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May 29, 2026
  • Unions slam Kotek's economic council
  • Town rejects data center development
  • Oregon pushes back on Trump mail-in voting order
  • Poll: Kotek 45%, Drazan 44%?
  • 8 floating homes on fire
  • Group seeks to repeal waterway access permit changes
  • OR man guilty on threat to kill US senator
  • Portland School Board Tackles School Closures — equity and resource distribution
  • Gov. candidates unity rally was both sweet and strong
  • 25 days left to return Abolish Death Tax petitions
  • DOJ sues OR, WA over confidential license plates
  • Eugene school budget cuts staff, programs
  • Fed funding for rural maternity care in OR
  • Former Eugene Weekly bookkeeper sentenced
  • PacifiCorp request for emergency rate hike denied
  • Portland train delays have gotten longer, more frequent
  • Safeway, Walmart, Amazon top list of SNAP recipient employers
  • Trump mail voting order stands after judge ruling
  • Vaccination Rates For OR Students Hit New Low
  • Washington GOP putting on best 250 party — so far
  • Western states see deadly overdose surge — as nationwide drug deaths drop
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    May 28, 2026
  • May voter turnout shatters record — thanks to gas tax
  • Inside Providence Health collapse
  • Arts tax increases first time since 2012
  • (shock photo) before-after homeless arrived
  • DMV won't reinstate undercover plates for feds
  • TriMet facing mass layoffs, service reductions
  • Portland passes police mask ban
  • Councilor Morillo's Chief of Staff Files Complaint
  • Feds to decide if Crater Lake newt endangered
  • Hacker sentenced for selling OR gov't network access
  • Head of Portland's civic life office is on leave
  • Lane cuts $5.8 million from shelters, health
  • Lars Larson: School rape cover-up
  • More political vandalism at our parks
  • MultCo releases 'final roadmap' for universal preschool
  • Murmurs: City Council Mulls Campesinos Boulevard
  • Overdose Deaths Plummet but OR Rate Still High
  • PPS Shows Progress in Reading and Slide in Math
  • Readers respond: Sacrifice one university, save rest
  • Salem councilors consider metal detectors at meetings
  • Steady unemployment rate for OR economy
    • May 27, 2026
  • Oregon GOP handed Drazan another shot to beat Kotek. Will this time be different?
  • Following gas tax measure failure, candidates address transportation funding
  • Kotek meets with delegations to strengthen global trade partnerships
  • Oregon GOP push to restore tax breaks blocked by Dems faces ‘steep hill,' backers say
  • A rural Oregon town is going broke. Can it be saved?
  • LA's mansion tax backfires (Oregon should learn)
  • $4B and growing: Embark celebrates 25 years
  • Feds to decide on endangered species protections for Crater Lake newt by October
  • Kotek submits four Union Co state board appointees for senate confirmation
  • Lane Co budget shortfall for homeless services less dire than expected
  • Oregon regulators deny PacifiCorp interim rate increase request
  • Oregon's top health official calls for postpartum care reform
  • Umatilla Co. residents named to state boards
  • Bad blood lingers after sitting Circuit Judge ousted
  • Bend approves plan to expand water plant, waits on Forest Service land transfer
  • Portland leaders launch fast-track renaming of Cesar Chavez Boulevard
  • Civil War Football is Back!
  • Former Gladstone cop faces 20-year sentence in death of estranged wife
  • Gov. released felon linked to 5 deaths