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June 25, 2025
  • Late session farm estate tax revisions
  • Minimum wage will rise on July 1
  • Dozens of flights into PDX dropped
  • Late bill gives lawmakers control of ballot language
  • Mass chaos in final 100 hours of session
  • ICE detains Iranian man on his way to gym
  • Lawmakers ambush of preschool tax gives Kotek nuclear option
  • Protesters gather for anti-ICE ‘Block Party'
  • $122M Google tax failed to pass (SB686)
  • Big hotel tax to fund animals (HB 2977 hearing)
  • Central Oregon door factory will shut down, lay off more than 180
  • Kotek signs jobless $$ for strikers (SB 916)
  • Majority oppose $15B tax hike in HB 2025 poll shows
  • New Oregon law hides officials' personal info amid escalating threats
  • Oregon House passes bill to repeal statewide wildfire hazard map
  • Oregon Wildfire Hazard Map repealed by legislature
  • Oregon's first measles case confirmed in Multnomah County
  • Tension ramps up as Legislature session winds down
  • Oregon couple sues Union Pacific over devastating Rowena Fire
    • June 24, 2025
  • Poll: voters not worried about roads, don't want $14B tax
  • Gorsek, Wagner removed from key committee, Dems struggle
  • Sen. Bonham: Dutch Bros ‘pushed out' of Oregon
  • Rep Drazan: tax threats, Sen Gorsek's outburst
  • Some House GOP boycott session after transportation debate
  • 11th-hour amendment to end preschool tax
  • House Oks nicotine tax to fund wildfire
  • Interview: Rep Elmer on the legislature
  • Bill allowing foreign physicians to get provisional licenses passes Senate
  • Calls for Sen Gorsek to be censured
  • Deschutes sheriff submits resignation as recall attempt launches
  • Lawmakers pass $2.6 billion housing budget bill
  • WashCo considers 19-cent public safety levy increase for Nov. ballot
  • City Council strikes down Portland children's levy grants
  • Columbia Co Sheriff: Boating safety funding in ‘dire straits' due to sanctuary status
  • Portland appoints 21 members, six alternates to new police oversight board
  • Portlander to testify before Congress on behalf of fallen service members
  • U.S. Senate passes bill to reauthorize funding for rural schools
  • UO's blocking of Portland professor on Twitter came with a $700K price tag
    • June 23, 2025
  • GOP Governor candidate gets first big check
  • Editorial: Uninspiring response to decades-old crisis
  • Oregonian editor: Future of paper in changing times
  • Oregon Teslas down 17%
  • $2B gas tax up for vote. Call your representative now!
  • Oregon lawmakers react to Iran airstrikes
  • Promised Medical $$ transparency. Falling short
  • 32 Fourth of July fireworks shows, events in Oregon
  • Intra-Democrat fight during gas tax hearing
  • Some fish around Bonneville Dam remain unsafe to eat
  • Study shows Oregon ranked 14th lowest in US for workers' comp rates
  • A closer look at the proposed pay raise for Ashland city employees
  • Editorial: Did Bend oppose housing bill?
  • Exchange Street campers focus ahead of exclusion ban Astoria council vote
  • Fresh layoffs leave Portland Tribune's newsroom nearly empty
  • Salem city councilors vote Monday on levy oversight committee, budget
  • Jefferson HS's bleak enrollment forecast may end school choice for 2K area students
  • 1-day retail theft sting = 34 arrests, 26 outstanding warrants