Anne McEnerny-Ogle won a third term as mayor of Vancouver on Tuesday night, beating her opponent Justin Forsman by a wide margin. Voters in Vancouver also appeared to be approving Proposition 5, based on early results.

A lot has been said about Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez's wins in Southwest Washington. Some are now trying to copy that success to flip the U.S. House in 2026

Crosscut is dead. Long live Crosscut. Today’s the official last day for me and my Cascade PBS newsroom colleagues. We did good work over the decades and it is supremely sad to see it shut down.

“We’ll talk later about whether that’s contempt,” the judge responded"

On top of cuts to SNAP and Medicaid, some families are now contending with closures of low-income child care www.opb.org/article/2025...

Remember to vote! There are some important and contested races in Southwest Washington. Here are a few that stand out

A controversial billboard on I-5 between Seattle and Portland has a new owner, the Chehalis Tribe, and a simple message: “Native land.”

Hard to explain the significance of salmon being recorded in Upper Klamath Lake, beyond all the river’s dams. Another example of the success of the largest dam removal in U.S. history

An ethics complaint was filed against a Vancouver city councilor. The allegations have mostly been dismissed but it was filed curiously close to her re-election bid on Nov. 4.

The small protests at Portland's ICE building are filled with a whole variety of social media influencers and online streamers. As one researcher described it to me: "they start out with an ideological vision of the world and then narrate what they see in a way that fits that vision."

Loved this snapshot of life in rural California from @romanbattaglia.com. A much-needed break from the news

Lots of federal workers are going without pay right now. Washington and Oregon want you to know stopgap benefits are available

President Donald Trump is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon after a judge blocked the administration from deploying that state’s guard to Portland, according to California Gov. Gavin Newsom. apnews.com/article/nati...

“This country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach,” Immergut wrote in her opinion, “especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs.” Immergut was appointed by President Trump in 2019.

Apropos of nothing -- Portland police arrested and shot munitions at dozens of journalists in 2020. I don't remember a DOJ investigation then.

$400 million in climate grants cut "The projects are in the following states: CA, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, MD, MA, MN, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OR, VT, WA" -Russell Vought

Lots of federal workers are going without pay right now. Washington and Oregon want you to know stopgap benefits are available

With Vancouver pushing another levy to fund police officers next month, here's a look at why there's such a law enforcement shortage in the Southwest Washington city

The 60-day deployment of the National Guard to Portland ordered by President Trump on Sunday is expected to cost federal taxpayers at least $3.8 million.

The Oregon National Guard said it has begun the process of mobilizing guard members with law enforcement experience to comply with President Donald Trump’s deployment order for 200 troops in Portland, but it could be next week before there are actual boots on the ground.

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just got back from war ravaged portland. went to a dog park, bought a cook book for a birthday present. barely made it out alive.

Dozens of candidates in Clark County are running for an obscure commission to oversee the local constitution. As one told me, “I think it will test the boundary and put some definition to just exactly what is fair game for charter amendments."

What a loss for Northwest journalism. I did my first internship here when it was Crosscut

SW WA Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez splits with Democrats on government funding bill “I could not in good conscience vote to shut our government down" www.opb.org/article/2025...

The deal marks the end of a strike that pushed the start of the school year back three weeks for the district’s nearly 22,000 students. A ratification vote is expected today.

Last night, small cities in Clark County successfully lobbied to hold onto their voting power on the C-TRAN board. But it could put millions at stake in transit funding www.opb.org/article/2025...

OPB's legal team wins again! After months of opposing the release of a third-party investigation into sexual abuse at St. Helens High School, that report is now public thanks to OPB.

Questions about who can be on Clark County's C-TRAN board seem to have mostly been answered in a terse letter from Washington state yesterday: “WSDOT does not believe the proposed 3-3-3 Board composition complies with the law” www.opb.org/article/2025...

Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

"Hogan said he talked with representatives from the county’s other small cities Aug. 11, and they indicated their concern that the city of Vancouver is going to “stack the deck with proportionality on votes.”" 🧐

A Rotary Club in rural Oregon is not high on the list of places I would expect a Republican politician to get booed.

Congress failing to reauthorize Secure Rural Schools funding was the last straw for the Wind River Middle School in Carson, Washington, which will be closed this fall.

It’s true. If I had learned this… I dunno, 35 years ago?… I’d have had a very different writing career.

Fort Vancouver is hosting its bicentennial tomorrow. It's happening after the fort lost a third of its staff to federal layoffs and amid government directives that say none of their history books should disparage Americans, living or dead.

Vancouver's housing construction is at a historic low. One solution: remove parking. “If nothing new gets built over the next couple years, we’re going to be headed into another major rent spike”

The Burdoin Mountain Fire, which is burning on the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge, also forced officials with the Washington State Department of Transportation to close State Road 14 in both directions between milepost 66 and 74.

Homelessness continues to grow in Clark County. Numbers from the annual Point-In-Time count were released yesterday. Especially concerning: numbers of homeless seniors went up 21%

Proud to be part of the OPB team today and the greater public radio family. In the words of my boss: "In this challenging moment, OPB will not back down."

By a partisan 216-213 vote, the House approved President Trump's request to pull back $8B in foreign aid and all $1.1B set aside for NPR, PBS and their stations for the next 2 yrs. Congress has now unraveled its role in public media stretching back more than a half-century. 1/2

In response to the extreme heat, local governments and organizations across Oregon and Southwest Washington have developed ways to keep people safe — including opening 24-hour emergency cooling shelters.

Update: Court records say the former city council president is charged with conspiracy to impede law enforcement and two counts of assault on an officer. At the time, he was trying to prevent a bus carrying two legal immigrants from leaving to a detention center in Tacoma.

I've been to KFSK in Petersburg. It's an important part of the community that does a lot with a little. Now is a good time to tell your members of Congress not to cut funding for public media

Southwest Washington voters will decide whether to boost funding or cut services at the Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries during an Aug. 5 special election. The library property tax levy will be on the ballot in Clark, Cowlitz, Skamania and Klickitat counties.

@opb.org reporters have already amassed an impressive list of ways the federal cuts and the Big Beautiful Bill will affect the Northwest. 👇🏻

Small hospitals that are already in bad shape financially will be pushed closer to the edge by the federal reconciliation bill. About two dozen got "distressed hospital grants" from the state this year, even before the medicaid cuts were approved www.opb.org/article/2025...

Oregon's wildfire risk map recently went down in flames. I asked the lawmaker behind it what Washington state can learn as it creates its own map.

What does the Republican budget bill mean for Oregon? A team of OPB journalists are breaking it down for you.

Former Oregon Gov. Kitzhaber's letter to Rep. Bentz:

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