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Oregon/Northwest News

Oregon counties want help administering data centers’ growing tax breaks

Oregon sees new high for evictions after rental assistance cuts

Students march on Oregon Capitol to protest federal immigration enforcement

After years of eradication efforts, Oregon is free of feral swine. Almost

Oregon Legislative & Political News

Democrats again delay vote on their controversial gas tax move

Lawmaker says Portland high schoolers walk past sex-trafficked victims ‘in broad daylight.’ She wants to end that

Oregon Legislature Passes Bill to Stop Speculative Ticket Sales

HB 4124 passes: What it means for Oregon’s universities

Legislators to cut Safe Route to Schools, more to fund ODOT

Oregon House member directed to return campaign contributions

Oregon leaders reveal planned budget cuts due to Trump’s tax and spending bill. The size is striking.

Despite earlier alarms, Oregon programs, services can proceed largely unscathed in wake of Trump tax and budget cuts

Oregonians would see reduced transportation services under plan to address ODOT funding gap

Oregon House Republicans salvage vote to raise lodging tax as Dems defect

Despite concerns it could diminish public transparency, bill to change Oregon open meetings law advances

Facing a ‘chilling effect,’ Oregon lawmakers seek to beef up abortion, trans health care laws

‘OPB Politics Now’: Salmon, dams and energy, plus an Oregon legislative potpourri

Oregon Election News

Elections office in Oregon’s most populous county stretched thin, audit finds

Oregon Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus Co-Chairs oppose Initiative Petition 28

Portland/Metro News

Protesters gather in Portland to condemn military strike in Iran

Portland Public Schools considers furlough days to make up multimillion dollar budget gap

Portland can fine ICE building owner $5,000 each time federal officials deploy chemical munitions

TriMet rolls back more bus routes today amid a budget crisis. Will your commute be affected?

A recycling company improperly dumped 17 tons of plastic in a landfill. It has millions of dollars in government contracts

Oregon Coast News

Yachats hopes to further its environmental goals with new Bird City designation

Opinions differ on proposed motorized boat ban on upper Siletz River

Draft of Offshore Wind Energy Roadmap available for public review, public meetings scheduled

Former DA appointed to Coquille City Council

Central & Eastern Oregon News

A lone candidate is running for Jefferson County’s District Attorney. His law license has been suspended before

Columbia Development Authority director faces possible ethics investigation

Willamette Valley/Salem News

Eugene protesters decry attacks on Iran

Bill moving through the legislature would ease Eugene annexation in some instances

Detroit’s mayor, a prominent wildfire recovery advocate, resigns

34-bed medical detox, recovery center slated to open in Salem

Southern Oregon News

Third Democrat files for Golden’s Senate seat

Grants Pass council to tackle raises, Dollar Mountain motorcycle use

Divided Medford Planning Commission OKs multi-building development below Roxy Ann

Medford council considers cost to build stadium for Eugene Emeralds

Keno community learns of nearby 8,600-acre solar project proposal in Klamath County timberlands

Klamath water users respond to Bureau of Reclamation’s management plan

Business/Economic News

A lack of pennies has Oregon store owners asking the state to allow them to round prices to the nearest nickel

Can you still file taxes for free after IRS changes?

Block laying off 40 percent of staff, citing AI advancements

Oil producers vow to boost output as world gauges Iran fallout

Education News

Oregon’s school attendance rates are among the country’s worst. A new approach aims to fix that

Education Department hangs banner of Charlie Kirk

Energy & Environment News

RFK Jr. tells Joe Rogan he was not ‘particularly happy’ with Trump’s glyphosate order

Health Care News

Providence Oregon CEO Discusses “Joint Decision” With Insurer to Restrict Access to Specialty Care

Housing News

Amid a Housing Crisis, Oregon Issues Building Permits for Multifamily Units at the Slowest Pace in 12 Years

Epstein News

Bill Clinton says he ‘did nothing wrong’ with Epstein as he faced grilling over their relationship

Serious investigation or ‘clown show’? Clintons’ closed testimonies on Epstein leave room for disagreement

Justice & Court News

Federal judge dismisses lawsuit on Oregon’s sanctuary law

Class-action lawsuits seek consumer refunds from voided Trump tariffs

Oregon jury awards 16 Santiam wildfire survivors eye-popping $305M

Supreme Court considers case involving FBI operative ready to burn everyone

Judges in a Trump stronghold condemn ICE tactics

Judges question Pam Bondi’s social media posts on Minnesota arrests

Immigration/ICE News

Feds eye another stretch of Oregon coast for ICE detention center

Portland ICE facility faces fines for tear gas use under new city rule

ICE detains and questions refugees already admitted to the US

International News

Kyiv’s elderly endure blackouts and bombardment, clinging to warmth and hope

At least 22 people killed in Pakistan as protesters try to storm US Consulate

Iran names interim leadership after Khamenei killing

Israeli president: Middle East’s future ‘depends on’ US action in Iran

US moves to legally control tanker and 2M barrels of oil seized off Venezuela’s coast in December

Iran forms interim leadership council as President Pezeshkian resurfaces

Iranian foreign minister: ‘We have a right to defend ourselves’

Pope Leo condemns “spiral of violence” in Iran strikes

Will Iranians Rise Up? Here Are the Odds.

National News

Suspect in Texas shooting wore ‘Property of Allah’ clothing and Iranian flag emblem, AP source says

FBI investigating Austin mass shooting as potential terrorism

Polls/Surveys

Latest Polls

National Campaigns/Elections

Generational change becomes focal point in Texas, North Carolina Democratic battles

National Political News

Wyden accuses Trump of acting like ‘dictator,’ says Israel’s leader should be replaced

Democrats in Oregon’s Congressional delegation blast U.S.-led attack on Iran

Kelly says it’s ‘unlikely’ he backs war powers vote

Democrats warn GOP that Bill and Hillary Clinton testimony will boomerang on them

A big change is coming to Social Security that beneficiaries may not notice

Cruz says US-Iranian ‘diplomacy was an abject failure’

Cotton: US strikes will focus on ‘thousands’ of Iranian missiles

Democratic senator presses Noem on suspension of global entry, TSA PreCheck

US military shot down border patrol drone with laser in Texas, lawmakers say

Marjorie Taylor Greene calls US service members’ deaths in Iran ‘unnecessary’ and ‘unacceptable’

Democratic divides erupt after Trump strikes Iran

Sen. Mark Warner says he saw ‘no intelligence’ of imminent threat from Iran

House Oversight chair: Bill Clinton punts question to committee on whether Trump should testify in Epstein probe

National Congressional News

Reconciliation bill subsidizes fossil fuels by $3.5B each year, Democratic report finds

Trump/Administration News

Trump tariff refund fight in motion as small businesses take helm

Trump agrees to speak to Iran’s interim leadership: The Atlantic

State Department urges Americans to ‘exercise increased caution’ amid Iran military action

The president’s foray into Iran risks alienating his war-weary supporters

Hunkered at Mar-a-Lago, Trump makes his club a makeshift Situation Room

Two months, two tracks: How Trump chose war with Iran

How Trump’s Iran gamble breaks from past regime overthrows

Reluctant MAGA demands swift results from Trump in Iran

Iran Invasion News

Latest updates: Alliances and alerts

Iran plots its next steps as military strikes continue

A duo of the willing: US and Israel have few allies in initial Iran strikes

Iran’s supreme leader killed in major attack by US and Israel

Why is the U.S. attacking Iran? Six things to know

3 US troops killed and 5 are seriously wounded during Iran attacks, military says

Trump warns Iran not to retaliate after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed

Explosion rocks Iran’s capital as Israel says it is targeting the city

World leaders react cautiously to US and Israeli strikes, death of Iran Ali Khamenei

Trump says more US service members ‘will likely’ be killed before Iran conflict ends

No American ships have been hit since the US-Israeli strikes began

Dubai’s image as a safe, tax-free haven is rocked by blasts from Iranian airstrikes

Some celebrate in Iran after supreme leader’s death, but deep fear and uncertainty remain

Trump goes to war despite professed aversion to foreign entanglements, particularly in the Mideast

Calls for peace and flashes of anger after US and Israeli attacks kill Iran’s Khamenei

Live updates: Trump warns Iran against retaliation; 3 US servicemembers killed

How US strikes on Iran could trigger a wider war with its proxies

Trump offering immunity to IRGC, Iranian military and police forces

U.S. military says 1,000 targets hit, 3 Americans killed

Central Command says it struck ships, missile sites, command centers across Iran

Where Iran has retaliated across the Middle East, according to satellite images and videos

By Striking Its Neighbors, Iran Has Deepened the Gulf’s Resolve to Fight Back

Trump says Iran operation could take “four weeks or less,” 3 U.S. troops killed

Trump says operations will “continue until all of our objectives are achieved”

Trump says ‘we expect casualties’ after Iran strikes but ‘in the end it’s going to be a great deal for the world’

A girls’ elementary school was hit in Iran. Here’s what we know

Trump vows ‘most punishing blow to terrorists’ after US service members killed during Iran operation

Trump says U.S. destroyed 9 Iranian warships

Tariff News

Did Trump’s illegal tariffs cost your family $4,200?

Government Agency News

‘One year of failure.’ The Lancet slams RFK Jr.’s first year as health chief

Slater’s departure at DOJ signals new era for antitrust under Trump  

DHS funding impasse deepens as lawmakers blow by first payday

Labor secretary weathers the political storm swirling around her agency

Defense/Military News

Pentagon offers no evidence to support claim it attacked Iran in defense

Opinion

Editorial: A legislative ‘solution’ that only creates more loopholes

Opinion: The price of losing Abiqua Falls

Want to make difference in the lives of people in nursing homes?

America’s cost-of-living crisis is entering its most brutal phase

The attorney general needs to be independent

Let’s not throw the DEI baby out with the bathwater

Political questions: Not every issue can be resolved in federal court

Saving the SAVE Act — this one change can fix the American voting system 

At last, the credibility of U.S. deterrence is being restored

Trump’s Iran operation is the opposite of a ‘one and done’

Thanks to President Trump, the hour of Iran’s freedom is at hand

How the left punishes small business

There is no reason to think this war with Iran is necessary

It’s Too Soon for Iran ‘Off-Ramps’

A Tech Tax Revolt Against Democrats

Iran’s Regime Is Down, but It Isn’t Out

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