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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
    • 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