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Oregon News

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Oregon Political & Election News

Oregon voters will be asked whether to give cannabis workers easier route to unionize

Candidates for Attorney General Say Oregon Can Do More to Curb Illicit Massage Parlors

Metropolitan Portland News

Mingus Mapps Elevates Race In His Campaign for Mayor

Central/Eastern Oregon

Lawmakers discuss hopes for legislative session

Cement plant proposed site for producing hydrogen as vehicle fuel

Massive solar projects proposed for thousands of acres of Oregon BLM land

Willamette Valley Area

Anti-Trump billboard prompts political conversations in Corvallis

Southern Oregon

A different approach to affordable housing

Public safety, homelessness on Grants Pass City Council agenda

City of Medford expands exclusion zone, increases camping restrictions

Business News

A Dockworkers Walkout Could Batter the American Economy and Tie Up U.S. Trade

Natural Resource News

Lawsuit filed against Blue and Gold logging project

Health News

Years of work ahead for Oregon to address its lack of behavioral health beds

Cyberattacks plague the health industry. Critics call feds’ response feeble and fractured.

Georgia judge strikes down state’s six-week abortion ban

Energy & Climate Change

The grid is insufficient for renewables. BPA has a $2 billion plan.

International News

Israeli raids against Hezbollah signal a wider ground incursion into Lebanon could come soon

National News

Here’s how Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South

Longshoremen strike deadline looms large over economy and election

National Political & Election News

Trump makes false claims about federal response as he campaigns in area ravaged by Hurricane Helene

Trump slams US response to Helene. His own disaster-response record is marked by politics

What to watch as JD Vance and Tim Walz meet for a vice presidential debate

What is ballot gathering? And what are the laws around this controversial practice?

Taxes: Where do Trump and Harris stand?

Changing demographics and the political calculus of anti-immigrant rhetoric in swing states

Trump seeks to put Harris on back foot with Hurricane Helene response

Pollsters: Don’t be so sure Trump will outperform our surveys

Trump says ‘1 rough hour’ of policing would end crime

Trump fights his old policies in series of flip-flops

‘Just Not Right’: A GOP Governor Confronts Trump’s Lies