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Humboldt County Supervisors approved a budget Tuesday with a $12 million deficit. But that's an improvement from last year.

House Bill 5011 funnels large sums of money toward homeless shelters while reducing eviction prevention funds by more than $100 million.

House Speaker Julie Fahey spent the weekend negotiating with skeptical members of her party.

“The budget that’s being proposed and likely to be adopted will effectively be a reduction in resources available to [institutions],” said Kevin Neely, interim executive director of the Oregon Council of Presidents.

A Democratic senator’s removal from a key committee Friday inspired backlash from some in the party.

Southern Oregon University’s Board of Trustees adopted a new budget on Friday. It includes a sobering $5 million budget deficit the university has to address within a year.

Senate Bill 110 authorizes $800 million in bonds to help fund the construction of a professional baseball stadium on Portland’s South Waterfront.

Desperate for money to get through the next two wildfire seasons and with few proposals on the table that could meet costs and get passed by the Oregon Legislature, Gov. Tina Kotek is proposing to skim some money off of the state’s “rainy day fund.”

Gov. Tina Kotek has signaled her support for potentially using some of the kicker or other one-time funding to invest in wildfire work across the state.

California’s main source of homelessness funding would drop from $1 billion last year to $0 this year in the proposed state budget.

A transportation funding proposal by Oregon Democrats would bring in more than $1.8 billion per year in fiscal year 2029 — and more than $2 billion annually by 2034 — according to a revenue analysis circulating in the Capitol.

The federal government could start selling off thousands of acres of Oregon public lands if provisions added to the Big Beautiful Bill win Congressional approval.