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June 26, 2025
  • Democrats unveil new road funding plan, as time runs short
  • Metro president: Portland in critical condition
  • Washington Co. addresses DEI resolution
  • The perilous (Dem) supermajority
  • Bentz opposes federal land sales
  • $2B gas tax bill hearing Thursday
  • Neighbors upset over Pearl District shelter
  • Senate overrides veto of foster children bill
  • AG affirms hospital emergency abortion duty
  • Bill to make Big Tech pay local news dies
  • Construction to resume on Bull Run treatment plant
  • County defends tuition-free universal preschool
  • George Washington statue returned … to London
  • Kotek signs bill for unemployment pay for strikers
  • Lawmakers approve limits on utility rate hikes
  • Lender Seeks Foreclosure on Prominent Developer — Downtown Real Estate Crisis Deepens
  • Mental health treatment bill moves forward
  • Minimum wage rises again in July
  • MultCo: 'groundbreaking' partnership with OHSU-PSU
  • MultCo: sobering services without police
  • NTSB blames systemic failures for door plug blowout
  • OR foster parent recruiters use AI to match families
  • OR joins states suing Trump admin over cuts
  • Oswego Lake closing for July 4th weekend
  • Owens Corning to close Prineville facility
  • Panel will scrutinize the vaccine schedule for kids
  • Portland reverses vote to withhold youth grants
  • Portland Tribune to stop publishing print edition
  • State grant for Willamette Falls stokes tensions
    • June 25, 2025
  • Late session farm estate tax revisions
  • Minimum wage will rise on July 1
  • Dozens of flights into PDX dropped
  • Late bill gives lawmakers control of ballot language
  • Mass chaos in final 100 hours of session
  • ICE detains Iranian man on his way to gym
  • Lawmakers ambush of preschool tax gives Kotek nuclear option
  • Protesters gather for anti-ICE ‘Block Party'
  • $122M Google tax failed to pass (SB686)
  • Big hotel tax to fund animals (HB 2977 hearing)
  • Central Oregon door factory will shut down, lay off more than 180
  • Kotek signs jobless $$ for strikers (SB 916)
  • Majority oppose $15B tax hike in HB 2025 poll shows
  • New Oregon law hides officials' personal info amid escalating threats
  • Oregon House passes bill to repeal statewide wildfire hazard map
  • Oregon Wildfire Hazard Map repealed by legislature
  • Oregon's first measles case confirmed in Multnomah County
  • Tension ramps up as Legislature session winds down
  • Oregon couple sues Union Pacific over devastating Rowena Fire
    • June 24, 2025
  • Poll: voters not worried about roads, don't want $14B tax
  • Gorsek, Wagner removed from key committee, Dems struggle
  • Sen. Bonham: Dutch Bros ‘pushed out' of Oregon
  • Rep Drazan: tax threats, Sen Gorsek's outburst
  • Some House GOP boycott session after transportation debate
  • 11th-hour amendment to end preschool tax
  • House Oks nicotine tax to fund wildfire
  • Interview: Rep Elmer on the legislature
  • Bill allowing foreign physicians to get provisional licenses passes Senate
  • Calls for Sen Gorsek to be censured
  • Deschutes sheriff submits resignation as recall attempt launches
  • Lawmakers pass $2.6 billion housing budget bill
  • WashCo considers 19-cent public safety levy increase for Nov. ballot
  • City Council strikes down Portland children's levy grants
  • Columbia Co Sheriff: Boating safety funding in ‘dire straits' due to sanctuary status
  • Portland appoints 21 members, six alternates to new police oversight board
  • Portlander to testify before Congress on behalf of fallen service members
  • U.S. Senate passes bill to reauthorize funding for rural schools
  • UO's blocking of Portland professor on Twitter came with a $700K price tag