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June 21, 2025
  • Measure approved to limit National Guard deployment
  • Oregon wildfires burn 20,000 acres, 56 homes
  • Transportation bill hits reality roadblock
  • Car drives into crowd of ICE protesters
  • Homeownership slips further out of reach
  • Rep. Nguyen returns following cancer diagnosis
  • Intel to lay off marketing employees — Opting for AI
  • St. Helens mayor trying to dismiss ex-chief's lawsuit
  • 6 people arrested during ICE protests
  • Alder Springs Fire evacuation orders dropped
  • Incarcerated youth graduate with diplomas
  • MultCo shutters passport office due to budget
  • Court finds gun forensics method not ‘valid'
  • Free summer events, start Mon in Portland Parks
  • Gray whale numbers lowest since '70s
  • Oregon lawyer who dresses like it's 1893
  • Oregon life in the 1900s
  • Wildfire Map Update
    • June 20, 2025
  • Dems celebrate black drag on House floor — Republicans boycott
  • Millions of OR land acres to be sold
  • Police and feds split on ICE protests
  • Oregon peak taxes? (backtracks on gas tax, Kicker, income taxes)
  • Nicotine tax for wildfire funding
  • Ex-employees to sue MultCo DA for discrimination
  • Tribute to heroic Vietnam War sniper
  • Appeals court finds gun forensics not scientifically valid
  • Bills pass to bolster OR electric grid
  • Botox injection led to botulism?
  • Cellphone data to help Washington nab speeders
  • Oregon appeals contempt ruling over state hospital
  • Portland appoints police accountability board
  • Portland councilors approve $8.6 billion budget
  • Readers Respond to Prosper Portland Friction
  • Readers respond: Unemployment for strikers
  • SB 686: Gov't Control Over OR Media
  • Transportation tax: cancelled work sessions
  • Your rights if you get stopped by ICE
    • June 19, 2025
  • 2 Oregon Democrats balk at transportation bill
  • Kotek slams Preschool for All tax
  • Voter roll lawsuit faces uphill battle
  • Study bill on (raising) property taxes gets vote
  • Election mix-up flipped results of town measures
  • Feds demand Oregon Health Plan data — crackdown against immigrant coverage
  • Protest outside ICE facility gets tense
  • Bonamici talks ICE, Intel at town hall
  • Funding cuts for early childhood programs
  • Klamath Falls City Council adopts budget
  • Kotek opposes cuts to Medicaid, SNAP
  • Kotek signs laws on book bans, health care
  • Kotek's Education Accountability Bill Moves
  • Lawmakers to consider ski area insurance regs
  • MultCo jail guard accused of smuggling drugs — for boyfriend in jail
  • Multnomah County shutters passport services
  • Neighbors fear Pearl Dist. homeless shelter
  • New law to speed housing permit approvals
  • OR lawmakers to slash homeless prevention
  • Parks Director Is On Administrative Leave
  • Portlanders dissatisfied with city's affordability
  • Readers respond: Fixing Oregon's Bottle Bill
  • Reforms in settlement over wrongful jail death
  • Republicans urge ODFW keep fishing season open
  • Salem considers National Guard oversight
  • Scenes from Portland ICE protest
  • Tree Regulation Stripped From Urban Forestry
  • What the end of Columbia R. agreement means