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Bank from Whidbey grows
Heritage Bank, which also does business as Whidbey Island Bank, is acquiring the Kitsap Bank company A bank that started in Coupeville has come a long way, baby. Heritage Bank, which also does business as Whidbey Island Bank, is acquiring the...

Cut Bank Chamber holding Mayoral Forum Oct. 8
Cut Bank voters in this year’s General Election on Nov. 4 will be faced with something they haven’t seen in years - more than one candidate for the mayoral race. Incumbent Kim Winchell will be challenged by Curtis Harper, Jim Suta, and Vernon...

'Based' Portland Resident Upends Oregon Democrat Narratives About Rioters in Blistering Statement
One of the rationales Oregon Democrats have been using to push back against President Trump's authorization of troop deployment to Portland is that they say he's using footage of the rioting that happened in 2020 during the George Floyd riots to...

Ole Miss moves into top 5 of AP Top 25 rankings; Oregon is new No. 2
Week 5 of the College Football season did not disappoint. In what was promised to be a day of ranked matchups and wall-to-wall action, Saturday was packed with upsets and overtime finishes. Six top 25 teams fell, including three of the top 5. As a...

Researchers turn human skin cells into eggs - but not yet usable ones (World)
Photo: The Canadian Press This undated image provided by the Mitalipov Laboratory at Oregon Health & Science University shows a a microscope image of a human egg that contains a nucleus taken from a skin cell. Oregon scientists used human skin...

Weds 9:40 | Oregon Community Foundation is one of the nation's largest with a priority lens on Oregonians
Lisa Mensah joins the Exchange. She is President and CEO of Oregon Community Foundation. Also joining is Kurt Hildebrand. He's the Philanthropic Advisor & Regional Director of Southern Oregon Philanthropic Services at OCF. ABOUT LISA MENSAH Lisa...

Portland Police union rep says officers caught in the middle of heated political debate
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Boarded-up windows, graffiti, signs, and chanting during the daytime outside the Portland ICE facility, signs of what President Donald Trump has referred to as "a war zone." At night, sometimes things are calm, other times...

Seattle-area nonprofit donates home-baked bread to food banks in 4 states
SEATTLE — On a recent Saturday near Seattle, Cheryl Ewaldsen pulled three golden loaves of wheat bread out of her kitchen oven. The fragrant, oat-topped bread was destined not for her table, but for a local food bank, to be distributed to families...

'Political stunt': Retired general slams Trump moving National Guard into U.S. cities
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Joe: Republicans always get blamed for shutdowns, especially when you have a monopoly in D.C. 12:41 Majority of Americans oppose economic, military support to...

Weds 9AM | Oregon AG responds to Trump sending troops to Portland
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield joins the Exchange to discuss the latest decision by the Trump administration to send National Guard troops to Portland under federal authority. Governor Tina Kotek engaged in an email exchange with President...

Weds 9:25 | Oregon lawmakers save nearly 500 ODOT jobs during special session
Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) reporter, Dirk Vanderhart, joins the Exchange to discuss his reporting on outcomes of the special session of the Oregon legislature in September. One big impact of lawmaker decisions was the funding of Oregon...

Push to create functional human eggs in the lab stumbles, pioneering fertility researcher reports
For the past four years, scientists at Oregon Health & Science University have been trying to write a new recipe for human reproduction. In 2022, the team led by boundary-breaking embryologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov reported the birth of three...

Former Oregon, Yamhill County quartermaster sentenced to 2 years for embezzling $1.7M
Former Oregon, Yamhill County quartermaster sentenced to 2 years for embezzling $1.7M Published 3:10 pm Tuesday, September 30, 2025 Former quartermaster for the state and Yamhill County veterans organizations pleads guilty The Dayton woman under...

‘Jesus wants everybody,’ says newly ordained Oregon bishop
The newly ordained bishop of Baker, Oregon, said he plans to minister as he did while still a priest — and that he’s looking to transcend political and cultural divisions while proclaiming the eternal truth of the Gospel, since “Jesus wants...

Oregon's chances of winning Big Ten, CFP in 2025? Latest betting odds
Fresh off one of the best college football games of the year, No. 2 Oregon football is on the rise in the national discussion among the best teams in the country. The Ducks went into one of the best environments in the sport and defeated Penn...

AP News: Researchers turn human skin cells into eggs — but not yet usable ones
WASHINGTON (AP) — Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs, a step in the quest to develop lab-grown eggs or sperm to one day help people conceive. But the experiment resulted in abnormalities in the chromosomes,...

Why Political Conservatism is Good for Evangelism
Pastor Josh Howerton of Lakepointe Church, a multi-state congregation in Dallas, has a reputation for helping believers put their faith into action. He’s also not afraid to share politically incorrect or even unpopular facts regarding concerning...

Federal government starts probe into Oregon LGBTQ+ foster policy
The Trump administration on Tuesday opened an investigation into a contested Oregon policy of requiring prospective adoptive and foster parents to affirm their child’s gender identity, spelling uncertainty for hundreds of millions of dollars in...

Roundhouse Foundation Allocates $6 Million to Rural Oregon Food Banks
(Photo courtesy of Roundhouse Foundation) With costs of living continuing to rise, the number of people experiencing food insecurity is higher than ever, now affecting 47.4 million Americans a year. In Oregon, those living in rural and remote...
Researchers turn human skin cells into eggs — but not yet usable ones
WASHINGTON (AP) — Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs, a step in the quest to develop lab-grown eggs or sperm to one day help people conceive. But the experiment resulted in abnormalities in the chromosomes,...