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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
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