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OPB’s First Look: Who just bought the Blazers?

The Portland Trail Blazers have new owners. Tom Dundon, who owns professional hockey’s Carolina Hurricanes, will lead the ownership group purchasing Portland’s NBA franchise for about $4 billion, ...
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OPB’s First Look: Saving Breitenbush

The hot springs at Breitenbush northeast of Detroit, Oregon, have been known and loved for generations. The resort there was mostly built in the 1920s. About a century later, the historic Labor Day ...
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OPB’s First Look: Northwest reacts to Charlie Kirk’s killing

Political activist Charlie Kirk, a close ally of President Trump and ardent gun rights supporter, died yesterday after he was shot in the neck at a rally in Utah. The governors of Oregon and ...
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Rebuilding home — and a life — 5 years after fires changed everything

When Rachelle McMaster lived at the Salmon River Mobile Village in Otis, a town outside Lincoln City, the traffic from a nearby highway wasn’t quite as loud. “There were more trees,” McMaster recalled ...
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Bend commission calls for emergency meeting over Juneteenth funding

Kathryn Styer Martínez / OPB Bend’s Human Rights and Equity Commission chair said Wednesday that she wants the city to hold an emergency meeting to address how the city handled a claim of ...
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OPB’s First Look: Keeping the Flat Fire in check

The Flat Fire erupted in Central Oregon in late August, quickly chewing through thousands of acres of land near Sisters. The fire destroyed five homes, but it could have been a lot more. As the blaze ...