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Three years after Oregon lawmakers passed a law requiring insurers to cover transgender medical services, state regulators have quietly delayed their efforts to ensure the law is making a difference …
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By Jake Thomas / Oregon Capital Chronicle
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10/12/26
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Across the Pacific coast, reports of large whales tangled in buoys, gillnets and other fishing equipment are increasing.
In 2025, Washington was among four states where nearly 80% of …
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By Aspen Ford / The Washington State Standard
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10/12/26
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Oregon has long been a popular destination for workers who live elsewhere.
That’s largely because Portland sits on the border with Washington, an urban center directly adjacent to suburban …
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Mike Rogoway / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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10/11/26
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A drone equipped with an infrared heat sensor joined the search on Saturday, Oct. 10, for a 75-year-old woman missing since Thursday morning in the Wallowa Mountains about 28 air miles northeast of …
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Jayson Jaco / Baker City Herald, Ore. (TNS)
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10/11/26
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Over four days and more than 45 miles walked, a group of protesters making a pilgrimage between immigration enforcement sites in King County is drawing a line between mounting immigrant detentions …
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Kai Uyehara / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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10/11/26
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In the artificial intelligence race, Amazon and other companies worth trillions of dollars are competing to secure as much electricity as they can to power as many chips as possible. Their gargantuan …
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Greg Kim / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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10/11/26
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As frontier artificial intelligence labs once again caution about the speed of the technology’s development, Microsoft released a code of conduct for how it plans to clamp down on its own AI …
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Alex Halverson and Destiny Muller / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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10/11/26
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A company report, accepted by state regulators, said that in late November a hole opened within the bowels of a pulp and paper mill and, briefly, poured a small stream of untreated wastewater into …
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Conrad Swanson / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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10/11/26
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Ruby Mushkin leaned back in a lawn chair and looked out over the Columbia River. She had plenty to say about U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, the Democrat facing Republican state Sen. John Braun in …
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Anumita Kaur / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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10/11/26
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More than 440,000 homes and businesses from Pennsylvania to Florida are without power and flood threats are rising at both ends of the country as the U.S. deals with a rare double tropical threat …
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Brian K. Sullivan / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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10/11/26
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President Donald Trump demanded that Volodymyr Zelenskyy halt attacks on Russian oil refineries and suggested he should consider stepping aside as Ukraine’s president, escalating a fight centered …
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Catherine Lucey / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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10/11/26
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A key southwest Washington congressional race that could help determine control of the U.S. House has shifted in Democrats’ favor, according to the Cook Political Report.
The influential …
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Gosia Wozniacka / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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10/10/26
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One of the four men who prosecutors say flew from Florida to Portland in 2023 to kidnap a local man and steal his cryptocurrency, ultimately binding the man naked to a post in a rural Washington …
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Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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10/10/26
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Parents of children who attend Childswork Learning Center are demanding an independent investigation into the Southeast Portland preschool after learning about a sexual-abuse allegation against a …
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Sophia Cossette / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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10/10/26
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents blasted more than two dozen protesters with tear gas after the group attempted to block their vehicles Saturday morning in Northeast Salem, according …
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Shane Dixon Kavanaugh / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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10/10/26
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Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed an executive order Friday to suspend for 30 days state inspections of dyed diesel fuel in an attempt to lower costs for farmers and ranchers, according to the …
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By Laura Guido / Idaho Capital Sun
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10/10/26
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has donated $1 million to an Idaho political action committee, or PAC, opposing the abortion rights initiative on the ballot this November.
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By Laura Guido / Idaho Capital Sun
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10/10/26
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Seismic surveys, well drilling, ice road construction and other wintertime oil exploration activities on federal lands on the western North Slope will no longer be subject to case-by-case …
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By Yereth Rosen / The Alaska Beacon
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10/10/26
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The leader of Washington’s Department of Children, Youth and Families was questioned this week about her agency’s commitment to equity amid allegations of racial bias in the agency made by two …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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10/10/26
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On the 296th episode, local man Aaron VanTuyl and Chronicle editor Eric Schwartz discuss Friday’s story on Sheriff Rob Snaza addressing the allegations by Sheriff candidate Tracy Murphy about the …
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10/10/26
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