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Oregon News

Kotek discusses wildfire funding, BPA cuts with Trump administration

Key Oregon agency head to step down

Oregon judges ask for a raise, say they’re sometimes the lowest paid lawyer in the courtroom

State to pay $4M in settlement for youth suicide lawsuit 

Oregon Political News

Oregon Gov. Kotek, lawmakers push for more regional collaboration for homeless shelters and services

New Bill Would Allow Grocery Stores to Sell Cocktails in a Can

No more lunch debt? Oregon bill proposes universal free school meals

Measure making T-bone Oregon’s official steak advances

Metropolitan Portland News

Estacada city officials dissolve DEI committee, echoing national rhetoric

Metro President Flames County Over Homelessness Budget Hole

Portland City Council president pushes back on city’s ‘doom loop’ scenario

Elected officials ‘dismayed,’ ‘appalled’ by Multnomah County’s homeless budget shortfall

Oregon Coast

Bill introduced to protect beaches in Oregon, nationwide

Southern Oregon

ODF: Starting wildfire hazard map appeals process is quick and free

City of GP could boost notification requirements for proposed developments

Medford School Board declares NMHS gym as an ’emergency’

Town hall to discuss Oregon wildfire maps set for March 8

Business News

Inflation, looming trade war take a toll as confidence of the U.S. consumer tumbles

Review of payrolls shows higher hourly pay but lower overall earnings under farmworker overtime law

Public Safety

Portland-area advocates, police say steering drug users to treatment will take time

Natural Resource News

Firing of Forest Service workers raises concerns about Western wildfires

Health News

Upheaval and firings at CDC raise fears about disease outbreak response

Providence nurses across Oregon approve deal to end strike

Oregon’s flu season one of the worst in the past decade

Education News

Judge temporarily blocks DOGE access to Department of Education, personnel office systems

McMahon says she ‘wholeheartedly’ agrees with Trump plan to abolish Education Department

International News

Ukraine and US have agreed on a framework economic deal, Ukrainian officials say

National News

A federal judge in Seattle blocks Trump’s effort to halt the refugee admissions system

Judge limits ICE raids in places of worship involved in suit against Trump administration

Judge indefinitely blocks Trump’s plan to freeze federal aid

National Political News

21 DOGE staffers resign, saying they won’t help ‘dismantle’ public services

House Speaker Mike Johnson tries to push Trump’s ‘big’ agenda forward, but GOP votes are in jeopardy

Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk’s DOGE are expected to produce no savings

Musk has inside track to take over contract to fix air traffic communications system

Senators call for ICE to respect tribal sovereignty amid immigration enforcement

White House says it ‘will determine’ which news outlets cover Trump, rotating traditional ones

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ in danger as GOP House struggles to pass budget blueprint

House passes GOP budget bill, setting up Senate talks on Trump agenda

Live updates: House Republicans adopts budget after Trump whips GOP holdouts

Musk push to downsize federal workforce runs into Cabinet roadblock

71 percent of Trump voters oppose Medicaid cuts: Poll

Murkowski: Senate colleagues shouldn’t ‘cede some of our authorities’ to Trump

Opinion

Lawmakers introduce dozens of proposed constitutional amendments

Trump’s Trumpy Ukraine Gambit

Urgent plea to Bill, George and Barack: Get up off the couch

Moving fast and breaking things doesn’t work in government