Ryan Haas

Washington’s Department of Ecology could not say definitively where the smell came from, but noted a Longview paper mill may have been involved.

Turmoil in St. Helens began earlier this year and rapidly intensified in November as the scope of alleged abuse inside schools there became clearer.

The job cuts will be the second round at the Bend Bulletin in the past six months.

The amount of reporting produced in Oregon has been declining for decades — a fact that is likely unsurprising to Oregonians who have seen their newspapers thin and local coverage shrink. It’s a trend that has been playing out across the country as the business of producing journalism has faltered alongside the rise of the internet.

The Ashland Daily Tidings — established as a newspaper in 1876 — ceased operations in 2023, but if you were a local reader, you may not have known because of an elaborate scam using artificial intelligence.

The job cuts will be the second round at the Bend Bulletin in the past six months

Earlier this month, Carpenter Media Group laid off two newsroom staff at its papers, and proposed more job cuts at the Bulletin as a way to reduce its operating costs since buying dozens of papers in Oregon this year.

The Ashland Daily Tidings, a newspaper in Southern Oregon, shut down in 2023 after nearly 150 years in business. So…why are new articles being posted on its former website nearly every day? Who’s putting them there? And how does artificial intelligence fit in?

Speaking to reporters Monday, President Trump justified his decision to pardon Jan. 6 rioters by claiming that prosecutors took a lighter touch with activists aligned with racial justice protests in 2020.

The last time the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality compiled comprehensive data on nitrate ground pollution in the Lower Umatilla Basin was 2012. More than a decade later, Oregonians have their first fresh look at nitrate levels in the region, and it’s concerning.