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Oregon/Northwest News

Oregon’s virtual charter schools are booming, helped by financial incentives for home-schooling families

Oregon schools fall short on grad rate goals, audit warns

Pacific Power to charge new Oregon data centers for all costs associated with growing energy need

Oregon narrows LGBTQ+ foster youth protections after losing federal appeals case

Oregon regulators nix higher fees for psilocybin after industry backlash

Wildfire News

Did the Grasshopper Fire Have to Be So Bad?

Portland/Metro News

Portland police chief accused of violating state law by criticizing city councilor’s past tweets

Washington County commissioner decries ‘culture of fear’ cultivated by recently resigned chair

Portland councilors seek major expansion of city’s CEO pay-gap tax

The next Clackamas sheriff will inherit a budget gap. 2 insiders want the job

Editorial endorsement November 2026: Elect Joe Hagedorn as Multnomah County’s next family law judge

Editorial endorsement November 2026: Choose Diane Sykes for Multnomah County judge, Position 2

Who should decide how Portland spends $16 million a year? Voters will weigh in

A City Campaign Finance Officer Lobbied Councilors in Her Free Time Last Year

Secretary of State Refers Portland Public Schools to Department of Justice for Criminal Investigation Over Procedeo Contract

Portland City Councilors Seek to Raise Taxes on Companies With Highly Paid CEOs and Exempt More Small Businesses From Business Tax

What Divides the Portland City Council?

Portlanders’ Feelings of Representation by the City Council Are Returning to Their Dismal Baseline

Central/Eastern Oregon News

Sisters approaches final hurdles to approve urban growth boundary amendment map

Texas geothermal company gets $135 million funding boost to continue superhot rock exploration at Oregon’s Newberry Volcano

A Deschutes County sheriff candidate could be fired for dishonesty — unless he’s elected first

New health insurance agency opens doors in Hermiston

Willamette Valley/Salem News

Phil and Penny Knight give $1B to launch UO engineering school

Portlanders’ Feelings of Representation by the City Council Are Returning to Their Dismal Baseline

Salem-Keizer projects $46M budget reduction next school year

Food truck businesses ask Corvallis council for relief from high fees

Southern Oregon News

Grants Pass officials float idea of car camp for homeless

Lots of politicians chafe at press criticism. No president has been so brazen as Trump.

Asante purchased Medford surgery center property in July, has no current plans for building

Medford School District under fire from both employee unions over contract, pay

Federal raid targets drug trafficking ring in Jackson County

RCC Annual Report reveals enrollment growth

AI/Technology News

Worries about an AI internet takeover gain new urgency among doomsday scenarios

Heads of AI firms tell UN Security Council that it could be a risk to all humanity

US diplomats told to use term ‘super intelligence’ not ‘artificial intelligence’ after Trump’s call

Senators try to ‘get to the bottom of’ AI-powered surveillance networks amid Flock concerns

Meta’s New AI Agent Is an Instant Hit—and the Backlash Has Already Begun

Business/ Economic News

Downtown Portland sees boost in visitor numbers, while office workers stay home

Oregon Loses Skilled Trade Workers to Neighboring States as High Unemployment Persists

A Perfect Storm Is Raging in the Bond Market

Education News

Oregon Department of Education fails to track what works best to improve high schools, audit finds

Oregon’s virtual charter schools are booming, helped by financial incentives for home-schooling families

Energy & Environmental News

How a ban of diesel exports could lead to higher prices — even in the U.S.

Healthcare News

Nurse blasts Oregon State Hospital leadership in letter to agency head: ‘People are disgusted’

Patients sue GLP-1 makers over sudden loss of vision

States can soon access covid vaccines for low-income children, after delay

Media News

Judge skeptical of White House press ban on Politico, MS NOW, CNN: Due process ‘wasn’t followed’

Rising: September 23, 2026

FACT FOCUS: No, Biden did not revoke the White House press passes of more than 400 journalists

Jon Stewart curses out Trump over press ban: ‘Have you tried presidenting better?’

Sports News

Is the ‘Trump curse’ to blame for Jaxson Dart’s injury? Giants QB introduced president at May rally

Weather News

El Niño could kill 450K. Map shows states hit hardest

Greenland News

Trump’s push to acquire Greenland almost broke NATO. The winner of it all may be … Greenland

Court News

Trump administration’s Washington voter roll lawsuit dismissed

Major news outlets banned by Trump will have their day in court

Judge hears arguments without ruling on Trump’s ban on news organizations from White House

Iowa judge dismisses Trump’s lawsuit against Des Moines Register and pollster

Judge skeptical of White House press ban on Politico, MS NOW, CNN: Due process ‘wasn’t followed’

Kagan steers Supreme Court clear of high-profile surrogacy fight

Immigration/ICE News

Federal judge to decide if ICE violated court order over warrantless arrests in Oregon

ICE is looking into ‘mobile detention facilities’

International News

Iran’s president delivers wartime address at UN: We have been ‘victims of terrorism’

Zelenskyy, at UN, urges leaders to keep choking Russia’s revenues and impede its war efforts

Xi makes first state visit to US since 2015 after making China into a global force

Zelensky says AI will soon ‘decide what happens on the battlefield’

Venezuela’s opposition leader blocked 3 times from returning to country

Iran’s president tells U.N. his country ‘must be powerful so as to avoid being threatened’

Javier Milei blasts UN as ‘useless’ den of ‘fatally arrogant parasites’ in raucous speech

Poll & Surveys

Latest Polls

How rural voters are feeling about Trump as the midterms approach, according to a new AP-KFF poll

New poll in reliably red state should set off alarm bells for Trump Republican

National Campaign/Elections

Billionaire’s political contributions make the Epstein files a focus of Ohio’s US Senate race

Talarico works to reach Black voters in his bid to win a US Senate seat as a Democrat in Texas

Republicans dump cash into red states as they try to hold the line against Democrats in the midterms

Democrats in competitive races fight back against GOP’s communist labels

Ken Paxton’s estranged wife tells GOP women: Vote Republican ‘even if we’re mad’

Cruz rips ‘right-wing socialism,’ says GOP shouldn’t be ‘giving away free stuff’

Collins rips report on pay-for-play allegations: ‘Partisan hit job’ 

DDHQ shifts Florida governor race to toss-up

El-Sayed grills reporter for asking about ‘flip-flopping’ on Harris

Ohio TV stations ignore legal threat from Max Miller, air opponent’s ad: Report

Justice Department indicts former postal worker for tossing out mail-in ballots in Utah

In South Texas, Bobby Pulido urges voters to see beyond red and blue

Voters to Republicans: Fix the Biden economy

Nancy Mace: Republicans will ‘for SURE’ lose Senate race in North Carolina

Democrats are already making moves to run for president. Here’s who’s doing what.

GOP appears deeply worried about Senate race in N.C., a once reliably red state

Miami Republican faces backlash after publicly giving Trump immigration advice

MAGA Podcasters Are Tuning Out Trump. We Tracked What They Are Talking About Now.

With Trump at record unpopularity, Republicans face bleak midterm landscape

Cook nudges three Senate races toward Democrats

NRSC Chair Tim Scott leaves Georgia, North Carolina off his list of top Senate targets

National Political News

More Americans lose SNAP as Congress weighs food stamps’ future

Collins: White House backing down from NIH grant order

Exclusive: Thune believes Trump is open on AI guardrails

National Congressional News

Sen. Bernie Sanders unveils bill to ban artificial superintelligence and create Department of AI

Johnson calls for ‘resolution’ of Iran war

Trump/Administration News

Trump says his ballroom will house a drone port. The Secret Service already has one next door

‘This is madness’: Trump staffers have a shocking national landmark in mind to name after president

Melania Trump gives shocking assessment of husband’s job performance: ‘Has a lot on his plate’

Trump roasted over bizarre announcement to UN General Assembly: ‘Beyond parody’

Peter Navarro calls on Cabinet secretaries, officials to boycott Fox

Capitol Ink | Trumphal Arch

Trump says administration is weighing diesel export restrictions

The White House banned Politico, citing anonymous sources. It provided the quotes.

Trump tells judge media ban is necessary to protect national security

‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues

Trump-Xi meeting comes amid tensions on Iran, Taiwan and trade: What to know

 Trump welcomes Xi for a White House summit set to be high on pageantry, low on substance

Scoop: Trump’s Board of Peace to unveil $2.45 billion Gaza recovery plan

 Trump to Venezuela’s Rodriguez: Elections need to happen

White House press ban remains as judge weighs case

Trump’s last-ditch hunt for voter fraud

Trump officials weigh rolling back beef import plan as GOP midterm panic spreads

Middle East Conflict News

WATCH: Iran’s president call out Trump and says nation will fight ‘until our last breath’

Defense/Military

Pete Hegseth confronts House with a lame-duck impeachment dilemma

Opinion

Commentary: Wildfires to come. Oregon’s next wildfire season could be worse

 Trump’s approval plunges into the 20s, and Republicans give up 

If billionaires can afford to donate millions to charity, they can afford to pay taxes, too

The First Amendment doesn’t come with an approval rating

Why the Air Force needs a new fleet metric

Venezuela is crying out for free elections. The US can make it happen.