2025 in Oregon

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The year 2025 in Oregon involved several major events.

• Governor: Tina Kotek (D)
• Secretary of State: LaVonne Griffin-Valade (D)

• January – 2025 Oregon Nurses Association strike^[1]
• January 1
  • Portland's Crush Bar closes.^[2]
  • The Quaintrelle restaurant closes.^[3]
• January 7 – Portland's Anna Bannanas Cafe closes.^[4]
• January 8 – The Oregon State Fire Marshal sends 240 firefighters and 60 fire engines to help combat wildfires in Southern California.^[5]
• January 13–27 – Cram Fire^[6]
• January 21 – The Portland Bangers FC are established.^[7]
• January 26
  • The Mama Bird restaurant in Portland closes.^[8]
  • Masala Lab PDX closes.^[9]

• February 7
  • Coos County Commissioners vote against a proclamation that would express their county's cooperation with ICE, citing Oregon's sanctuary laws against local goverment and law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.^[10]
  • Response to the Department of Government Efficiency: Oregon joins 8 other states in a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration–and specifically Elon Musk and DOGE–from accessing citizens' private information.^[11]
• February 14 – Governor Tina Kotek places the head of the Oregon Youth Authority on leave amid complaints about the treatment of youths in the system.^[12]

• March 5 – Festival Lanterns is demolished.^[13]
• March 10 – The United States Senate approves former Oregon representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer as the new United States Secretary of Labor.^[14]
• March 18 – A patient at the Oregon State Hospital dies in a secure room. The hospital mishandles the medical emergency.^[15]
• March 23 – Postal workers meet at Pioneer Courthouse Square to protest Trump slashing funding for USPS.^[16]

• April 9 – Portland restaurant XLB closes.^[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.^[15]
• April 23 – Oregon Senate Bill 605 passes, preventing medical debt from impacting patients' credit scores.^[18]

• May 8 – LGBTQ bar Misfits Bar and Lounge closes.^[19]
• May 9 – Former Secretary of State Shemia Fagan is fined and apologizes after the Oregon Government Ethics Commission finds she improperly used her position as auditor to secure a consulting gig.^[20]
• May 22 – Travel Oregon CEO Todd Davidson announces his retirement amid mounting controversy around compensation and workplace culture at the agency.^[21]
• 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.^[22]
• May 31
  • Portland coffee shop Oui Presse officially closes; the business is sold to a new owner and renamed.^[23]
  • Malheur Enterprise publishes their last online edition, marking the newspaper's closure.^[24]

• June 6 – Portland Aquarium, an art installation by Mike Bennett, opens in Portland.^[25]
• June 9 – Governor Kotek expands the plastic bag ban to affect all bags of any thickness, closing a loophole in the 2020 plastic bag ban. The law is set to come into effect in 2027.^[26]
• June 11–23 – Rowena Fire^[27]
• June 11 – The AEW Summer Blockbuster streams live from the Moda Center Theater of the Clouds in Portland.^[28]
• 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.^[29]
• June 14 – People attend No Kings protests at various cities in Oregon.^[30]
• June 20 – Oregon House Bill 3954 passes; the bill protects the Oregon National Guard from being used as law enforcement or deployed without the consent of the state's governor, and was put forward in reaction to Trump's deployment of the California National Guard during the June 2025 Los Angeles protests.^[31]
• June 24 – Measles resurgence in the United States: Amid the measles outbreak in the Southwest, the Oregon Health Authority announces the state's first confirmed measles case for 2025.^[32]
• June 30 – Portland's Rams Head Pub closes.^[33]

• July 5 – The 2025 Prefontaine Classic airs live from Eugene, Oregon.^[34]
• July 7 – The Oregon Department of Transportation issues layoff notifications to over 480 employees, the first of two rounds of planned layoffs.^[35]
• July 8 – Portland restaurant Beastro closes.^[36]
• July 9 – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) uses medical records from OHSU as examples in a presentation which argues that gender-affirming care is a kind of “fraud” that should be civilly prosecuted.^[37]
• July 15
  • The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) announces the expansion team in Portland will be called the Portland Fire, bringing back the name of a WNBA team from the early 2000s.^[38]
  • 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.^[39]
• July 16 – Governor Kotek declares a statewide wildfire emergency, effective immediately and lasting until the end of the year.^[40]
• July 19 – Six people are swept over Dillon Falls near Bend. Three are rescued, two are killed, and one is missing.^[41]
• July 25 – The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights accuses the Oregon Department of Education of violating Title IX protections by allowing transgender girls to compete with cisgender girls in school sporting competitions.^[42]
• July 27 – Portland art installation Fathom closes.^[43]
• July 30 – Fair Weather, a brunch restaurant, closes in Portland.^[44]
• July 31–August 3 – The 2025 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships are held at Hayward Field in Eugene.^[45]

• 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.^[46]
• August 9 – Portland's Slow Bar closes.^[47]
• August 10 – 2025 BitNile.com Grand Prix of Portland^[48]
• 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.^[49]

• 2025 Oregon Ducks baseball team
• 2025 Oregon Ducks football team
• 2025 Oregon wildfires
• 83rd Oregon Legislative Assembly

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