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Oregon News

Childhood safety center director at UO says more can be done to prevent child abuse and support survivors

The CEO of SAIF, the State Workers’ Compensation Insurer, Says His Home Was Targeted by Gunfire

Oregon spends millions to help immigrants fight deportation. It’s unclear how many succeed

Oregon sought to ensure early reading instruction would be done right. Trump canceled researchers’ oversight

Oregon Political News

Gov. Kotek introduces bill that would allow her, future governors, Senate to choose state forester

Lawmakers consider protecting residential utility customers from yearly rate hikes in winter

Bill Would Restrict Computer Cleaner

Questions over Oregon politician’s pay lead Defense Department to terminate agency funding

How young is too young to marry? Any age under 18, says a bill before the Oregon Legislature

Metropolitan Portland News

Multnomah County’s homeless services department faces $104 million budget gap

Councilor Kanal’s Proposed Tweaks to Police Accountability Board Inflame Police Union

Multnomah County announces likely reductions in homeless services, asks other governments for help

The war in Ukraine tore them from home; Preschool for All provided a fresh start in Portland

Central/Eastern Oregon

Oregon wheat farmers brace for boomerang effects of Trump’s international aid program freeze

Port of Morrow losing grant to fund Columbia Development Authority

Bentz’s Pendleton town hall draws major crowd, criticism

Rep. Cliff Bentz fields questions about Trump, federal firings, Musk during Baker City town hall

Rep. Greg Smith teaches Umatilla High School students the art of lawmaking

Willamette Valley News

Pilot addiction care program launches in Marion County 

Corvallis grants tax exemption to unique residential project

Eugene chamber pushes back against city’s new fire service fee

Timber builds dreams at 87th Annual Oregon Logging Conference

Southern Oregon

Housing development planned for Winston

New legislation tackling illicit marijuana grows

3 tribes to appeal Medford casino ruling

Legislators listen to Josephine County views on local economic development challenges

Tense Medford School Board meeting goes deep into the night

Klamath County proposes east county policing district as solution to insufficient rural law enforcement

Klamath Falls City Council hosts organizations that support commerce

Business News

Elon Musk blurs the line between his government and business roles

Oregon exports bounced back last year but a nascent trade war has everything in flux

Dutch Bros is riding high

US consumers have deep inflation worries, highest since 1995

Trump uses merch to monetize agenda

Public Safety

Multiple criminal cases against PSU protesters dropped after attorneys discover footage

Can You Live in Oregon While on Parole in Another State?

Oregon’s latest plan to reduce public defense crisis makes it worse, analysis says

Natural Resource News

At least 19 Oregon agriculture researchers fired as part of sweeping federal cuts, OSU says

Oregon’s public lands face uncertain future amid job cuts

Eagles, hawks perched on power poles more likely to be shot than electrocuted, according to study

Health News

Bird flu in Oregon cats is still very rare, state vet says

COVID ‘contrarians’ are seizing reins of power under Trump

Providence, nurses union reach new tentative deal in 6-week-long strike

Education News

Portland State faculty union steps closer to potential strike, declaring impasse in contract negotiations

Data Suggests Most Districts in Oregon Have Hired More Teachers Since 2016

Energy & Environment

Dams, power lines and statistics: What the Bonneville Power Administration is and does

International News

Pope Francis rested during a peaceful night following respiratory crisis

Israel delays Palestinian prisoner release; moves tanks into West Bank

How one community in Chile is blessed and cursed with lithium

Arab leaders huddle in Saudi Arabia in pushback to Trump’s Gaza plans

Conservative opposition wins German election and the far right is 2nd with strongest postwar result

Zelenskyy says progress made on reaching an agreement with the U.S. on rare minerals deal

NATO reacts to Merz’s victory

National News

Judge largely blocks Trump’s executive orders ending federal support for DEI programs

Democratic AGs win preliminary injunction against DOGE access to Treasury payment systems

National Political News

Elon Musk says federal employees must either document their work — or lose their jobs

Key federal agencies refuse to comply with Musk’s latest demand in his cost-cutting crusade

Trump and Musk aren’t the first to make deep cuts. Clinton-era Reinventing Government saved billions

‘Dark MAGA’ spreads as conservatives embrace Musk’s influence on Trump

Federal worker firings put Hanford safety in jeopardy, says Sen. Patty Murray

Trump administration plans mass firing at office that funds homelessness programs

Trump says he may take control of the US Postal Service. Here’s what to know

Why did the U.S. Senate pull an all-nighter on the budget? A look inside vote-a-rama

Bipartisan congressional group hopes to restore bill providing millions in rural school funding

NPR, PBS on edge over Trump budget scrutiny, funding threat

Trump fires chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and two other military officers

Hegseth responds to blowback over Friday night Pentagon purge

Leavitt says media has been ‘blinded’ by ‘anti-Trump bias’

Musk and DOGE underwater with some voters in recent polling

Opinion

Opinion: An investment in higher education is an investment in Oregon’s economy

President Trump shakes the core of what America has been at home and abroad with chaos

Panic and Trump fatigue welcome Wyden back to Oregon: Steve Duin column

A Brief History of Broken Russian Promises to Ukraine

RFK Jr. Makes His First Anti-Vaccine Move

Musk may be the wedge Democrats need to separate Trump from his working-class base