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January 15, 2026
  • Feds warn OR on unemployment $$ to strikers
  • How PDX taxes grew since the pandemic
  • Kotek appoints Knopp "Chief Prosperity Officer"
  • Nation's first alcohol-free distillery closes
  • Lars: A politician who fessed up, did right
  • Lawmakers confront ballooning Medicaid
  • Judge to Trump: Hands off voter data
  • Portland to ban feds from wearing masks?
  • Dexter files articles of impeachment on Noem
  • Douglas County unemployment rises to 6.5%
  • Filling vacant storefronts in Portland's Old Town
  • Man helps homeless woman - she loots his bank
  • Man shot by Border Patrol in SE PDX enters plea
  • Murmurs: Rockwood Development Scrapped
  • Nitrate rules for NE OR don't make anyone happy
  • ODOT presentation on funding gap
  • Officials speak out after Trump threatens OR funding
  • OHA seeks funds to pay for fed changes — while cutting care payments
  • OR Senate Dems: bills to resist Trump admin
  • OR sues Trump admin over transgender rules
  • OR utilities way off track on green energy
  • PDX Councilor accused of firings to retaliate for union
  • Portland City Council finally elects president
  • Starr Discusses Gathering 250k Signatures Overnight
  • WA Gov state of the state address
  • What is the purpose of public education?
    • January 14, 2026
  • Lawmakers consider bold tax change for businesses
  • Flawed, biased: lawyers wrote shoddy ballot measure
  • DeRemer subject internal Labor Dept. complaint
  • 9 insights behind referendum 1/4 million miracle
  • Councilor Smith accused of firing staff in retaliation
  • Spotlight: Sen. Bruce Starr
  • Nurses union: Growing pains, contested election
  • What hospitality businesses should know about ICE
  • Media confronts Rep. Bynum, Rep. Dexter on ICE
  • Editorial: Oregon may kill effort to control health care costs
  • About Oregon purging 800,000 voters from the rolls
  • AG lawsuit alleging transgender discrimination
  • Health Authority seeks funds to pay for federal changes while cutting care funding
  • Implementing Trump's tax law to cost Oregon $114M in SNAP investments
  • Trump's farm bailout probably won't cover Pacific Northwest wheat growers losses
  • Hermiston council votes to increase water, sewer rates
  • Recent events could shift the debate over who should run Portland City Council
  • Springfield Board of Education approves midyear teacher cuts
  • Agbiz logic helps reduce risk in long-term farm planning
    • January 13, 2026
  • Pair shot by Border Patrol charged with illegal entry, assaulting federal officer
  • Fox News: Blue state's plan to clean eye-popping # of voters from rolls
  • Rep. Hoyle blasted for calling ICE agent a murderer
  • Editorial: Oregon may change taxes charged when people die
  • Oregon business taxes burden continues to top US average
  • DEQ leaked thousands of people's data, but hasn't told the public
  • Don't count out Chris Dudley
  • Douglas Co Commissioners approve grants, contracts, appoint new Board Chair
  • Groups at odds over proposed nitrate pollution rules for farmers in NE Oregon
  • How Lane Co is working to expand driving instruction access
  • Lawmaker's bill punishes businesses that sell to ICE
  • Lawmakers propose strengthening OR sanctuary laws
  • ‘A 9-gigawatt problem': Surging demand pushes new energy crisis
  • 3 big developments in Border Agent attack
  • Hoy, Nordyke spar on ethics, homelessness during debate
  • Portland to consider tax breaks for $150 million Alaska Airlines hangar
  • Project Turnkey recipient halts affordable housing project in Gresham
  • University of Oregon restructures RA roles, cuts full room-and-board benefits