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Oregon News

Taking Gov. Tina Kotek’s temperature on Oregon’s climate change response

Oregon Political News

DAs to lawmakers: Accused child rapist, killers, drug traffickers released from jail as cases stall with no public defenders

Fees to record documents, register marriages would rise if lawmakers cede to county clerks’ pleas

As AI advances, Oregon lawmakers seek to specify only humans can be nurses

Oregon cities push for infrastructure funding, more leeway to remove homeless camps

Metropolitan Portland News

Snow could stick on the valley floor in the Portland metro area overnight

Portland mayor elaborates on his homeless shelter plan amidst budget shortfall

Oregon Coast

Reedsport overpass project receives federal support, enabling safer rail expansion

Central/Eastern Oregon

EOU to advance technology skills with workforce ready grants

Pendleton Children’s Center moves forward with building purchase after funding freeze scare

Onion growers support tariffs, potato growers not so much

Willamette Valley Area

Linn County leaders join those who want to delay clean truck rules

Southern Oregon

UPDATE: More snow arrives; RVTD service ending early; JCSO tells motorists to stay off roads

Medford airport digging out after snowstorm

Business News

Oregon wines are collateral damage in on-again, off-again U.S.-Canada trade war

Health News

A sense of foreboding hangs over the National Institutes of Health

UnitedHealthcare Denial Rates and Slow Payments Hamper Talks, OHSU Says

Doctors sue Trump administration over removed health data

Education News

Still locked out of federal funding, several Head Start preschools may need to close temporarily

International News

Trump says the ‘Gaza thing has never worked’ as his team calls current rebuilding timeline nonviable

Live updates: Trump wants US to take ownership of Gaza Strip

El Salvador’s offer to take in US deportees and violent criminals is unlike any other migrant deal

China counters with tariffs on US products. It will also investigate Google

Colombia’s president orders national oil company to cancel US venture over environmental concerns

National News

FBI agents sue over Justice Dept. effort to ID employees involved in Trump-related investigations

Trump says he’s given advisers instructions for Iran to be ‘obliterated’ if it assassinates him

Lawsuit filed over attempts by Elon Musk’s DOGE to take over U.S. benefit payment system

National Political News

Trump administration adds fine print to ‘Fork’ resignation offer, deepening confusion

Trump nominates Joe Kent as director of National Counter Terrorism Center

Elon Musk is barreling into government with DOGE, raising unusual legal questions

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick to oversee US spy agencies, clears Senate committee

Merkley, Democrats press EPA head on what they say is an illegal ‘pause’ of approved funds

Senate confirms Pam Bondi to lead Justice Department

Congress puts hold on Trump’s $1 billion arms sale to Israel 

Few prominent political figures viewed favorably: Gallup

House GOP forced to punt preliminary vote on Trump legislative agenda bill

Opinion

A kicked DOGE hollers: Progressives’ telling response to an agency cutting spending

Trump and Congress are skipping out on the bill for mass deportations