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Oregon News

Oregon roads and bridges are old and damaged. Fixing them is an expensive task for lawmakers this year

Oregon’s blue bubble: How will the state’s pols fare against Trump?

Providence health care worker strike continues through weekend

Oregon State Forester resigns

Oregon Political News

Oregon lawmakers craft bill to shield consumers from the cost of powering data centers

Oregon lawmakers scramble to fund devastating wildfire season

Metropolitan Portland News

Multnomah County public defenders push back against new DA’s comments

Portland’s newest leaders work to ease labor tensions as city strike looms

Oregon’s 3 largest counties will get less money than anticipated to fund homeless services this year

Clackamas County Commissioner Melissa Fireside draws criticism for not showing up in person at board meeting

Central/Eastern Oregon

Feds award Bend $32M for rail crossing at Reed Market

Hermiston to develop urban forest management plan

Willamette Valley Area

Federal judge finds city of Corvallis retaliated against city councilor for exercising free speech

What legislation will local lawmakers prioritize in ’25? 

Detroit Lake to be dropped to extreme low level in plan to save salmon 

Southern Oregon

Pollinator gardens rise in the Rogue Valley from the ashes of the Almeda Fire

Feds Issue Final Approval for Coquille Tribal Casino in Medford

How a fight over $1 led library lovers to protest in the streets of small-town Oregon

Medford’s new Mayor Zarosinski takes reins from Sparacino

Business News

Daimler halts diesel truck sales in Oregon over new rules

Kohl’s will close its only Portland store, along with 26 others

A Bond Selloff Is Rocking the World. You Might Want to Take the Other Side.

Tesla’s easy money from clean car credits at risk under Trump

Natural Resource News

Lawsuit: Flood insurance rules subvert Oregon farmland protections

Transportation News

Car crashes on Highway 97 in Klamath County claimed numerous lives in recent months

Health News

Providence says operations are smooth despite 5,000 striking at its hospitals, women’s clinics

Health insurers limit coverage of prosthetic limbs, questioning their medical necessity

No need to provide an avian flu vaccine for humans yet, expert says

International News

Canada’s Trudeau urges US consumers to consider the harm of Trump’s tariff threats

Biden and Netanyahu discuss the latest in the effort to reach an Israel-Hamas war ceasefire

National News

L.A. is bracing for the return of more powerful winds as fires continue to burn

Jack Smith has resigned from the justice department, after submitting his Trump report

Trump can still vote after sentencing, but can’t own a gun and will have to turn over DNA sample

Vance says Jan. 6 participants who committed violence ‘obviously’ shouldn’t be pardoned

Skeptical Supreme Court justices weigh a rescue of TikTok from nearing ban

What caused the Palisades Fire? Visual evidence points to a new possibility.

Newsom announces executive order centered on rebuilding after fires

National Political News

States are preparing to help or thwart Trump’s second-term plans

Some US lawmakers want more Christianity in the classroom. Trump could embolden their plans

Election math looks like it’s just going to get easier for the GOP

Live updates: Trump blasts ‘incompetent’ officials, FEMA admin says fires shouldn’t be politicized

GOP rep suggests California relief aid should be withheld over state policies

Steve Bannon says he will ‘take down’ the ‘truly evil’ Elon Musk

Trump’s Cabinet disruptors soften key views as hearings loom

Opinion

Editorial: Merry Christmas, labor unions! Love, Gov. Kotek

Editorial: With new people now in charge, a week of chaos

A Report to Our Readers

For fear of finding something worse: Trump and the end of the global rules-based order