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Oregon News

Oregon governor to stand by sanctuary law despite Trump-allied group’s warning of ‘serious consequences’

Oregon Political News

Meet the 11 House members, 8 senators newly sworn in to the Oregon Legislature

Oregon Health Authority extends Medicaid benefits to young adults with special needs

Metropolitan Portland News

Vandals break windows, doors at Multnomah County elections office

Portland faces potential $100M budget shortfall, officials say

Parks Bureau Seeks to Double Its Property Tax Levy; Some City Councilors Hesitant

The City Has 865 Unfilled Positions. Will It Eliminate Some to Fill Its Budget Hole?

Central/Eastern Oregon

Pendleton’s cancer center to close doors in coming months

Hermiston sets record for growth, development in 2024

Port of Morrow gets gov’s OK to apply wastewater in winter

Southern Oregon

Douglas County strike team rescues California couple

Medford Estates residents cry foul over skyrocketing water bills

Talent Travel Center opens with full-service truck stop in the works

Healthcare providers in Providence Medford ER reach ‘historic’ tentative contract

Klamath Project organizations to receive $33 million from Bureau of Reclamation for water security programs

Business News

Costco Teamsters vote to authorize nationwide strike

Natural Resource News

Forest coalition files opening brief in appeal of decision to dismiss antitrust suit

Oregon bill would hold landowners liable for farmworker camp violations

International News

Trump signs executive order pausing foreign assistance for 3 months

National News

Vivek Ramaswamy set to depart DOGE

National Political News

Trump keeps TikTok alive in U.S. with executive order to suspend ban

Trump issues sweeping pardon of 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants, including rioters who attacked police

In his inaugural address, Trump rips into the country’s past leaders and makes sweeping promises

Biden pardons Fauci, members of Jan. 6 committee in final hours of administration

Trump rolls back DEI in federal government. What he’ll do next. 

Trump signs flurry of restrictive immigration orders on Day One

Trump signs executive orders on federal workforce, free speech

Trump to declare national energy emergency

Opinion

Editorial: Honeymoon’s already over for new city leaders

Opinion: Don’t buy the baloney. Oregon can both lift up workers and get big jobs done

Editorial: Who’s best to advise the GP City Council on the law?

GUEST COLUMN: A plea for kindness across the divide

GUEST COLUMN: Oregon bill would stem overflow of illegal guns, violent crime