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July 26, 2025
  • Kotek pauses farm stand rule after blowback
  • Feds release millions to Oregon schools
  • Oregon broadens natural resource estate tax exemption
  • Wildfire survivors to pay federal taxes on settlements
  • Thief with anti-cop forehead tattoo easily found
  • Senate GOP Leader criticizes Governor's special session call
  • ODOT ransportation director overhauls leadership structure amid funding crisis
  • Trump's homelessness exec. order, divided Oregon leaders' response
  • $2.1M to projects that strengthen food supply chain
  • Director of Oregon Human Services Department to retire this fall
  • New law supports small businesses
  • Oregon Blueberries: Fresh, flavorful, major economic force
  • Oregon Parks and Recreation launches survey to assess public priorities
  • 3 more counties request state drought emergency declarations
  • Ashland officials and labor union reach tentative agreement
  • Carpenter Media axes 2 more newspapers in Clackamas Co.
  • Trump administration investigating ODE over transgender athlete policy
  • Police seek hit-run suspect who fled country
    • July 25, 2025
  • $15M in legal aid for immigrants
  • Mass Intel layoffs to hit Oregon hard
  • Sheriff stripped of certification for life
  • Lars Larson: Kotek is faking it
  • Kotek demands plan from Employment Dept
  • Rose Quarter freeway $1.5B budget gap
  • More suits filed against Oregon Youth Authority
  • Advisory Group on Indexing Preschool for All Tax
  • Ethics commission investigates housing adviser
  • MetroPaint Recycling Program to Shutter
  • New homeless shelter in SW Portland
  • New law to bring climate education to OR students
  • New statewide homeless shelter system
  • NW politicians call for ban on ICE masks
  • OR DHS head to retire in October
  • Readers respond: Portland should fix roads first
  • Rep. Drazan: ODOT, budget update
  • State park funding running short
    • July 24, 2025
  • Kotek lays out 6-cent gas tax hike
  • Inside the troubled Snake River prison
  • $3M in waste, fraud in Preschool Promise
  • TriMet: Sweeping service cuts
  • Kotek rule a big threat to farm stands
  • SOS Refers Preschool Providers to OR DOJ
  • Audit: OR wasted $1.4M in preschool money
  • Benton Co. center fights mental health crisis
  • BOLI warns that threats to call ICE are illegal
  • Bonham: Kotek's new session has less transparency
  • Columbia Sportswear Sues Columbia University
  • Deihl: Protect Agritourism, Small Farms
  • Ex-Kotek staffers start political consulting firm
  • Homeless sign used to block city cleaners
  • Immigration arrests surge in Washington
  • Internal investigation at Oregon Republican Party
  • Lender takes possession of downtown tower
  • Mannix files measures on pretrial release, estate tax
  • OR pension managers earn more even with losses
  • PAT President Eyes Oregon Legislature
  • PPS ‘mom takeover' and a brewing storm
  • Readers respond: Trump's bill good for forests
  • Washingto Co. to comply with Trump DEI order
  • What a housing accountability office means for Oregon
  • Yunker: Kotek road plan a “tax grab, not a solution”