The sale immediately raised concern about Camden and Mac Spillers’ growing influence in Battle Ground from some community members on local social media pages.
Disagreement over how to use a unique city funding source left Portland City Councilors unable to save public safety jobs slated to be cut in Mayor Keith Wilson’s budget.
Gov. Bob Ferguson is proposing a statewide ban on cellphones in Washington’s public schools. Neighboring Oregon is among a majority of states banning or restricting the devices.
On this week’s episode of “OPB Politics Now,” reporters Lauren Dake, Dirk VanderHart and special guest Jeff Mapes talk about Bob Packwood’s political history and his downfall, which was one of the more shocking scandals in Congressional history. Find the show wherever you get your podcasts.
The hundreds of new policies include removing barriers to supportive housing, restricting the use of in-school restraints and punishing cop impersonators.
UO launched the Ballmer Institute in 2022. Its core goal is to address Oregon’s lack of child behavioral health services, which is limited by a shortage of trained workers.
On Wednesday, Republican lawmakers pushed to repeal the “roadless rule” in the Wildfire Prevention Act, a wildfire bill introduced with bipartisan support last year. The provision all but guarantees the bill’s failure, Democratic leaders say, at a time when wildfire prevention work is most needed.
During a months-long campaign last fall, federal officers stopped farmworkers driving to their jobs and whisked away mothers in the middle of shopping for their children. Part 2 of OPB’s documentary series “The Crackdown” chronicles the operation and its impact on the Pacific Northwest.
In a class-action lawsuit filed Thursday in Marion County Circuit Court, they argue the state’s prison system is violating the Oregon Constitution, which prohibits the “harsh, degrading, or dehumanizing treatment of prisoners.”
Brothers Camden and Mac Spiller announced Wednesday they have purchased the Battle Ground Reflector.
Disagreement over how to use a unique city funding source left Portland City Councilors unable to save dozens of public safety jobs slated to be cut in Mayor Keith Wilson’s budget.
Gov. Bob Ferguson is proposing a statewide ban on cellphones in Washington's public schools. Neighboring Oregon is among a majority of states banning or restricting the devices.
Thursday marks 90 days since the end of the 2026 legislative session. Some laws passed in Olympia this year will take force later, while others are already on the books.
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Packwood, who died last week, was at the center of one of the most shocking sex scandals in Congressional history.
The second episode of OPB’s documentary series “The Crackdown” chronicles the operation and its impact on the Pacific Northwest.
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In recent years, the state Department of Corrections’ use of disciplinary segregation has trended upward, according to data. Several prisoners say the agency is violating Oregon’s Constitution.
