Ted Sickinger

1 week ago | oregonlive.com | Ted Sickinger

Hanging in every other ground-floor window is a polite reminder to passersby. “Please do not vandalize,” the signs read at Gray’s Landing, a low-income apartment building in Portland’s South Waterfront. Home to many elderly residents, veterans and families with young children, Gray’s Landing is neighbor to the latest target of Portland protesters’ unpredictable ire: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “We are not associated with the ICE building,” the signs plead.

2 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Ted Sickinger

Firefighters continued to make progress Saturday night on containing and mopping up the Rowena fire in the Columbia River Gorge, according to the Oregon State Fire Marshal. As of Sunday morning, the fire had burned 56 homes and 91 other structures, including sheds, barns and shops, according to the Wasco County Sheriff’s office. No lives have been lost. The fire has a 3,636 acre footprint between Mosier and The Dalles and is 10% contained.

2 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Ted Sickinger

Oregon forestry officials say they’re entering this summer’s wildfire fire season fully staffed and as prepared as they can be to meet the growing challenge of protecting millions of acres of public and private land. They also are taking at face value assurances from federal officials that their own cadre of firefighters is fully staffed, adequately supplied, and will be ready to help when fire season kicks into high gear.

1 month ago | oregonlive.com | Ted Sickinger

Proposed cuts to the country’s largest food aid program could slash benefits currently going to one in six Oregonians or shift more than $1 billion in program costs to the state in each two-year budget cycle. Republicans’ One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act includes about $300 billion in cuts over 10 years to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.

1 month ago | chronline.com | Ted Sickinger

Oregon regulators have suspended the operating license of a trucking academy in Hillsboro following revelations that Skyline CDL School was linked to alleged involvement in a bribery scheme to obtain commercial driver’s licenses for its unqualified students in Washington. That alleged fraud was detailed in a story published two weeks ago by The Oregonian/OregonLive.