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December 31, 2025
  • Gas tax referendum qualifies for ballot
  • 1,100 immigration arrests in 2025
  • Oregon Somalis reacts to Minnesota fraud
  • 7 conservative wins in Oregon in 2025
  • Mom forced to unearth son in double-booked grave
  • Online voter registration to include last 4 of SSN#
  • Oregon AG fights gift card fraud
  • Wyden questions Trump on real estate deal
  • Last Day to help Watchdog -- Tax Credit, Charitble
  • How Portland drug queen built homeless kingdom from trash
  • Teen's 1994 murder at center of police board pick
  • Opportunities emerge from Oregon Seed Council trade trip to China
  • Humane Society rescues 100 animals from overwhelmed breeder near Salem
  • Portland office sales will drive millions in property tax losses
  • Contract talks stall in Klamath Falls — another education labor impasse unfold
  • Reporting on Jefferson HS requires wading into taboo topics
  • Open seat: Pacific Fishery Management Council
    • December 30, 2025
  • Victory! Oregon Bar can't compel lawyers' speech
  • Sec-State text seen as scam
  • 20 top affordable cities to buy a house
  • ODOT drops speed to 5 mph (Hwy 26 bump grows)
  • Petition tops quarter million on final turn in
  • Oregon: 1st to offer $$ to striking public workers
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  • Intel picks Trump aide to top post.
  • OR, WA to receive $50B for rural health care access
  • After devastating wildfires, watersheds surprisingly thick with fish and amphibians
  • Outrage after Oregon city appoints convicted killer to police oversight panel
  • Departing city administrator Mike Jordan wants Portland to figure it out
  • judge decides grave remains will be removed, in unusual case
  • McMenamins Dry January Fest highlights surge in non-alcoholic trend
  • Storage 4 Less says city order for 2 fire hydrants will cost $300K+
  • Young people in Oregon raise money to find treatments for childhood cancer
  • So far, 'no downside' to Oregon's new school cell phone ban
    • December 29, 2025
  • Oregon quietly loosens voter registration rules days before Christmas
  • Minimum wage climbs again in 2026, different for Portland and S. Oregon
  • Oregon's year of layoffs: 2025's historic job cuts are shaking the state's economy
  • WSJ: Oregon punishes the Freedom Foundation
  • Nominees for 2025 tax awards (worst politician, scandal, waste)
  • Turmoil in 2025 lays bare our challenges, opportunities
  • Alaska Airlines adds flights from PDX
  • Health care industry expected to see Oregon's greatest job growth over next decade
  • InRoads Credit Union awards $25K in grants to 11 Columbia County businesses
  • La Fuente Market: Oregon farmer opens nose-to-tail food hub
  • Learn about the Santiam Pass Ski Lodge restoration
  • Oregon parks host free guided hikes on New Year's Day
  • Oregon Wine Board and renewed farm bill negotiations
  • Portland blames problems on Measure 5 tax limits
  • The Peacock Papers provided a window into Portland's new balance of power
  • The saddest Portland restaurants closures of 2025