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Oregon/Northwest News

Investigative report alleges Oregon’s HR chief was fired after not following state policies. She calls it ‘deeply flawed’

Bargaining stalls over wages between classified staff workers and Oregon’s public universities

SNAP cuts, soaring food costs and rising hunger grip Oregon families

Before Abrupt Ouster, Oregon State Hospital’s Chief Flagged Staffing Problems, Union Says

Exclusive: Firm with $1M ODOT contract now auditing agency

Oregon Legislative News

Oregon ethics commission fines Rep. Greg Smith $12K for using office for pay raise, excess vacation 

Oregon Campaign & Election News

Kotek targets Trump SNAP cuts as she builds reelection message

Wildfire News

New wildfires ignite and spread across Oregon

South Lane forest fire burning 16 miles from Cottage Grove

Fielder Mountain Fire staying put

Containment reaches 18% for the Fielder Mountain Fire

Wrights Spring Fire reaches 47% containment

Lightning storms cause several small fires, but aid Wrights Spring firefighting efforts

Portland/Metro News

ODOT warns of upcoming major road closure along I-5

Portland mayor picks favorites in upcoming City Council contests

Fired OHSU Health CEO files $15.5M lawsuit

Oregon Coast News

Coos County expects more timber money, but won’t budget it yet

ODFW Commission revises Dungeness crab fishery rules to address whale entanglements

Pacific Seafood’s $3.2 million fine exposes clash over Oregon water rules, industry viability

Fishing vessel joins trained team to free injured humpback whale off Oregon Coast

Central/Eastern Oregon News

John Day City Council gains one member, loses another

Willamette Valley/Salem News

Corvallis School Board sends local option levy renewal to November ballot

PeaceHealth to lay off IT workers, outsource jobs to India-based company

University of Oregon’s low enrollment halts plans for new dormitories

Southern Oregon News

Klamath Basin needs more water to avoid deadly botulism outbreak, Bird Alliance warns

Rogue River city councilor among those evacuated for Fielder Mountain Fire

AI/Technology News

Flock tries to quell surveillance fears as questions pile up

Business/ Economic News

Downward trend in employment for women nationwide, in Oregon, raising questions

Tariffs, Canadian retaliation, crush U.S. wine and beer industries

Jim Jordan says costs ‘are tough,’ but economy is in a ‘pretty good direction’

House Republican: ‘Prices are too high’

Are mass layoffs coming? Most states let you check – here’s how

Stock-Picking Funds Are Performing as Poorly as Ever

Trump-linked crypto venture World Liberty Trust granted bank status

Retail sales slump in July

Education News

They encouraged high schoolers to protest after a racist incident. Now they are out of a job

College loses its monopoly on the American Dream

The big college major rethink

Energy & Environmental News

With PNW electricity demand surging, planners map out major grid upgrades

A summer of extremes: Weathering a hotter world

How $600B of Biden’s clean energy funding escaped Trump’s cuts

Healthcare News

PeaceHealth to lay off IT workers, outsource jobs to India-based company

Cassidy: ‘Pretty evident’ RFK Jr. lied about changing vaccine schedule

Outbreaks threaten HHS ‘real food’ agenda 

Kennedy looks for new members for revamped vaccine committee

Media News

Rising: August 14, 2026

Natural Resource/Agriculture News

Why farm nonprofits are suing USDA over grant DEI Rules

Public Safety News

Kids keep getting hurt and killed on e-bikes. Should parents be held responsible?

Sports News

Trail Blazers will meet with Portland to discuss lease negotiations Monday

Transportation News

New survey asks Oregonians how they want transportation dollars spent

Court & Justice News

Lawsuit filed to block Trump’s 24M-acre grazing expansion

Blanche refuses to pledge DOJ will always act independently of White House

Angry at the Supreme Court, liberals push a slew of plans for overhauling it

Todd Blanche says the DOJ may take states’ voter-roll fight to Supreme Court

Immigration/ICE News

Oregon politician makes unannounced visit to ICE detention center in Tacoma. Here’s what she learned

‘Outraged’: ICE plan to give officers electric shock gloves draws outcry

International News

Ukraine launches one of its largest aerial attacks of the war, killing at least 6 people in Russia

Mass homelessness is exposing the rot in Chinese society

National News

Lala is again a tropical storm, sending drenching rain and winds across Hawaii

Poll & Surveys

CBS News poll on whether Democrats split over socialism

National Campaign/Elections

Republicans won the redistricting competition. Don’t tell that to this California congressman

No more ‘hypothetical situations’: States move to fortify elections against Trump

Florida primary fight marks DSA’s last stand

ID requirements for mail-in voting in Texas reinstated by federal appeals court

National Political News

Jeffries: ‘I don’t support’ DSA agenda

National Congressional News

Democrats, including in Oregon, have put forward nearly 250 state bills opposing federal immigration efforts

Gallego: Congress boosting Iran war funding ‘like giving a drunk more money and hoping that they’ll stop drinking’

Senate-passed government funding bill gets warm House reception

Trump/Administration News

Trump administration wants to allow companies to hack foreign cybercriminals

The buck stops somewhere else: A look at Trump’s tendency to avoid blame when things go awry

Congressional approval not needed for White House ballroom, Trump tells high court

Cassidy on Trump’s vaccine order, ‘crazy, stupid’ claims: ‘This is why the president’s poll numbers are going down’

Trump says White House needs ‘military complex’ as courts block his ballroom

Trump’s Ballroom Was His Dream of Beauty and Space. Now It’s a ‘Military Complex.’

Trump orders major shift with South Korea, points to his ‘very good’ relationship with Kim Jong Un

Trump shrugs off concerns about dismal conditions on USS Abraham Lincoln

Trump’s legal team shrinks

Trump changed Republican economics. Now the GOP has to figure out how to sell it.

Middle East Conflict News

Kushner meets with Hamas on the Gaza road map ahead of talks with Netanyahu

Israel’s Ben Gvir advocates killing ’30 to 40′ people in Gaza nightly while speaking to ex-hostage

Hamas leaders tell Kushner they will demilitarize Gaza, sources say

Scoop: Inside Trump’s secret backchannel to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

US-Iran ceasefire set to expire with talks at a standstill

Defense/Military

Trump orders Pentagon to scale back joint exercises with South Korea

Top US Mideast commander visits USS Lincoln as reports emerge of mental health issues aboard

AP Exclusive: US military base schools put new emphasis on Western civilization and Christianity

Former Joint Chiefs chair: Truth about issues on USS Abraham Lincoln ‘somewhere in the middle’

Moore says Trump’s response to reported USS Abraham Lincoln conditions ‘pisses me off’

Gallego: USS Lincoln concerns prove Trump views service members as ‘toys’

Opinion

Europeans are sour on Trump, but they increasingly back his immigration policy

Why Americans now hate each other more than ever

The worse it gets, the better it is: American leftism is thriving on its own failures

Trump’s Harvard loss conceals a strategic victory

The old global nuclear order is dead. What comes next?

When America’s budget will break, disastrously

Republicans Can End an Inflation Tax

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Editorial cartoons for Aug. 16, 2026: New vaccine rules, Trump decoy plane, surveillance state