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Photo courtesy of Joe BentleySharp increases in the cost of fuel, triggered by the U.S. war with Iran, are reverberating through the global economy. In the Pacific Northwest, commercial fishermen are grappling with surging costs for the diesel fuel that powers their boats along the West Coast fishing grounds. -
Larry Valenzuela/CalMattersAt $6 a gallon, California drivers are paying the highest gas prices in the nation. Gasoline supplies look stable for the next six weeks but are uncertain after that as California leans more on imports.
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Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read talks elections at virtual town hall ahead of primary. -
The decision could undercut a central point Oregon Democrats made to pass a law that could withstand legal challenges from the Trump administration. -
Advocates say 1 million unauthorized immigrants with California driver’s licenses are at risk under a state plan to share license information to a national database. -
The court’s ruling eliminates restrictions imposed by two federal judges in Oregon that strictly limited when federal officers could use tear gas on crowds outside the facility. -
Crude oil pumped from the depths of the Pacific Ocean is flowing for the first time in more than a decade through a pipeline that crosses California state park land after the Trump administration defied state officials to restart drilling off Santa Barbara, calling it essential to national security. -
The president is invoking an obscure law that allows the military to pollute waterways. -
California now has eight ICE detention centers. Two opened since President Trump took office in 2025, with both operating in former state prisons. -
A federal district judge in Oregon overturned Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s directive that said health care facilities providing gender-affirming care to minors are barred from Medicare and Medicaid. -
An analysis by KFF Health News found the health care program for low-income Californians lost almost 100,000 immigrants without legal status in the second half of 2025. -
In a legal battle between Trump and California over transgender and abortion care, will businesses be caught in a fight between hostile Justice Departments? -
President Donald Trump approved a disaster declaration for Oregon following winter storms that brought record rainfall and caused flooding, landslides and mudslides in eight counties. -
Federal officials announced in August they would terminate a 25-year-old rule protecting from development on nearly 60 million acres of forests, including 2 million in Oregon
