OPB Staff

Heat advisories will be in place for most of western Oregon and far Northern California this week, just as wildfire smoke blows in west of the Cascades, the National Weather Service says.

Wildfires in Oregon were burning more than 200,000 acres Sunday as crews were stretched to their limits working to contain them.

President Donald Trump said Iran must meet his latest deadline to strike a deal that includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz, or a “whole civilization will die”

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and the mayors of 31 Oregon cities, including Ashland, sent a letter to Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem and Border Czar Tom Homan, criticizing ICE tactics and citing use-of-force incidents in Minneapolis and Portland.

The Department of Homeland Security said the armed suspect had “violently resisted.”

People across Oregon and Washington demonstrated Tuesday against the Trump administration, one year into the president’s second term.

U.S. Senate and House Democrats from Oregon moved swiftly to condemn President Donald Trump’s Saturday morning announcement that the United States carried out a military strike in Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. They called the action unconstitutional, reckless and a dangerous escalation with global consequences.

Oregon military officials say that National Guard members remain deployed as of Wednesday.

Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced Friday that the state is filing a lawsuit to force the federal government to return a U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopter to Newport. Lincoln County and the nonprofit Newport Fisherman’s Wives group filed a similar lawsuit.

An unprecedented weekend put Portland at the center of national headlines, as President Trump continued his push to deploy National Guard members into the city over the objections of city and state elected officials and a federal judge.

The Moon Complex fire in Curry County has grown to more than 17,000 acres, prompting evacuation orders in Agness and Illahe. Gov. Tina Kotek has ordered extra wildfire crews as smoke creates unhealthy air quality across southern Oregon.

Outside of Portland, protests drew hundreds of people in Tigard, Madras, Pendleton, Medford and elsewhere across Oregon on Saturday, as part of the national “Hands Off” day of action.