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Oregon News

7.0 earthquake off Northern California prompts brief tsunami warning

Tsunami warning expires along southern Oregon coast

Bill offering wildfire survivors relief from taxes and fees passes Congress

Thousands of Oregonians have longer to request storm-related food aid

‘Greater Idaho’ movement leaders say ‘practical problem-solver’ Trump could be their champion

Oregon Political News

As Oregon considers rolling back child welfare reforms, advocates cry foul

Metropolitan Portland News

Portland city employees balk at Mayor-elect Wilson’s return-to-office proposal

Residential PGE customers subsidizing industrial customer growth, CEO letter to Wyden indicates

Mayor-Elect Keith Wilson Selects Aisling Coghlan as His Chief of Staff

Construction for Multnomah County deflection center will cost nearly double original estimate

Portland City Hall insider to become Multnomah County’s homelessness czar

Oregon Coast

Tsunami warning triggers advisory from state agencies

Rules amended to prohibit shore camping in Brookings

Update – Tsunami Warning cancelled, Oregon Coast state park beach accesses reopen at 3:00 pm

Recreational crabbing now open coastwide

Central/Eastern Oregon

Umatilla Electric powers economic growth with new substation

Umatilla Electric Coop returning $6M to members in capital credits

Willamette Valley Area

Brooks incinerator stops taking trash soon. What’s next? 

EWEB includes rate hikes for water, electricity in 2025 budget

Southern Oregon

Strong earthquake strikes off California coast, triggering tsunami warning in southern Oregon

Roseburg Forest Products lays off 79 employees

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library program costs in Douglas County to be jointly paid by state

Grants Pass leaves proposed downtown library off its urban renewal priority list

Survey results show Josephine’s libraries, books remain popular

County makes it official: Flying Lark sold for $9.5 million to local church

Business News

Carpenter Media proceeds with more layoffs, cost cutting at Oregon newspapers

Oregon regulators side with renewable diesel developers at Port Westward near Clatskanie

Court rejects Boeing plea deal stemming from 737 Max crashes

Honda recalls nearly 206,000 SUVs for fuel leaks that could cause fire

Roseburg Forest Products lays off 79 employees

Public Safety

Legendary Medellin cartel drug lord released from U.S. prison after serving 25 years

New OSP K-9 named as tribute to girl’s 5-year-old twin sister

Natural Resource News

$849 million for Western water projects announced by Biden administration

Updated treaty shows biggest change in moderately wet years

Health News

OHSU’s Druker on morale, cost-cutting, and plan to acquire Legacy Health

Psilocybin in Oregon eases death anxiety, but access is limited

Energy & Climate Change

Oregon approves state’s largest solar farm on 10,000 acres of farmland

Oregon approves new recycling rules to reduce packaging pollution

Trump moves spark fear of brain drain at environment agencies

International News

A major power plant fails in Cuba, plunging the island into darkness — again

Amnesty International accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza, which Israel strongly denies

Israeli intelligence sees growing chance Assad’s forces collapse in Syria

National News

Live updates: Police search for gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO

Words on ammo in CEO shooting echo common phrase on insurer tactics

New photos show face of suspected killer of insurance company CEO

Police Zero In on NYC Hostel in Hunt for UnitedHealth Shooter

5 new details in search for UnitedHealthcare CEO’s shooter

National Political News

Former officials urge closed-door Senate hearings on Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick for intel chief

Donald Trump picks Missouri’s Billy Long to lead the IRS

White House weighs preemptive pardons for potential Trump targets

Senate GOP sees Hegseth nomination as likely doomed

Musk, Ramaswamy have few answers for tough DOGE questions from GOP

Patel has threatened legal action over remarks, former Pence aide says 

GOP senators push to take out provision in defense bill to draft women in military

Speaker Johnson says he’d ‘like to’ axe PBS and Planned Parenthood

Scoop: Trump, RFK Jr. dine with Pfizer and Lilly execs

Opinion

Forests will burn but then logging them right after delays recovery