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Oregon News

How to recognize and prevent heat-related illnesses as temperatures rise in Oregon

Oregon Department of State Lands gets new leader in scientist and lawyer Kaitlin Lovell

Oregon to receive $10 million in new nationwide opioid settlement

Oregon labor bureau gets $19M budget boost to tackle wage claim backlog

Oregon’s biggest counties depend on international migration for population growth

Oregon Wildfire News

Resources for Oregon firefighters have restrained early-season wildfires but may not last long

Conflagration declared as Highland Fire forces evacuations near Prineville

HIGHLAND FIRE UPDATE: Fire 5% contained as of Monday morning, evacuations levels unchanged

Metropolitan Portland News

Bullies or demonstrators? How court records are describing Portland’s ICE protests

Portland City Council Looking for Means to Expel ICE From South Waterfront

Why Washington County sewer officials may halt annual business trips to Hawaii

2,000 Portland area residents stare down homelessness while waiting for tardy Oregon Health Plan rent checks

Intel’s mass layoffs spark ‘shock’ and ‘concern’ among Washington County leaders

Central & Eastern Oregon News

ODOT laying off more than 30 workers in NE Oregon

Willamette Valley/Salem News

Revived clinic brings hope to Sheridan, but Medicaid cuts threaten its future

ODOT asked to close Stayton park and ride lot along Highway 22

Summer is heating up: More heat advisories issued in Lane County

Southern Oregon

Suspect arrested in Devil’s Slide fire near Grants Pass

Phoenix-Talent School District provides temporary home base for wildland firefighters

Conditions in Jackson County prompt high fire danger alert

Business/Economic News

US manufacturers are stuck in a rut despite subsidies from Biden and protection from Trump

Bitcoin hits record high as Capitol Hill turns to ‘crypto week’

Natural Resource News

Trump’s big bill calls for much more logging. One provision could cost Oregon counties

Health News

Outdoor recreation key to mental health during crises, OSU-led survey concludes

New York clerk again refuses to enforce Texas judgment against doctor who provided abortion pills

New Medicaid work rules put states in a bind

Transportation News

As Kotek Scrambles to Save ODOT Union Jobs, Here Are Positions Being Cut and Vacated

These are the positions that ODOT is slashing

ODOT laying off 483 people to cut budget impacting rural Oregon

Education News

24 states sue Trump admin to unfreeze more than $6 billion in education grants

How Trump plans to dismantle the Education Department after Supreme Court ruling

International News

European trade ministers meet to forge strategy after Trump’s surprise 30% tariffs

What Trump’s new weapons plan for Ukraine might mean

Israel strikes military tanks in southern Syria, where government forces clash with Druze militias

Putin’s talk about achieving peace ‘doesn’t mean anything,’ Trump says

National News

More immigration judges are being fired amid Trump’s efforts to speed up deportations

Attorney General Pam Bondi fires top Justice Department ethics official

National Campaign News/Polls

Democrats say Biden needs to quit taking GOP bait

Democrats underwater in new poll

Vance, Newsom tangle after VP vacation to Disneyland

Voters say Trump hasn’t been tough enough on Putin: Poll

Obama’s blunt message for Democrats: Toughen up

National Political News

GOP leader faces showdown with Republicans on Trump-backed funding cuts 

First lady catches Putin’s deception after Trump’s ‘wonderful’ phone calls

House Democrats try to force release of Epstein files

House Democrat floats radical solution to Congress’ age problem

3 ways Trump might try to defuse the Epstein mess

Tariff/Trade News

Trump threatens Russia with tariffs and boosts US weapons for Ukraine

Trump threatens Russia with major new tariffs if there’s no Ukraine deal in 50 days

European Union to hit US aircraft, cars and food in latest retaliatory strike

Government Employee News

Live updates: Supreme Court will allow mass layoffs at Education Department

Supreme Court allows mass firings at Education Department for now

Opinion

The Supreme Court is slowly strangling the Constitution

‘I voted for none of this!’ Were Trump’s voters duped?

MAGA versus ‘Truth, justice and the American way’ 

5 big wins for the middle class in the ‘big, beautiful’ law

Trump Sends a New Message to Putin

About That Tariff Budget Surplus

Kyiv sees reasons for hope and disappointment in Trump’s latest announcement