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Oregon Political News

Jurors weigh why top Oregon Labor Bureau manager faced pushback at work: racism or bad boss?

Oregon’s chronic absenteeism rate 1 of nation’s most alarming

Kotek’s Housing Advisory Council Proposes Suspending Tree Codes to Speed Development

Special Report: Oregon prisons lack oversight, critics say, with agency failing to track key data

Wildfires

Maui death toll rises to 93 with 2,200 structures destroyed or damaged

Level 2 ‘Be Set’ evacuation orders issued for Lookout, Bedrock fires

Fire Weather Watch Monday for wide area of Southern Oregon

Oregon Legislative Press Releases

News from the Regions

Portland Area

Portland can ban drinking in public, but not smoking meth or fentanyl. Oregon law is to blame.

These are Portland’s top public elementary schools for 2023-24

Extreme heat emergency declared, cooling centers opened in Portland, Gresham

Salem Area

Debate over large west Salem development continues

Salem residents will get to vote on payroll tax in November

Central Oregon Area

Umatilla County Fair attendance up for 2023

Easterday family gives up attempt to resurrect controversial Oregon mega dairy

West Nile virus detected in Umatilla County

Most post offices around Eastern Oregon feeling staffing strain

Albany/Corvallis Area

Too hot? Here’s where to cool off in Linn and Benton counties

GAPS school board faces ethics complaints

Albany residents: Construction workers came on to property without notice

Eugene Area

On the Agenda: Cottage Grove City Manager Applications

Roseburg Area

UCC to offer 12 new degree and certification programs this fall

Medford Area

School’s in for summer

Study to look at South Stage Road I-5 overpass or interchange

Phoenix annexes over 350 acres for ‘South Valley employment zone’ development

Klamath Falls Area

Policing the Urban Growth Boundary

Green light? City considers removing downtown signals when study ends Aug. 30

Tribes call for feds to ban chemical in car tires that is linked to salmon deaths

National News

Attorney General Merrick Garland appoints a special counsel in the Hunter Biden probe

National Election News

James Rosen: Pence brandishes ‘Too Honest’ barb as badge of honor

Business

Cascades shuts down Oregon plant, lays off 72

Providence nurses tally big wins in tentative contract agreement

Environment / Energy News

Transmission: The looming threat to PNW climate goals, power supply

Tech breakthrough could boost states’ use of geothermal power

Opinion

Portland Area

Editorial: A pivotal moment in Multnomah County’s homelessness approach

Opinion: Oregon’s sketchy framework for psilocybin program portends a new implementation disaster

Opinion: Pac-12 defections deliver a blow to the soul of college athletics

Central Oregon Area

Other views: Feds should spark prescribed burns on federal lands to mitigate extreme fire seasons

Other views: Let’s work together to keep our drinking water safe

Our view: Time running out on Measure 110 experiment

Medford Area

Editorial: Turns out the recall deception playbook is used elsewhere

OTHER VIEWS: What to model and what not to in Oregon’s opioid fight

GUEST COLUMN: Repeal Measure 110 for a safer Jackson County

OUR VIEW: Ducks high-tail it east, upending college sports landscape we knew

GUEST COLUMN: Times’ editorial did disservice to nurse practitioners

Southern Oregon Coast

Guest Column: A Fair Day

Guest Column: Trying to avoid a strike