June 2025 - Page 9

By BEN BOTKIN/Lookout Eugene-Springfield EUGENE — Eugene Airport officials are delaying plans to move forward with two improvement projects, including a multimillion concourse expansion, amid legal questions after the Trump administration has tried to tie compliance with federal immigration law to the federal grants that pay for the work. Eugene Airport and other airports across the nation are grappling with

By BRYCE DOLE/Oregon Public Broadcasting In 2024, homelessness increased in Oregon. Rental costs outpaced wages. Thousands of Oregonians faced eviction. For the second consecutive year, local governments issued fewer housing permits. Oregon’s housing crisis persists. On this, many Democrats and Republicans agree: In urban and rural communities alike, too many Oregonians struggle to live in a housing market with too few affordable homes. Where

By DIRK VANDERHART/Oregon Public Broadcasting SALEM — Oregon lawmakers would increase the state’s gas tax by 15 cents and increase or institute nearly 10 new taxes or fees under a transportation funding proposal expected to be released in coming days. The plan, laid out in a summary that has been circulating in Salem and beyond, amounts to Democrats’ best attempt

By SAMI EDGE/The Oregonian/OregonLive SALEM — A fight over whether transgender girls should be allowed to participate on girls sports teams boiled over in the Oregon House on Thursday, despite the fact that a bill to limit transgender students’ participation in Oregon sports was dead on arrival at 2025 Legislature. Republicans attempted to force a vote on a bill that would have

By DIRK VANDERHART/Oregon Public Broadcasting The Trump administration is wading into a court fight over whether Oregon does enough to scrub its voter rolls of ineligible voters. On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it would file a “statement of interest” in an ongoing suit between a number of conservative plaintiffs and the Oregon Secretary of State’s Office. The