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October 03, 2025
  • Gov. Kotek slams gas tax repeal effort
  • Republican lawmakers to put tax hikes on ballot
  • Businesses signs: Please don't vandalize us
  • Comfortably homeless for 26 years
  • Fed shutdown to affect 10k workers in OR
  • Feds blame ‘cruel activists' troops in Portland
  • House Republicans elect new leader — Drazan seeks Senate post
  • Judge recuses from Trump troop case — married to Rep. Bonamici
  • Lars: Merkley lying on National Guard
  • Multnomah County receives opioid settlement
  • ODOT behind on hiring for winter
  • Readers respond: Let ICE do their work
  • Wilson: yawning chasm in city's self perception
    • October 02, 2025
  • Sen. Starr announces plan to refer gas tax
  • US sues 4 counties over immigration
  • OR tightens SNAP eligibility — complies with Big Beautiful Bill
  • ‘Emergency' World Naked Bike Ride — to fight Trump
  • Major Portland budget gaps cause questions
  • Portlanders see need for Trump's mobilization
  • DeSpain announces run for Congress #4
  • Elmer elected new House GOP Leader
  • Fed services in OR available in shutdown
  • Judge rules immigrants in WA can get hearings
  • Kotek says Trump troops cost up to $10M
  • Marion Co public defenders sue OR
  • Merkley on shutdown, health care, authoritarianism
  • Multnomah Co increases library security
  • National Guard deployment pushed into weekend
  • Poll: more say political violence necessary
  • Portland hits pause on parking change
  • Rent By Numbers: Portland Rental Facts
  • Rent cap confusion: fumbled announcement
  • Residents demand more resources — for crime reduction near Dawson Park
  • The Fund for PPS Underperforms Former Model
  • Washington's minimum wage to top $17 in 2026
  • Williams will stay on as ClackCo counsel
    • October 01, 2025
  • Oregon braces for gov't shutdown, 'Many people will be harmed'
  • ‘Like World War II’: Trump talks Portland
  • Kotek signs Climate Resilience Investment Act
  • Fed. probes Oregon in faith-based push over LGBTQ+ foster rule
  • Internet comedy roasts “peaceful” Portland
  • Federal SNAP changes in Oregon could impact 313K residents
  • Editorial: The unintended consequence of troops in Portland
  • Lars Larson: Our tone deaf Governor Kotek
  • E. Oregon regional care organization will stay in Oregon Health Plan
  • Land use ruling approves home sites in Oregon big game habitat
  • C. Oregon Fire Chiefs' Association to open debris burning Wednesday
  • Capitol rally to honor Charlie Kirk. Sat. 10/4
  • DEQ again fines Port of Morrow for wastewater violations
  • Razor clamming returns to North Oregon beaches Wednesday
  • Tell us, what's highest gas price you've seen?
  • What messages we found at “peaceful” ICE protest
  • Oregon researchers turn human skin cells into eggs, but not yet usable ones
  • Breast cancer fundraising scheme
  • Yamhill Co VFW quartermaster sentenced to 2 years for embezzling $1.7M