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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
    • June 28, 2025
  • Transportation bill failure, stunning loss for Democrats
  • Middle housing bill passes Legislature
  • AG vows birthright citizenship fight
  • ‘Machine gun' bill passes Legislature
  • We won! Gas tax dies. Hotel tax dies. Google tax dies!
  • Portland eyes nation's biggest Uber tax
  • Session ends, ODOT job cuts imminent
  • Legislature passes Kotek's groundwater bill
  • Rep. Drazan: Session ends, compare the agendas
  • OHSU selects president after nationwide search
  • BLM to hold July 2025 geothermal lease sale
  • Local tribes celebrate sacred food source
  • Session ends with no funding for transportation
  • Bill passes for state's energy assistance program
  • Minimum wage set to increase next week
  • Police officer found justified in shooting
  • Senators attempt to kill proposal for wildlife
  • Firefighters respond to fire in Polk County
  • Oregon Country Fair: it's one of a kind
  • PDX gets its wings as best airport in the US
  • Astoria historic pub celebrates pink shrimp
  • Columbia Farms talks berry season
  • Portland events happening this weekend