Coos County Commissioners vote against a proclamation that would express their county's cooperation with ICE, citing Oregon's sanctuary laws, which ban local goverments and law enforcement from assisting federal immigration enforcement.[17]
April 11 – Governor Kotek replaces the head of the Oregon State Hospital after receiving additional information about the death of a patient in March.[23]
May 22 – Travel Oregon CEO Todd Davidson announces his retirement amid mounting controversy around compensation and workplace culture at the agency.[30]
May 29 – A dead sperm whale washes up between Del Ray and Sunset Beach, north of Seaside. The necropsy finds that it was killed by a watercraft.[31]
June 9 – Governor Kotek expands the plastic bag ban to affect all bags of any thickness, closing a loophole in the 2020 ban. The law is set to come into effect in 2027.[36]
June 12 – A group of young Indigenous kayakers begin their descent along the entire course of the Klamath River, starting from the headwaters in Chiloquin, Oregon. It is the first "source-to-sea" descent in over 100 years, and is possible because of the removal of several dams along the Klamath in the few years before the event.[39]
Immigration officials arrest a parent in the parking lot of a preschool in Beaverton. This is the first publicly known immigration enforcement arrest at a school in Oregon.[50]
July 16 – Governor Kotek declares a statewide wildfire emergency, effective immediately and lasting until the end of the year.[51]
July 19 – Six people are swept over Dillon Falls near Bend. Three are rescued, two are killed, and one is missing.[52]
Governor Kotek signs five bills into law in an effort to address a behavioral health crisis in the state.[60]
August 7
ICE arrests Guatemalan field workers in Woodburn. This is the first publicly known ICE arrest of field workers in Oregon since the start of Trump's second term.[61]
Governor Kotek signs several bills, including one which allocates $45 million to the Willamette Falls Trust to allow the coalition of tribal governments, with leadership from former Governor Kate Brown, to build a visitor facility and programs at the Willamette Falls.[62]
Avelo Airlines ceases operations at the McNary Field airport in Salem, as it pulls out of all West Coast operations. This leaves the Salem airport without any airline carriers.[64]
August 13 – The Oregon Employment Department announces that the state's unemployment rate has reached 5%, the highest since July 2021.[66]
August 14 – OHSU receives a $2 billion donation for cancer care and research; it is the largest single donation ever made to a U.S. university or academic health center.[67]
A team extinguishes a fire inside the trunk of the Doerner Fir tree in Southern Oregon. The tree survives, but loses some of its height and its status as the world's tallest Douglas fir.[71]
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