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July 01, 2025
  • 2 Chinese nationals from Oregon arrested for spying on US Navy
  • ODOT layoffs, cuts coming
  • Oregon wine: first sales decline since 2009
  • Oregon among bottom states for home flipping
  • Chart: lots of people leaving blue states
  • What happens now with ODOT?
  • Lawmakers pass gov's groundwater bill, but with defections
  • UofO finds 4-day weeks may not help
  • GOP block bill to prevent fed overreach with National Guard
  • Kotek criticizes lawmakers for ending 2 days early
  • Lars Larson: Our mayor's riot moment
  • Sen. Bonham: Hydropower makes a comeback
  • Kotek touts successes around housing
  • Lawmakers approve changes to permitting rules after KATU investigation
  • Public invited to weigh in on Southern Oregon's economic future
  • 1 list to rule them all, Oregon unifies its recycling rules
  • Oregon Attorney General to host local town hall
  • Portland fire chief finalist accepted city job offer, then turned it down
  • Portland gets closer to settling on a parks levy for Nov. ballot
  • Timberline Lodge faces 'challenging' future after liability bill fails
  • Oregon lawmakers approve $137.5M in state bonds for PSU arts complex
  • Bentz: Public lands sale bill not right for budget bill
    • June 30, 2025
  • Gun bill heads to governor's desk
  • Practical guidance for understanding SB426
  • What bills died in the Legislature?
  • Oregon minimum wage 35-cent hike ‘not anything'
  • 5 Kotek setbacks (beyond gas tax defeat)
  • Proposal to sell Oregon public land pulled from GOP bill
  • Miss Oregon 2025 crowned in Seaside
  • Oregon gas prices surge
  • Lars Larson: Watching Democrats fight over taxes
  • Editorial: Welcome reduction in landowners' bills for wildfire protection
  • 9 waste projects funded at midnight hour of legislature
  • Readers respond to governor's critique of Preschool for All
  • These changes are coming for investor-owned utilities in Oregon
  • Maupin reservoir bursts, leaving some residents without water
  • New secure residential treatment facility in Salem aims to bring hope
  • PPS audit on bond projects finds delays, overspending
  • Oregon DA warns of scam calls that threaten jury duty fines
    • June 29, 2025
  • Kotek blasts GOP, eyes Special Session for ODOT
  • AG Bondi, Oregon senator spar
  • See who got $$$ in 11th hour spending bills
  • Rep. Smith faces ethics inquiry on pay raise
  • Rep. Yunker: Xmas Tree (omnibus) bill filled with questionable $$
  • Disgraced CEO attacks WashCo Chair, scandal grows
  • Legislative Ag update
  • RVTD might cut 2/3rds of bus routes, 82 lay offs,
  • Controversial Willamette Falls funding proceeds
  • Lawmakers nix proposal to delay campaign finance limits for years after backlash
  • No Gas Hikes PAC on transportation tax defeat
  • Rep. Wright: we won on several fronts
  • Hundreds join Deschutes River cleanup to remove trash
  • PGE wants to add solar to troubled wind farm instead of replacing turbines
  • Polar Fire in Klamath Co prompting Level 3 (GO NOW) Evacuations
  • Public Notice: Comment period open on Salem housing plan
  • Oregon Charter Academy marks 2 decades. Graduates Class of 2025
  • Oregon student selected as 2025 Distinguished Young Woman