Thousands of residents across parts of California, Nevada, Oregon, and South Dakota have been advised to stay indoors, as levels of fine particle pollution (PM2.5) will have reached “unhealthy” levels as of January 12, 2026, at 6 a.m. ET, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) AirNow Map shows.

Unlike most states, Oregon does not remove all voters who fail to vote in two consecutive presidential general elections from its voter rolls. Instead, it designates most of them as “inactive voters.” That designation has largely the same effect as removing them from the voter list, however: Elections officials no longer send those people ballots.

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Oregon saw a major boost in people moving into the state in 2025, according to U-Haul's 2025 migration report.

Across these places, the influx of former-Oregon residents in 2022 ranged from about 40 to over 36,000. The places bringing in the most people from Oregon include some of the most populous states in the country, as well as several states that share a border with Oregon. These are the states people from Oregon are moving to the most.

More than 1,000 people gathered at the Oregon State Capitol June 14 as part of nationwide "No Kings" protests countering President Donald Trump's 79th birthday and a military parade celebrating the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary in Washington, D.C. About ...

(STACKER) — Fewer Americans moved in 2022, according to the latest Census data, but of those who did, one in five moved to a different state. Population growth has returned to pre-pandemic norms; Southern states continued to record influxes in population ...

Hundreds of protests were scheduled in Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Florida and other states, according to Indivisible, an organization formed to resist the Trump administration. Many were dubbed “ICE Out for Good.