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Oregon News

Oregon sending crews to help battle Los Angeles-area wildfires

Oregon state auditors flag ‘minor’ spending issues by Gov. Kotek’s office

Former Oregon AG Rosenblum nets $8,000-a-month pension with return as state senior judge

Cash-strapped Oregon Department of Forestry to treat employees to training session at luxury resort

What’s closed in Oregon on national day of mourning? 

Oregon ban on housing near livestock scrapped under certain conditions

Oregon Political News

Democrats Plan to Raise Taxes Without Republican Support

Oregon lawmakers appeal to Trump administration to stop mass-killing of barred owls, citing cost

Metropolitan Portland News

Portland school board approves districtwide cellphone policy

PPS School Board Refers $1.83 Billion Bond to Portland Voters

Portland Public Schools board reaffirms protections for immigrant students ahead of Trump presidency

Central/Eastern Oregon

Crook County school board ousts superintendent after 6 months

Willamette Valley Area

State senator calls out GAPS, alleges discrimination against special ed students

Southern Oregon

President signs bill into law protecting Klamath Water users

Grants Pass City Council blocks homeless services

Klamath County Fire District No. 3 board under ethics investigation for violating public meeting laws

Sen. Golden calls Wildfire Hazard Map key to avoiding devastating fires

Business News

Congresswoman Dexter sides with nurses, doctors in possible Providence strike

Fed Minutes Suggest Officials Will Hold Rates Steady for Now

Natural Resource News

Biden administration withdraws old-growth forest plan

BLM approves management plan for Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument

Transportation News

Oregon’s New Electric Truck Rule is Disrupting Oregon’s Transportation Industry

Car crashes on Highway 97 in Klamath County claimed numerous lives in recent months

Health News

A record 24 million people now get Obamacare health plans. Will it last under Trump?

Education News

A looming ‘demographic cliff’: Fewer college students and ultimately fewer graduates

Energy & Environment

A second oil and gas lease sale for Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge draws no bids

International News

Canadian leaders say Trump’s talk about Canada becoming the 51st state isn’t funny anymore

Impeached South Korea president uses security forces to hold off efforts to detain him

Mexico’s president hits back at Trump over ‘Gulf of America’: ‘We’re going to call it Mexican America’

National News

Decent, humble and gifted: Jimmy Carter remembered at U.S. Capitol

Wildfires rage out of control in California

Trump blames Newsom for California’s raging wildfires

National Political News

Trump says he will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico. Can he do that?

Why Greenland? Remote but resource-rich island occupies a key position in a warming world

Justice Department says it plans to release only part of special counsel’s Trump report for now

U.S. House GOP kicks off new session with border security push

Trump provokes anxieties with Greenland, Panama Canal military talk

House Republican bill would pave way for Trump to acquire Panama Canal for US

Senators introduce measure making daylight saving time year-round standard

Scoop: Schumer’s plan to fire back at MAGA nominees

Delays fuel GOP blame game over Trump nominees

Opinion

Democrats, not Trump, have been shattering our democratic norms