Latest News & Opinion Stories

Oregon/Northwest News

‘Devastating for a lifetime:’ State declares recovery complete on 2020 wildfires, victims say otherwise

New Oregon survey for businesses facing wildfire losses could inform disaster assistance  

Union Report Finds Oregon’s Universities Hired Administrators as Instructional and Classified Staff Lagged

Wildfire News

Fire ban issued in Willamette National Forest

Wildfires still causing poor air quality in central, eastern Oregon

Crews battling new wildfire near Summer Lake

MONDAY UPDATE: All evacuation levels canceled for Fielder Mountain Fire near Rogue River

MORNING UPDATE: Mop-up continues on Fielder Mountain Fire near Rogue River

Containment reaches 29% for the Fielder Mountain Fire

Various downgrades announced for Wrights Spring Fire

Lightning storms cause several small fires, but aid Wrights Spring firefighting efforts

Oregon Coast News

Oregon to start testing ropeless crabbing gear next spring to stop whale entanglements

Central/Eastern Oregon News

This Harney County Republican’s District Covers 37% of Oregon. Much of It Is Burning This Summer.

Willamette Valley/Salem News

After Portland’s billion-dollar success, another Oregon city eyes a clean energy fund

UPDATE Firefighters stop vegetation fire on Skinner Butte

Southern Oregon News

Medford presents suggestions for downtown parking improvements

AI/Technology News

What happens to the secrets you share with AI

Business/ Economic News

Why prescription drug prices are plunging

Drugmakers uninterested in Trump’s order to split up MMR vaccine

OCCU wants to sell its 10-acre headquarters in Eugene to Costco

Energy & Environmental News

Wildfires become a grid planning challenge

Healthcare News

Kindergarten MMR vaccine coverage still below ideal rate to prevent outbreaks: CDC

Media News

Trump rips Fox News anchor Shannon Bream: ‘Beyond redemption’

Rising: August 17, 2026

Natural Resource/Agriculture News

Lake Powell, second-largest reservoir in US, hits record-low water level

Court & Justice News

Blanche: Congress has already approved White House ballroom project

Blanche: Trump administration may seek Supreme Court intervention in state voter rolls fight

Supreme Court asked to review Texas’s Ten Commandments requirement for schools 

Immigration/ICE News

Big Bend border wall construction paused by Trump administration

ICE pitches legal insurance to help shield local officers who make immigration arrests

International News

British prime minister exchanged messages with a Susie Wiles impersonator

UK defense secretary’s phone number found online after Burnham hit by texting scam

Xi Jinping will skip UN ahead of Trump summit

The global stakes of China’s slowdown

Iraq oil pipeline plan would take years to build, cost billions: Report

Poll & Surveys

Trump’s approval drops 2 points in 2 weeks: Reuters/Ipsos poll

Democrats lead Republicans on economy heading into midterms: Poll

Californians divided on billionaire tax, new poll shows

23 percent of Republicans say they’re worse off since second Trump term began: Survey

National Campaign/Elections

Older Democrats walloped by midterms anti-establishment revolt

The Democratic establishment’s ideas deficit

Baldwin: ‘No ICE at our polling places’

Gingrich: Midterms offer choice of ‘big government socialism and weird values’ or Republicans

Rating changes: 10 of 11 races shift toward Democrats

Alaska Senate candidates attempt to link each other to Epstein

Hegseth to go to Iowa today to campaign for GOP candidates, sources say

In Florida, Wasserman Schultz sparks a debate over what representation means in diverse districts

National Political News

Democratic senator: Trump’s praise of North Korea is ‘delusional’

Progressives to combat Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’ at PanAmerican Congress

National Congressional News

Ethics Committee probing Jimmy Gomez for ‘inappropriate sexual contact with a House staffer’

Trump/Administration News

Trump votes by mail again in his home state of Florida

Trump downplays worries over Burnham’s exchange with Wiles impersonator

Trump’s rosy Hormuz claims collide with tanker data

Trump fails to undo E. Jean Carroll verdict at Supreme Court

Trump: Vandals to blame for damaged grass at July 4 celebration site

4 things to know about Treasury Department’s repeal of reporting requirement for US businesses

Trump defends move to cut back U.S.-South Korea military exercises

Trump says Kim Jong Un has responded to request for conversation

Trump calls concerns about conditions on USS Lincoln ‘fake’

Middle East Conflict News

Kushner urges Netanyahu to test Hamas disarmament in Gaza

Dems plan Oman war powers push after Trump threatens bombing

Trump’s Iran strategy opens Pacific security gap

Live updates: Trump says US has ‘total control’ in Strait of Hormuz

60 days after signing Iran deal, Trump is stuck in a quagmire as war drags on

President threatens to bomb Oman if it ‘gets in the way’

Iran’s Secret Plan to Escalate the War

Trump contradicts Vance, says nukes, not oil prices, No. 1 priority in Iran

The Iran war is forcing families to choose between school for their kids or survival

Defense/Military

Extended carrier deployment bad for the Navy, Ruben Gallego says

Democratic lawmakers demand answers from Hegseth on USS Abraham Lincoln

Centcom commander visits USS Abraham Lincoln amid questions about conditions on ship

New recruits are joining the military in big numbers, but not for reason Hegseth says

Opinion

Is Congress finally ready to take its ethics woes seriously?

The ‘political Supreme Court’ trope is part of a media disinformation campaign

The clean energy revolution has a mining problem

Accounting belongs in K-12 STEM education

We need to fix America’s illegal vape problem

How the national debt got this bad