Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy looks on in the first half of an NCAA college football game against BYU, Friday, Oct. 18, 2024, in Provo, Utah. (AP Photo/Spenser Heaps)AP What the frack, Mike Gundy? Got yourself the rights to a dry hole over there in Stillwater? Pour one out for the Oil Ball Coach. If you purchase a product …
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A rally on the front steps of the Oregon State Capitol, Aug. 29, 2025, where ODOT employees represented by SEIU Local 503 called on legislators to pass a transportation package during the special session called by Gov. Tina Kotek. Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB Oregon’s transportation-focused special session broke down before it could get moving on Friday. As planned, lawmakers descended …
Read More »Oregon could become the second U.S. state to require electric vehicle owners to enroll in a pay-per-mile program as lawmakers began a special session Friday to fill a $300 million transportation budget hole that threatens basic services like snowplowing and road repairs. Legislators failed earlier this year to approve a transportation funding package. Hundreds of state workers’ jobs are in …
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In a Tuesday letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, Gov. Tina Kotek defended Oregon’s sanctuary laws and said Bondi’s assertions that the state hampers enforcement of federal immigration laws are unfounded. The letter came after Bondi last week threatened to take legal action against Oregon and dozens of other sanctuary states and cities if they did not commit to …
Read More »PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities in Oregon are trying to extinguish a fire that is burning in one of the world’s tallest trees near the state’s southern coast. The Doerner Fir, a coastal Douglas Fir tree over 325 feet (99 meters) tall and estimated to be over 450 years old, has been burning since Saturday in Coos County in Oregon’s …
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EUGENE — While most other top programs in the country that are replacing quarterbacks have formally declared their new starters, Oregon is continuing to guard its decision. It’s not an unusual strategic maneuver for Dan Lanning, who never announced Bo Nix was the starter in 2022. Nix went on to be a Heisman Trophy finalist, NCAA single-season completion percentage record …
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Oregon firefighters are working to save one of the tallest non-redwood trees in the world after it caught fire last week. The coastal Douglas fir, believed to be about 450 years old and which stands 325 ft tall, was still burning east of Coquille on Tuesday, according to Megan Harper, public affairs specialist at the Bureau of Land Management. The …
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Below the arid surface of southern Oregon’s Alvord Desert are the echoes of a once massive Ice Age Lake, along with the scars of an ancient catastrophic flood that helped to reshape the landscape in ways that can still be seen today. Evidence of the upheaval that once impacted this region close to 13,000 years ago were recently revealed in …
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Adam RittenbergJul 23, 2025, 12:44 PM ET Close College football reporter; joined ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. LAS VEGAS — Oregon coach Dan Lanning is advocating for college football to adopt an NFL-style schedule with limited open weeks, no long layoffs for playoff teams and a season that wraps on Jan. 1 rather than later in the month. …
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