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Oregon News

Drive sober or get pulled over: ‘Tis the season to make safe travel plans

Oregon’s experiment in tackling drug crisis starts with about 220 people in deflection

Snow in the mountains forecast to turn to rain, rivers rise

Oregon Political News

Lawmakers preview housing bills as many Oregonians face unaffordable rent or mortgage payments

Oregon task force ends work without unity on recommendations about raising alcohol taxes

Oregon’s red-blue divide widened this presidential election. See how your neighborhood voted

Metropolitan Portland News

How Portland’s next mayor plans to end unsheltered homelessness

Oregon Coast

County commission discuss budget shortfalls, jail cutbacks & departmental layoffs

Central/Eastern Oregon

Pendleton Warming Station volunteers keep the lights on

Mental Health Court helps Baker County residents overcome mental health, addiction problems

Willamette Valley Area

Lebanon residents to see trash-hauling rates go up

Southern Oregon

West recall election ballots due Tuesday

$890K donation, 6 school days cut give Ashland district short-term budget fix

Business News

Trump announces $100 billion SoftBank investment

Natural Resource News

Number of salmon returning to Columbia River Basin stays flat over last decade

With poor harvest, pear exports will be lowest since 1980s

Transportation News

The federal EV tax credit has an uncertain fate. What car shoppers should know

Health News

Trump says he’s a ‘believer’ in polio vaccine, and other news conference takeaways

Education News

A Wrinkle in the Preschool for All Program Creates Uncertainty for Some Families

An Oregon district upends the schedule to try to get middle schoolers what they need

Energy & Climate Change

Bipartisan energy deal push flops​

2023, 2024 climate change records defy scientific explanation

International News

Germany’s Scholz loses a confidence vote, triggering new elections

Ukraine and US say some North Korean troops have been killed fighting alongside Russian forces

Russia to prepare for war with NATO

National News

3 dead, others injured in a shooting at a private Christian school in Wisconsin

Multiple injuries, 3 deaths including shooter in Wisconsin school shooting

Number of salmon returning to Columbia River Basin stays flat over last decade

N.Y. judge denies Trump’s motion to throw out hush money conviction

National Political News

U.S. House Republicans settle on committee chairs for 2025

5 takeaways from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago press conference

Senate Democrats push plan to abolish Electoral College

Lawmakers signal movement toward government funding deal

As he prepares to leave leadership, McConnell challenges Trump on foreign policy

GOP senator pushes huge increase to child tax credit

Opinion

Small-town journalists fight back for free speech

Wreaths Across America: Sacrifice without remembrance is meaningless

A low, low point for ABC News

On the Waterfront With Donald Trump

Post-Assad Syria is a critical first test for the Trump Doctrine