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  1. 8 hours ago

    The vice presidential debate starts right now! Stream it here.

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    Phoenix-Talent superintendent Brent Barry says about 700 students lost their homes in the Almeda Fire. LISTEN:

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  3. 11 hours ago

    Portland Public Schools will stick with online classes through January 2021 at the earliest. The district says coronavirus trends and Oregon benchmarks don't support reopening any time soon.

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    13 hours ago

    Vancouver projects the pandemic will sap $13 million from its tax rolls in the next two biennium. Latest proposal is to patch that up by freezing jobs and drawing from reserves.

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  5. 13 hours ago

    Vice President Pence and California Sen. Kamala Harris square off in the first and only vice presidential debate tonight at 6 p.m. PT.

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    Two state senators are vying to be Oregon’s next secretary of state. Democrat won the May primary by a very slim margin and now faces Republican Kim Thatcher in the general election. We talk with candidates.

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  7. 16 hours ago

    The president's advice to disregard COVID-19 has angered and embarrassed coronavirus survivors in the Northwest and beyond.

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  8. 17 hours ago

    mayoral candidate Sarah Iannarone’s campaign has asked a court to make the city auditor enforce a strict cap on the money candidates can lend themselves to fund their election efforts.

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    17 hours ago

    “I live right here and I’m trying to sleep. And you guys with your noisemakers and your goddam tear gas,” one elderly resident said, "you just about put me in the hospital tonight."

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  10. Oct 6

    Sarah Iannarone's campaign has taken the Portland city auditor to court for not enforcing voter-approved limits on self-funding political campaigns. Fellow mayoral candidate Ted Wheeler recently loaned his campaign $150,000 — 30 times the limit.

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  11. Oct 6

    Oregon will reevaluate "quite challenging" statewide metrics for reopening schools, the governor said.

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    Oct 6

    Sarah Iannarone's campaign is petitioning a court to get the city auditor to enforce the voter-approved $5,000 cap on how much candidates can loan themselves. The filing comes less than a week after Mayor Ted Wheeler loaned his own campaign $150,000.

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    Oct 6
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    Oct 6

    Oregon's coronavirus testing capacity is about to expand. Up to 80,000 additional tests per week to bolster contact tracing:

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  15. Oct 6

    In a newly launched pilot project, civilian mental health crisis responders are riding alongside Skagit County, Washington, sheriff’s deputies on 911 calls. It’s the latest example of reimagining policing in the Pacific Northwest.

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  16. Oct 6

    CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the number of rapid test kits coming to Oregon. The state is getting up to 80,000 kits to test people for COVID-19.

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  17. Oct 6

    CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the number of rapid test kits coming to Oregon. The state is getting up to 80,000 kits to test people for COVID-19.

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  18. Oct 6

    Through December, Oregon will receive enough kits to do up to 800,000 “rapid antigen tests” a week, more than double the state’s current capacity.

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  19. Oct 5

    A high-ranking prison official at the Deer Ridge Correctional Institution in Madras has been placed on leave amid a personnel investigation. From

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  20. Oct 5

    At the White House, Trump gingerly climbed the South Portico steps, removed his mask and declared, “I feel good.” His doctor said the president remains contagious and would not be fully “out of the woods” for another week.

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