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December 11, 2025
  • Comedy Central on naked bike ride protest
  • Unemployment hits 5.2% — +1% from last year
  • Consequences of overbuilding High Schools
  • Sen. Brock-Smith: School funding good news
  • Wyden, Merkley to save the hemp industry
  • WA granted hundreds of CDLs to noncitizens
  • Beaverton teacher helps decorate White House for Christmas
  • Bill puts squeeze on speculative ticketers
  • Detroit Lake drawdown creates rising concerns
  • Feds deny endangered species protection for 2 salmon
  • Fewer kids move goalposts for Preschool for All
  • Harney Basin is at a crossroads in water crisis
  • How Can 955 Home Forward Units Sit Empty?
  • Lars: Tutoring results on a budget
  • Mississippi Reading Turnaround: Lessons for OR
  • Nicole's story: If gas tax passes, I'll be living in my car
  • OR college grads earn less than peers with no degree
  • OR lawmaker likely broke state ethics law
  • Proposal for $21M in unspent housing funds
  • Tigard personal information exposed in breach
  • VIDEO: Mult. Falls rages after atmospheric river
    • December 10, 2025
  • Merkley, 9 Dem senators move to block Trump $1 coins
  • Portland sued for $10M after arrest at ICE
  • Coldest Oregon Decembers since 1895 List
  • Election results: Dire warning for GOP … and some Dems
  • Teens who protested trans athlete settle lawsuit
  • 2 Salem councilors settle ethics case
  • Lawmakers: liability waivers for recreational activities
  • Kotek's roadmap 3 years too late
  • Call to review governor's tribal exchange
  • Oregon's fuel emergency ends as Olympic resumes full operation
  • Congress approves Secure Rural Schools funding critical to rural Northwest counties
  • Wake up people! Homeless aren't eating your donated food
  • Commercial bus service returning to Baker County, Eastern Oregon
  • Housing advisor violated conflict of interest law should get warning letter
  • Jefferson Co has new ordinance on Accessory Dwelling Units
  • Kotek appoints judge to the Douglas Co Circuit Court
  • Deaf woman sues Providence over staff masking, lack of communication
  • After volatile public meeting, Portland Public School Board offers a joint mea culpa
    • December 09, 2025
  • Congress #5 shifts away from 'toss-up'
  • Leaders: Economy isn't working for most
  • 20 drug-endangered children cases dropped
  • Lars Larson: Oregon floods have political lesson
  • ODOT continues hiring winter positions amid limbo
  • Student ICE protests
  • BOLI Audit: Deep mismanagement, years of delayed justice
  • Leaders pledge to make the state more business-friendly, few specifics
  • A pricey new plan aims to keep Oregon's foster kids out of hotels
  • Kotek, lawmakers call for streamlined permit, land use rules
  • More EV fast-charging stations coming to Central and Eastern Oregon
  • State fined $1.4M for patient intake delays at Oregon State Hospital
  • Surprisingly, support among unions to stop gas tax
  • Wyden: Bill to help healthcare labor shortage
  • Coffin Butte Landfill expansion opponents start Oregon LUBA appeal
  • Mayor: double city's business tax exemption
  • ODOT review blasts Umpqua Transit's management and hiring practices
  • Salvation Army packs 1,700 holiday food boxes for Portland families in need
  • Portland Public Schools' risky real estate gamble