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Oregon News

Controversial Cap and Trade Policy Reemerges in Salem

Oregon Rep. Cliff Bentz insists Republicans ‘not cutting’ Medicaid, SNAP

Rural Oregon’s clean energy investments at risk as Republicans pass Trump’s budget bill

Oregon Department of Transportation needs structural changes to increase transparency, better manage projects, new report says

Oregon seniors outnumber children for the first time, creating a looming demographic challenge

Longtime Travel Oregon CEO Steps Down Amid Oregon Journalism Project Investigation

Oregon Political News

Oregon lawmakers look to reshape cap-and-trade program to pay for transportation needs

Oregon’s ban on book bans is heading for a final vote in the Legislature

GOP bill could slash food aid that helps 1 in 6 Oregonians

A slimmed-down climate education bill gains traction in Oregon Legislature

Do you return cans for 10 cents apiece? Oregon’s Bottle Bill is set to change

Oregon Department of Education Responds to Secretary of State

Longtime Democratic Party of Oregon Director Steps Down

Metropolitan Portland News

Multnomah County Called in Feds to Examine Fentanyl Exposures in Library System

Novick Seeks to Strike a Deal With the Portland Metro Chamber to Fund Both Parks and Police

Multnomah County may cut legal services that supporters say prevent homelessness

Key public services take hit in Washington County’s proposed budget

Here’s how many people are homeless in Multnomah County and what officials propose to do about it

Reports: Regional homelessness increasing despite additional spending

Central/Eastern Oregon

City of Umatilla reacts to failure of police station bond measure

Willamette Valley/Salem News

Salem-Keizer voters choose largely progressive school board candidates in unusually expensive election

Southern Oregon

Former city councilor arrested following dustup with Oregon police chief over ‘racist’ comments

How prescribed burns are reshaping Southern Oregon forests and communities

Providers, community members explore cutting edge scanner at Mercy Outpatient Imaging

Wyden hears concerns about GOP budget bill at Jackson County town hall meeting

Former long-serving Ashland Mayor John Stromberg dies at 85 

Defensible space is key to protecting home from wildfire

Business/Economic News

Families livid over proposed Boeing deal that avoids criminal charges in 346 deaths

This food giant plans to hire 375k workers this summer

America’s manufacturing future still needs foreign robots

Public Safety

As summer approaches, beware of the usual dangers, and some unusual hazards

Justice Department cuts to public safety grants leave police and nonprofits scrambling

Portland Police say 78 addicts taken to deflection center over five-day period

Health News

Nurses rally to protest possible Oregon birth center closures

What top IVF advocates want from the White House fertility care plan

Republicans aim to punish states that insure unauthorized immigrants

Transportation News

GAO finds DOT funding pause on electric vehicle charging illegal

Energy & Environment

Environmental groups sue to stop controversial biofuel refinery on Columbia River

U.S. Senate vote to nix California tailpipe emissions standard blocks 17 other states, including Oregon

International News

How is the new Gaza aid plan supposed to work — and why are so many aid groups against it?

Inside Ukraine’s last maternity ward in a region surrounded by Russian forces

King Charles III visit to Canada underscores its sovereignty to Trump

Russia hits Ukraine with the largest drone-and-missile attack of the war so far

Germany’s Merz says there are no more range restrictions on the weapons supplied to Ukraine

Putin continues to batter Ukraine with missiles as Trump calls him ‘CRAZY’

National News

Judge blocks Trump administration from ending international student enrollment at Harvard

 Defense Sec. Hegseth puts new limits on press access at the Pentagon

With 2026 midterms top of mind, budget vote takes center stage

National Campaign News

Republicans face a future without Elon Musk’s money

National Political News

Trump shrinks National Security Council in major foreign policy shakeup

Trump honors fallen soldiers on Memorial Day, while attacking Biden and judges

More than 3 million people would lose SNAP benefits under GOP bill, nonpartisan report says

Trump Weighs Sanctions Against Russia as Relationship With Putin Sours

House GOP’s SNAP proposal sparks concern from Senate Republicans 

Filibuster takes center stage as GOP tees up vote to nix California EV rule

Bongino says FBI looking at ‘a number of cases of potential public corruption’

Under Bondi’s watch, victim service groups face cuts, uncertainty

Trump floats sending $3B in Harvard grants to trade schools

Trump uses another holiday message to attack political opponents

Sen. Johnson predicts he has enough Senate allies to hold up the “big, beautiful bill”

Tariff/Trade News

Pharmacists stockpile medicines ahead of possible Trump tariffs on overseas drugmakers

Volvo to cut 3,000 jobs as Trump tariffs rattle auto market

Top US, EU trade chiefs ‘in constant contact’ after Trump tariff reprieve

Walmart, Subaru, Mattel: These are the brands raising prices due to Trump’s tariffs

Opinion

Opinion: Refocus ODOT and let’s get Oregon out of the mud

Opinion: Portland, the city that works for 28-year-olds

Opinion: Oregon legislators must follow through with action on youth addiction crisis

Budgeting into the unknown

Why is Trump obsessed with Harvard?