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Oregon News

Gov. Tina Kotek presses Oregon Department of Transportation to improve its performance

Oregon governor requests federal funding to support aftermath of spring floods

Training, tenacity and thrift help former Oregon foster youth launch sewing business

Poverty stats understate Oregon financial hardship by factor of 3, report says

Oregon Political News

Oregon Senate passes hotly contested gun bill

Republicans intensify opposition to capping bills per session in Oregon

Oregon Sen. Lisa Reynolds mulls conflict of interest declaration after ethics report

Is There Any Way to Tell Which Political Fundraising Texts Are Legit?

Lawmakers Hamstrung in Overseeing Travel Oregon’s Spending

Oregon Legislators Introduce Bill to Close OHSU’s 5,000-Monkey Primate Center

Groups Say Bill to Improve Early Literacy Initiative May Widen Disparities

Lawmakers Call for Oregon to Stick to Its Education Accountability Commitment

Oregon bill removes time limits for sex abuse lawsuits: ‘Justice for what happened to you should never have an expiration date’

Oregon Wildfire News

Northwest wildfire outlook is grim, even as hiring has ramped up

Oregon Coast

Double threat of Cascadia earthquake and sea-level rise could change Pacific Northwest coast forever

Newport parking issues highlight city’s growing pains

Coastal republicans oppose bill to establish the Elliott State Research Forest

Central/Eastern Oregon

Pendleton has plenty of space for new housing

Eastern Oregon leaders praise data centers, look to future

Willamette Valley/Salem News

Lane Community College offers early childhood education course in Spanish to support growing Latino community

Albany schools to reduce positions amid shortfall at GAPS

Amid declining enrollment, Corvallis schools take a facility inventory

Southern Oregon

Tribe to seek community input for downtown property development

Accreditation matters: Wildlife Safari steps up amid game park crisis

Smith: West ‘did not buy any favors from me’

Crater Lake park superintendent abruptly resigns 5 months after starting the job

Fire season begins in Jackson and Josephine counties; greenway restrictions arrive

Business/Economic News

Good economic news can’t catch a break

Small businesses struggle under Trump’s tariff whiplash: ‘I’m so angry that my own government has done this to me’

Trump Administration Targets Tech Firms as It Cuts More Contracts

Public Safety

Natural Resource News

Health News

FDA approves new Moderna COVID-19 vaccine

Trump administration cuts $11 million from programs that keep people healthy

International News

Ukraine launches massive drone strike on air bases deep inside Russia

U.S. gives Iran updated nuclear deal offer

White House envoy says Hamas response to U.S. proposal “takes us backward”

After talks with Zelenskyy and Macron, US senators warn: Putin ‘is preparing for more war’

Zelensky salutes drone attack on Russia: ‘Absolutely brilliant result’

National News

FBI responds to “targeted terror attack” in Colorado, Bureau chief says

The great undoing: Trump’s presidency reeled in by courts

Supreme Court allows US to cut short Biden-era immigration status

National Political News

Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” has Republicans squabbling over math

Budget head Vought floats impoundment to sidestep Congress on DOGE cuts

MAGA’s world tour exports Trumpism beyond U.S. borders

6 Senate Republicans who could hold up Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’

Johnson says 4.8 million Americans won’t lose Medicaid access ‘unless they choose to do so’

Musk says he doesn’t want to ‘take responsibility’ for all Trump actions

Vought pushes back against idea that ‘big, beautiful bill’ will raise deficit

Education advocates press Senate for changes to Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’

Johnson to Senate fiscal hawks: Will take ‘more than a flip of a switch’ to fix US finance

Jeffries says Americans ‘aren’t interested in bending the knee to a wannabe king’

Democrats struggle to check Trump moves on plane, meme coin

Checking the math on White House, GOP claims about ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

Trump’s national debt pledge faces skepticism from investors and some Republicans

Tariff/Trade News

Trump, Xi to talk this week about trade, key advisor says

Trump’s Top Aides Insist Tariffs Are Here to Stay

Government Employee News

Opinion

Ukraine just rewrote the rules of war

No, OBGYNs are not systematically fleeing states that banned abortion

Federal food aid cuts will cause America’s hunger crisis to skyrocket

It’s not just Trump: The right in Europe is also cracking down on citizenship

Opinion: We do not need any more nonprofits