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December 06, 2025
  • Oregon's student literacy crisis
  • Lawmakers grapple with economic confusion
  • OEA Union training “protect kids from ICE”
  • Homeless squatter turns on pastor who helped
  • Referendum petition passes 180,000 signatures.
  • Capital Chatter: Kotek's race may be a Drazan rematch
  • Homeless camp removed from former Assembly Brewing site
  • Hood River bridge replacement gets final federal approval
  • Hospitals confront a precarious financial crossroads
  • PGE, Tillamook Creamery accused of ‘massive' groundwater pollution
  • Portland's DA balked at charging federal agents, then AG Rayfield stepped in
  • Rescue helicopter will return, remain in Newport, Oregon's US senators say 
  • Nearly five years in and Powell case drags on, no end in site
  • Oregon Capitol nears a full open after decade-long construction project
  • Portland reverses planned rent hikes at two buildings as apartments sit empty
  • Rowena wildfire debris clean-up finally gets funding, 3 months after Kotek's promise
  • Ashland hospital to shift obstetrics and birthing services
  • Cuts halt Portland-ODOT partnership for homeless camps
    • December 05, 2025
  • Kotek announces 2026 reelection bid
  • Warning: More highway campsites as ODOT $$ drops
  • Trade group: 2025 recycling law is too expensive
  • Court fines lawyer $2,000 for AI errors
  • Kotek calls herself anti-toll in new Governor run
  • OPB Politics now: Kotek run, homeless, taxes
  • 14 Woodburn farmworkers, landscapers detained
  • Gas tax repeal well over double the needed signatures
  • Sen. Wyden: Newport helicopter returned after lawsuit
  • AG makes his living suing Trump
  • Oregon Supreme Ct. Narrows Definition of “Weapon.”
  • Growers find little good news in Oregon wheat market
  • Oregon Hospital Retreats Draw Concerns and Raise Questions
  • Portlanders spend nearly two days in traffic, city ranks 25th in U.S. for gridlock
  • Oregon, Wasco County finally secure state-funded plan to finish Rowena Fire cleanup
  • Gresham City Council debates restrictions on emergency homeless shelter sites