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Oregon News

Oregon government transparency advocates aim to beef up public meetings rules, citing troubling ambiguities

Scientists play waiting game with giant volcano off Oregon Coast

Oregon Political News /Polls

Oregon lawmakers to hear from public on new transportation bill ahead of special session

As Special Session Looms on Transportation Funding, ODOT Quietly Offers Alternative to New Taxes

Bentz plans to meet with small groups on district tour instead of large town halls

At US Rep. Hoyle town hall in Eugene, attendees urge her to more strongly condemn war in Gaza

Longtime Portland-area elected official tapped for job by Trump administration

Oregon refuses to give private voter information to Trump lawyers who demanded it

Oregon Wildfire News

Oregon fire map & tracker

InciWeb – Oregon Wildfire Tracker

Thousands of homes under threat as Flat Fire grows with no containment in Central Oregon

How donations through BottleDrop can support wildfire relief funds

Flat Fire brings new evacuations to Sisters amid red flag warning

Oregon wildfire danger to rise rapidly over coming week

Portland/Metro News

Amid scorching heat, Portland’s halls of knowledge offer cool relief

Tickets for Kamala Harris’ Portland book tour appearance sell out in just over 2 hours

Amid escalating tribal tensions, Oregon grants $12.5 million to Grand Ronde-led project

Promised housing vouchers abruptly canceled for a dozen Portland-area families

Oregon Coast

Doerner Fir tree in Southern Oregon survives fire but loses its record height

Central & Eastern Oregon News

CTUIR-backed project in Union County receives $22 million

Umatilla County approves grant application draft for deflection program

Willamette Valley/Salem News

University of Oregon faculty speak out against looming layoffs next month

Albany retirement community plans expansion, but existing residents have questions

Deputy: Lebanon woman tried to escape on a tractor

Medicaid in Lane County: Health care leaders speak

Southern Oregon

Josephine County commissioners complicate the approval of a new library lease

Drain, Myrtle Creek, Yoncalla without city administrators

Ashland’s Lincoln School shut down days before school starts

Heat wave is straining electrical grid

Organizers push for the recall of two Josephine County Commissioners

Business & Economic News

Intel agrees to give US government $8.9B stake in its company

Stagnant Job Market Is a Rising Risk for the U.S. Economy

Home purchases are getting canceled at a record rate: Redfin

Wall Street faces a reckoning in Washington as crypto influence grows

Education News

To test or not to test? In kindergarten, that’s the question

Energy & Environment

Trump halts work on New England offshore wind project that’s nearly complete

Q&A on the Trump EPA’s effort to curtail regulation of greenhouse gas emissions

Health News

Lack of MAHA pesticide recommendations alarms environmentalists

RFK Jr., allies rush to rally the MAHA movement for 2026

Natural Resource News

Pacific Northwest cherries boomed this season, but for farmers it was more of a bust

Salmon extinction in motion in Washington’s and Oregon’s Snake River

Public Safety

As Trump touts D.C. arrests, experts caution they’re not the best indicator of public safety

Misconduct pervaded this Native American police force; some paid with their lives, cops say

Transportation News

After Corvallis collapse, US railroad bridges still missing oversight

International News

Moscow says Kyiv has struck a nuclear power plant as Ukraine marks Independence Day

Pentagon Has Quietly Blocked Ukraine’s Long-Range Missile Strikes on Russia

Russian foreign minister says ‘Ukraine has the right to exist’ with territory-related caveat

France summons US Ambassador Kushner over ‘unacceptable’ letter about rising antisemitism

Former CIA director: Putin ‘clearly’ has no intention to end war ‘unless he’s given additional territory’

National News

Judge blocks Trump from cutting funding over ‘sanctuary’ policies

FBI searches the home of former Trump adviser John Bolton

National Campaign News/Polls

Republicans shift focus to states beyond Texas in redistricting fight

Gov. Moore says he is looking into redistricting Maryland: ‘All options are on the table’

National Political News

Trump expands cities targeted for possible military deployment to Baltimore in a spat with governor

‘Stay out of our city’: Chicago officials slam Trump’s threat to target city in next crime crackdown

Trump issued an order targeting homeless people. In D.C., he’s giving it a test run.

DC braces for funding fight in Congress amid Trump crackdown

Trump’s DC crime crackdown has Stephen Miller at its core

Homan says order to shutdown Alligator Alcatraz ‘not going to stop’ ICE operations

Vance on 2028 talks with Trump: ‘He wants me to be focused on doing a good job’

Trump to ask Congress for $2 billion to fix ‘hellhole’ D.C.

Newsom trolls Trump once again with MAGA-style merch, Bibles

Trump’s identity project

Mail-in voting backed by most Americans despite Trump push to end it

Scoop: Trump’s new “Apple Store”

Immigrant detentions soar 50% to a record under Trump

Trump allies expand political enemies probe despite pledges: “no politicization”

Tariff/Trade News

Trump says ‘We want to be very good to Canada,’ as its leader drops some tariffs

Boxed in by shifting tariff rules, European shippers pause some U.S.-bound parcels

Opinion

Editorial: Billions in new taxes should come with a commitment

Opinion: Reforming Portland’s high-tax system will protect programs, not gut them

Transportation special session could be pivot point for 2026 governor’s race

Empty gestures set back the cause of Palestinian statehood

A Deere in the Tariff Headlights

The majority of business owners in the US are right-leaning — here’s why 

Trump’s climate crackdown will backfire as GOP lawsuits expose coal’s dark secrets

The ‘Made in America’ con job: Red, white and robbed.