next month's election
  • Endorsement: No on flawed parks levy
  • Accountability Committee Warns PPS Is Overbuilding
  • Affording housing project in Lake Oswego
  • Aloha man arrested for aiming laser at helicopter
  • Audit: 1 in 5 calls to MultCo not returned
  • Clark Co resolution decries assassination of Charlie Kirk
  • Democratic governors form public health alliance
  • DOI revokes $2.1M for Klamath R restoration
  • Hillsboro couple blocks CBP van
  • Judge extends block of Nat. Guard deployment
  • Judge forces DOJ to work on Portland police — requested delay due to shutdown
  • Lake Oswego voters to decide $245M school bond
  • Landlord challenges Portland over ICE permit
  • OR joins suit challenging $14B HP merger
  • OR senators tell Noem to remove airport videos
  • Oregon NFIB report: First decline in 3 months
  • Portland ICE closed for 22 days this summer
  • Portland parks imperiled by poor management
  • Protesters wearing inflatable animal costumes
  • Providence Closing Occupational Health Clinics
  • Vancouver City Councilor ethics complaint
    • October 15, 2025
  • Kotek is in no rush to sign her own gas tax bill
  • Roseburg students walk out over locker-room uproar
  • Oregon get 'F' in youth sex trafficking report card
  • Senator removal paves way for Trump Tax Cut theft
  • Ex-Mayor calls for Hoy's ‘immediate' resignation
  • Oregon Dems give $1.5B in free health care to illegal immigrants state-wide
  • Landlord challenges city finding that Portland ICE officials violated permit
  • Lars Larson: Dems delay to deny voters a voice…while proclaiming “democracy”!?
  • Members of Oregon National Guard head to Texas border
  • Oregon gas prices continue to decline as Autumn sets In
  • Oregon, SW Washington Kaiser Permanente health care workers strike
  • State's drug price affordability board has a new top staffer
  • Con. Bonamici: 3 bipartisan bills to increase access to jobs
  • Firefighters to begin pile burning in Central Oregon forests this week
  • Hermiston stopped testing drinking water after forever chemicals were found
  • Phil Knight honored by Nike, New World Headquarters name
  • Port of Arlington Faces Dissolution
  • C. Oregonians mark National Bullying Prevention Month