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Oregon News

Oregon towns work to buy their drinking watersheds, even if it takes generations

State analysis claimed surge in gun background checks. Oregon State Police disagree.

Oregon Political News /Polls

As Special Session Looms on Transportation Funding, ODOT Quietly Offers Alternative to New Taxes

Oregon Wildfire News

Oregon fire map & tracker

InciWeb – Oregon Wildfire Tracker

Crews keep Flat Fire from moving toward Sisters

OPB’s First Look: Flat Fire rages in Central Oregon

Flat Fire destroys 4 homes, threatens thousands more with no containment in Central Oregon

Flat Fire destroys 4 homes, Emigrant Fire blows up

Emigrant and Sugar Loaf Fire burning in Lane County: What to know

Umpqua National Forest sees multiple fires start

Portland/Metro News

Opening date announced for controversial overnight homeless shelter in Portland’s Pearl District

Central & Eastern Oregon News

Oregon counties to choose solar farm siting path

Willamette Valley/Salem News

Marion County crisis response team returns at reduced capacity

Corvallis hears watered-down report about how public really feels about city hall

Southern Oregon

Teamwork and a good cause come together for Caveman football team

Business & Economic News

Wall Street welcomes rate cuts but ignores the risks

In the Trump era, the economic elite find themselves in the wilderness

Tax rate for ultrarich drops dramatically after GOP tax cuts: Study

Cracker Barrel releases statement following backlash over rebranded logo

Top Trump adviser: ‘Possible’ administration takes stakes in more businesses

Education News

Public schools in a bind amid enrollment declines

Energy & Environment

Hurricane science has come far since Katrina. That progress is now at risk

Health News

Trump’s widening war on gender-affirming care

Vaccine skeptic to lead CDC COVID immunization working group

Natural Resource News

USDA: National forest energy projects to ‘maximize output per acre’ 

International News

Trump eases tone on South Korea instability after meeting President Lee

Trump, South Korea’s Lee signal openness to Kim Jong Un

National News

Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art

Abrego Garcia shielded from deportation as judge questions legal process

This blue state is the first to grapple with megabill response

FEMA staffers accuse Trump of weakening disaster programs

Russian aircraft intercepted off Alaska for third time in a week

Gorsuch, Kavanaugh warn lower court judges in Trump cases

National Campaign News/Polls

Dems brace for battle over 2028 primary calendar to ‘explode’

Trump vows lawsuits against California redistricting, blue slips

California Republicans announce second legal challenge against Newsom’s redistricting effort

54 percent of voters say Trump’s actions in DC are justified: Poll

Majority of voters say Epstein transparency is important to their views on Trump: Poll

66 percent of voters support Trump’s efforts to end Ukraine war: Poll

National Political News

First wave of Epstein files is being sent to Congress, says Oversight Committee chair

Trump moves to ban flag burning despite Supreme Court ruling that Constitution allows it

Trump battles with US Senate Judiciary’s Grassley over home-state picks for judges

Do you want to file your taxes for free? Taxpayer input sought as federal program faces elimination

Trump denies being a dictator as he threatens new National Guard deployment

Trump sending National Guard to Chicago will be trickier than D.C. deployment

Trump threatens ABC and NBC over “BAD STORIES”

Trump’s D.C. utopia

Trump says he could rename Department of Defense to Department of War soon

Grassley defends blue-slip rule following Trump criticism

Speaker Johnson says Trump deserves Nobel Peace Prize for DC police takeover

Vance: White House ceremony fixes ‘wrong’ after Biden’s Afghanistan ‘incompetence’

Tariff/Trade News

European, Asian shippers cut U.S. off as tariff deadline nears

Government Employee News

CDC finalizes roughly 600 layoffs; union says workforce ‘decimated’

Opinion

So much for states’ rights: Now Trump wants to control the voting process

Washington bureaucracy must stand aside and let America build

Donald Trump’s record-breaking race to wreck the planet 

Trump’s Russia Contradiction