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Oregon/Northwest News
Gene Derfler, ‘generational leader’ in Oregon Legislature, dies at 101
Public invited to share input, ideas for getting Oregon back on track to meet climate targets
Oregon State Hospital is back in federal compliance but facing yet another outside investigation
Oregon gas prices just jumped 25 cents in one week. Which counties are paying the most?
Oregon Legislative & Political News
Interstate Bridge cost soars 140%, adding billions to project estimate
Climate policies took a back seat to budget, other concerns in recent Oregon legislative session
Portland/Metro News
Environmentalists say Washington County renewable energy project is too near national wildlife refuge
Trump administration appeals tear gas restrictions near Portland ICE building
Portland superintendent’s daughter lands job with firm awarded $61M school district contract
‘Unprofessional and inappropriate’: Board chair dinged for text message but cleared of discrimination, harassment allegations
Portland ICE protests ‘dead,’ livestreamer says as he wraps up criminal case with payment, probation
Oregon Coast News
A hospital on Oregon’s coast was on the brink of catastrophe until an unlikely alliance stepped up
Southern Oregon News
La Clinica opens new mobile health center on wheels, serving Jackson County
Mercy Medical Center makes NRHA’s 2026 Top 20 Rural and Community Hospitals
Medford to turn off controversial camera, place another nearby
Gold Hill scores $1.5M state grant for water system updates
‘No Kings’ protests planned March 28 across Rogue Valley, US
Wyden pushes for federal action to save Klamath Basin water
Patsy Smullin to receive 2026 History Makers Award
Business/Economic News
Millions of taxpayers could be due a COVID-era refund from the IRS. Are you one of them?
Hassett says consumer pain over Iran war ‘the last of our concerns right now’
Tricky negotiations begin Monday to renew a trade pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada
What $5 diesel fuel means for the U.S. economy
How the Iran war is an economic world war
Education News
Judge permanently blocks Ten Commandments displays at several Arkansas school districts
Energy & Environment News
Is New York’s climate law spiking your energy bill?
Exclusive: Gallego presses DOE on oil reserve as gas prices rise
Health Care News
Oregon Lays Out Core Public Health Goals for Years Ahead
Transportation News
Airline chief hopes DHS shutdown ends for TSA by April
TSA official: ‘Not hyperbole’ to suggest airports may close if shutdown persists
Sununu on TSA workers, DHS shutdown: ‘I don’t think there’s a breaking point’
TSA problems loom for spring break
Epstein News
Attorney General Pam Bondi subpoenaed to answer questions from Congress about the Epstein files
Justice & Court News
Chief Justice: ‘Personally directed hostility is dangerous, and it’s got to stop’
Federal judge halts RFK Jr.’s changes to children’s vaccine policies
Judge skeptical over Trump ballroom project amid new bid to halt it
Chief Justice: Personal attacks on judges are “dangerous and it’s got to stop”
Judge orders Trump administration to restore Voice of America’s operations
Immigration/ICE News
Trump administration appeals tear gas restrictions near Portland ICE building
Immigration enforcement threatens housing security, rippling through local economies
International News
What to know about the deepening economic and political turmoil in Cuba
Cuba Struggles to Revive Obsolete Power Grid After Nationwide Blackout
Polls/Surveys
Latest Polls
Axios-Ipsos poll: Americans distrust Trump vaccine policies
National Campaigns/Elections
As Trump keeps Texas guessing, neither Cornyn nor Paxton backs down from Republican Senate runoff
$50 million push hopes to make child care a top issue in midterm elections
NRCC names 9 candidates to rebranded MAGA Majority program
Texas Democrats bullish about winning back Latino voters
Brendan Carr’s ‘equal time’ curveball crashes the midterms
National Political News
Joe Kent resignation over Iran war reveals an internal MAGA Trump division
GOP lawmaker argues Marines on Kharg Island would not be ‘boots on the ground’
Luna lays into Senate over SAVE Act inaction
Rising: March 17, 2026
Sanders presses Cassidy for hearing on RFK Jr. vaccine claims
Inside Dems’ new gambit to win the DHS shutdown fight
House conservatives revolt over stalled SAVE Act
Republicans and Dems are aligned: Don’t mess with NIH funding
National Congressional News
The Postal Service may be out of cash in 2027 without Congress’ help, postmaster says
Republicans are launching a voting bill debate that could last days or even weeks
Johnson says Democrats’ pitch to fund DHS without ICE, CBP would ‘defund the police’
Senate votes to begin marathon debate on SAVE America Act
Republicans collide with Trump over no-excuse absentee voting, SAVE Act
Clyburn: SAVE America Act ‘nothing but a throwback’ to Jim Crow laws
Democrats introducing measure expa‘Foreseeable future’: Senate begins debate on SAVE
Capitol Police budget request tops $1 billion
Rayburn building deemed at risk in push for major funding boost
Thune sounds alarm on threats at home as Dems refuse to budge in funding fight
Thune tackles biggest test yet as Senate launches SAVE Act debate
Capitol agenda: House hard-liner headaches ahead
Trump/Administration News
How Trump’s Treasury is shifting sanctions to punish his critics and reward friends
What to know about the resignation of Joe Kent as Trump’s counterterrorism chief
‘I do believe I’ll have the honor of taking Cuba’: Trump says
Trump says that he’s asked ‘about 7′ countries to join coalition to police Iran’s Strait of Hormuz
Trump administration to media: Report on the war the ‘patriotic’ way
Trump’s Homeland Security pick will inherit a department beset by challenges
White House reviews Democratic offer to reopen Homeland Security
Hassett says consumer pain over Iran war ‘the last of our concerns right now’
Gabbard: Trump concluded Iran posed an imminent threat
Trump orders task force to counter fraud in SNAP, nutrition programs
Israel urges Iranians to revolt but privately assesses they’ll be ‘slaughtered’
Israel says it killed Iran’s top security official, along with paramilitary boss
“No imminent threat”: U.S. Counterterrorism Center head resigns over Iran war
Trump ramps up press pressure over Iran war coverage
How giving $1M to Trump’s team helped make him a top contender for Georgia governor
Trump presses allies for Hormuz pledges, but not specifics
‘Never heard him so angry’: Trump is furious that global allies aren’t pitching in in Iran
Middle East Conflict News
Southwest Washington’s Kent resigns over Trump’s Iran war, says Iran posed no imminent threat
Trump says most allies and NATO refuse to help secure the Strait of Hormuz
Satellite images begin to show damage wrought by Iran war
Iran keeps up attacks on neighbors after it confirms Israel killed 2 of its top officials
Iran confirms Ali Larijani’s death: ‘Martyred’
Macron: France ‘will never take part’ in operations to open Strait of Hormuz
Israel’s Decapitation Strategy Wipes Out Two Top Iranians
More than a dozen Reaper drones have been lost in Iran operations, US officials say
Israel targets more Iran leaders as allies reject Trump’s calls for help
Why the death of Iran’s top security official is significant
Meanwhile, Israel says it will continue to target Iran’s new supreme leader
EU rejects Trump’s calls for deployments to reopen Strait of Hormuz
Three paths for Iran after US strikes crush key assets, next steps come into focus
Most NATO members reject U.S.-led Hormuz Strait coalition, Trump says