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Although it will take in record revenue, Oregon will have about $500 million less to spend in the 2025–2027 budget cycle than previously forecast.

Legislators may appropriate $21 million to defend immigrants, as more than 5,500 criminal defendants await a court appointed attorney.

The arrest of a Sinaloa Cartel leader illegally residing in the state capital and dealing fentanyl has Oregon lawmakers reconsidering sanctuary policies.

The Oregon legislature is debating three new gun bills while the Oregon Supreme Court considers the fate of a ballot measure on hold since 2022.

Volunteer diver Juan Heredia of the Angels Recovery Dive Team recovered the toddler’s body from the Siletz River.

About 1,600 people without proof of citizenship were registered before the system was paused.

The temporary restraining order against Grants Pass came days after disability rights activists sued over local camping regulations.

The Supreme Court in June 2024 upheld a local ordinance in Grants Pass, Oregon, banning public camping.

The real William Woods spent 428 days in county jail and 147 days in a mental hospital after he tried to expose the thief.

Oregon’s evolving sanctuary laws aim to provide a firewall against the federal mass deportation plan targeting illegal immigrants.

Four state lawmakers are asking the DOGE to nix a federal plan to kill barred owls, long protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

The court found that the state’s conversational privacy statute does not violate Project Veritas’s free speech rights, as the group had argued.

Eleven states have active independence movements in response to what they see as an irredeemably corrupt federal government.

Twenty big cats including cougars and bobcats also died in a sanctuary from the infection.

Voters are increasingly pushing back against a 2020 ballot measure that legalized the therapeutic use of the substance in licensed centers.