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BINGEN — The Bingen City Council’s regular meeting on June 16 opened with a presentation on the new Oregon/Washington bridge.
Free news from Uplift Local: Twelve years after Union Pacific (UP) proposed adding a second track through Mosier, the company has started building a much smaller rail infrastructure project there.
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(The Center Square) – The state of Ohio is downgrading the commercial driver’s license of 1,200 foreign-born truck drivers for failing to meet new federal requirements on documenting proof that they are in the United States legally.
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Oregonians driving electric vehicles will be required to pay hundreds of dollars in new taxes and fees starting next year, sending tens of millions of dollars annually to the State Highway Fund. The fund is today mostly seeded with money from the state’s 40-cent-per-gallon gas tax and pays for Oregon roads and infrastructure. That revenue […]
Free news briefs: Washington State Patrol is launching the annual “Surviving Summer” traffic safety campaign June 11-13; the City of The Dalles has partnered with DocuPet to offer residents a modern licensing system; and Wasco County has been added to the federal major disaster declaration for the Dec. 15–21, 2025.
The Bingen City Council kicked off its regular meeting on June 2 with exciting news: an e-bike lending library is coming to town.
Urban Renewal Agency (URA) Administrator Will Norris said they have been working with ODOT to take over this section of the Heights for a year and a half.
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In their first meeting since Oregon voters rejected a gas and payroll tax increase to pay for roads and transit services, Gov. Tina Kotek’s transportation workgroup seemed less focused on finding new funding mechanisms for the state’s beleaguered transportation agency than the agency’s perceived marketing failures. The 12 member workgroup first met in May and […]
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Free news: Statewide fire restrictions remain in effect for all Bureau of Land Management public lands throughout Oregon and Washington, and many local regions have additional restrictions in place.
