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August 07, 2025
  • Gateway's demise signals frustrations in E. Portland
  • Trouble in our State's women's prison
  • $1.8 million stolen from carbon credits program
  • Constitution Party challenges voter rolls
  • Effort to Index Preschool for All Tax Hits Snags
  • Gerrymandering depends on eye of beholder
  • Hotels dump mattresses on street for homeless
  • Kotek signs 4 new mental health bills
  • Lawmaker calls for better disaster preparedness
  • Mayor met with NBA commish to talk Trail Blazers
  • Message thread of progressive Portland councilors
  • New day centers for homeless in Portland
  • Oregon judge blocks more Trump cuts
  • Portland NAACP blasts mayor over DEI
  • PPS superintendent talks AI with Kaepernick
  • PSU change in DEI has 'nothing to do' with Trump
  • Rockwood grant application will not be disclosed
  • State workers get pay raise, more remote work
  • Trump cancels Idaho wind farm
  • Vega Pederson addresses Preschool for All scandal
    • August 06, 2025
  • ‘Eradicate these harmful policies': Portland and Oregon on new sanctuary list
  • Oregon has highest recall effort per capita of any state in ‘24. 2 so far in ‘25
  • Managers of Oregon's $100B pension fund ignored the experts. And lost big.
  • Oregon must join Food Stamp junk-food ban
  • Editorial: What happens if Oregon's special session goes sideways
  • Acupuncturists V. physical therapist: Kotek considers bill veto
  • Fire map: America ablaze
  • Kotek, defense commission seek expansion of Oregon-run trial defense team
  • MultCo alert system will ping up to 1 million cellphones Aug. 14
  • Oregon invests $160 million in affordable housing
  • Plastics recycling law sparks legal challenge from wholesalers
  • What the Trump rollback means for renewable energy jobs in Oregon
  • Wyden: $22M for forest, tribal access
  • Wyden: Stop stingray phone surveillance w/o warrant
  • Former church becomes shelter
  • New playground torched. Portland's summer of arson
  • Oregon Metro awards Burnside Bridge project $10M
  • 5 arrested for allegedly posing as FBI agents to rob Oregon shipping company
    • August 05, 2025
  • Coverage dropped for risky surgery (except gender care)
  • "dope swallow" claim is used to cheat police
  • Farm store explosion hits local Wilco
  • Think of this Nordstrom photo on closing key store
  • 'She's not protecting our well-being':Kotek recall
  • Oregon $1.8M grants to 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
  • Gov. declares drought -- Union, Morrow
  • Sen. Merkley announces 2026 re-election campaign
  • Local Ore. stations face uncertainty following Fed. public broadcasting cuts
  • Oregon Army National Guard gets $12M for machine gun range in Boardman
  • 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