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07-09-2025 9:01 am • PDX and SEA Weather
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Faith Kipyegon, from Kenya, runs in an attempt to become the first woman to run a mile in under four minutes, at Stade Charlety in Paris, Thursday, June 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Kipyegon, a three-time Olympic champion in the event, bested her own record of 3:49.04, set last July before the Paris Games.
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FILE - Students use their cellphones as they leave for the day the Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts High School in downtown Los Angeles, Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
Executive Order 25-09 establishes statewide policy cell phone use in K-12 school
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Sen. Mark Meek (D-Oregon City)
Proposed amendment would mean end to universal preschool program, county says.
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Justice Rajee, director of Reimagine Oregon, speaks at the Don’t Play with House Money press conference
Juneteenth is a young federal holiday, but the Black day of independence has been observed since June 19, 1865.
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A block of West Albina businesses, torn down as part of the city's urban renewal campaign of the 1970s. Courtesy Oregon Historical Society
Black residents who were forcibly relocated for Emanuel Hospital expansion that never happened, and their descendants, sued over loss of property, wealth and community.
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Laura Lo Forti, co-founder and director of the VanPort Mosaic Festival. (courtesy VanPort Mosaic Festival)
Two-week event honors survivors of VanPort flood, their descendants and survivors of Japanese Internment in annual festival.
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Chabre Vickers, director of equity, policy and communications for Prosper Portland (photo courtesy Prosper Portland)
Oregon's trailblazing bottle redemption law may undergo changes because of concerns that redemption centers have become gathering places for drug users and homeless people while having no services to support them. Proposed changes could allow nonprofits to run alternative bottle redemption centers possibly mobile centers such as trucks. Stores could stop accepting bottles after 8pm and convenience stores in some areas after 6pm
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Bernie and Bobbie Foster toast, along with the crowd, to The Skanner's 50 years of service. (Photo by Antonio Harris)
More than 200 people raised their glasses to toast The Skanner’s 50th anniversary at the Oregon Convention Center on April 24.
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