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August 11, 2025
  • What's driving Portland's gun voilence plunge
  • How much every Metro employee got paid
  • Ethics commission pursues legislative action on meetings
  • New $10 park fee joins $20 paddle-board fee
  • CEO paid 1,300xs what workers make

  • Coast Guard assists disabled fishing vessel
  • How the ODF is using drones to battle wildfires
  • Wyden at 76: steady hand or time for change in Oregon's senate seat?
  • Tina Kotek's Energy Policy: Whichever Way the Wind Blows
  • Oregon recycling Modernization Act update
  • Bridge Pedal sets off on coast-to-coast Alzheimer's awareness ride
  • Cooling shelters opening in Southern Oregon ahead of high temperatures
  • Heat doesn't deter race fans. Power, Palou at Portland IndyCar
  • Manufactured-home park residents get some relief from 2025 rent-cap bill
  • Salem police offers alternative hiring pathway without Civil Service exam
  • See lantern return to historic Yaquina Bay Lighthouse on Oregon Coast
  • Volunteers needed to collect ash tree seed to help against pest
  • Grant funding will allow Salem to expand workforce development programming
  • OHSU invites legislators to tour Primate Center amid pressure to close
  • August 10, 2025
  • Sen. Wyden plans to re-run, Dems debate change
  • Oregon quietly ends Medicaid $$ for ex-prisoners
  • Extreme heat alert: Sun. to Tues. (103)
  • Kotek's unprocessed offenders kidnaps girl, 11
  • Intel CEO responds to criticisms
  • ICE arrests Guatemalan workers heading to harvest berries
  • Trump demands Intel CEO to resign
  • Tax subsidized data center, politicians at center of corruption case
  • West Nile virus so far confined to Malheur Coy, no positive tests in Baker Co
  • Bend taking its time on plans for massive new City Hall
  • Let Us Paddle holds float protest against boating permit law at Foster Lake
  • North Plains train derailment disrupts Garlic Festival traffic
  • PacifiCorp opens new wildfire intelligence center in Medford  
  • Portland city council's progressive caucus texted about police during hearings
  • August 09, 2025
  • Intel CEO responds to criticisms
  • Kotek ODOT funding includes gas tax, fee hikes, payroll tax
  • Does Kotek have the votes to pass transportation package?
  • Oregon's farms and land-use advocates square off over farmstand rules
  • Kotek vetoes cattle preg check bill
  • Lars Larson: Daycare that costs $92k per kid in taxpayer cash?
  • Ethics commission pursues legislative action, revision on meetings policy
  • Examining the causes and impacts of Oregon's declining fertility rate
  • Mortgage rates fall to 10 month low, offering relief for Portland buyers
  • Mysterious Liquor sales ballot measure crosses another threshold
  • New law strengthens oversight of residential care facilities in Oregon
  • Oregon Medicaid insurer dropping non-contracted behavior health providers
  • Providence to lay off 128 Oregon workers as cost-cutting continues
  • Business-led group wants to ban new homeless services in downtown Pendleton
  • Oregon hydropower lawsuit tossed
  • Portland, to pay $3.75M to estate of unarmed man fatally shot by police
  • 5 illegal tow operations busted
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