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August 05, 2025
  • 'She's not protecting our well-being': Chief Kotek recall petitioner
  • Oregon drops Medicaid coverage for risky surgery except cases of ‘gender affirmation'
  • Oregon awards $1.8M in grants to help people enroll in private insurance
  • Lawmakers expand veteran preference to National Guard
  • Editorial: Oregon's public defense shift needs numbers to back it up
  • Lars Larson: Portland, Seattle's crime-fighting fail
  • ClackCo: $250K to departing lawyer despite contract calling for less
  • Governor declares drought in Union and Morrow counties
  • Sen. Merkley announces 2026 re-election campaign
  • Farm store explosion hits local Wilco
  • Local Ore. stations face uncertainty following Fed. public broadcasting cuts
  • Oregon Army National Guard gets $12M for machine gun range in Boardman
  • Think of this photo on news of Nordstrom closing key store
  • Trimet to slash $300M, drop services
  • Governor made deal with Nvidia to get AI education in Oregon schools
  • Questions persist about low enrollment at a subsidized preschool
  • Persons of interest sought after repeat salmon hatchery thefts
  • Psilocybin pioneer fined for breaking rules he helped establish
    • August 04, 2025
  • Politics is not a ‘safe space'
  • Sec-State opens transit investigation
  • S.O. University declares financial crisis
  • Oregon launches streamlined recycling statewide
  • 7 dire economic warnings for Oregon
  • Opinion: ODOT's crisis is a spending problem, not a revenue problem
  • 11 good, bad, unusual bills passed in 2025 Legislature
  • Oregon Guard regiment returns home from deployed to Middle East
  • State parks adjusting fees, camping rates
  • Disney and a trademark infringement Portland Pickle
  • 5 years after devastating fire, Blue River still trying to rebuild
  • Blanchet House to open new women's shelter in Pearl District
  • Metro's ballooning bond for road diets
  • Pendleton UAS Test Range to launch military drone operations courses
  • Severe and isolated dry thunderstorms form in C. and E. Oregon
  • Columbia Sportswear sues Columbia University
  • What to know about changes to student loans for Oregon borrowers
    • August 03, 2025
  • Oregon Youth Authority increases investigative staff to fix complaint backlog
  • Swastikas drawn on Oregon Jewish Museum
  • Judge in PacifiCorp trials wants to quadruple court's pace. — Victims of the 2020 fires still wait
  • BOEM rescinds designated Wind Energy Areas
  • I just had the best TSA walk-thru since before 2001 (Thanks Trump)
  • Alaska Airlines adds routes from Redmond Airport to Burbank, California
  • BLM timber sales in Oregon bring in nearly $13.5M
  • Investigation continues into conduct issues at Clatsop DA office
  • McMenamins offering new THC-infused beverages at Oregon locations
  • Morrow County Courthouse project receives $5M in state funding
  • News updates from Sen. Suzanne Weber
  • Oregon judge gives first "certificate of innocence" for wrongful conviction
  • Deschutes River flow to be reduced as search continues for Dillon Falls victim
  • Oregon tribe threatens legal action over resort water rights
  • Portland's new big shelter idea is charity run afoul
  • SOU President unveils budget plan to staff and students
  • Tigard-Tualatin schools cracking down on student cell phone use
  • Gold bar scam continues to hit Oregonians