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Good morning, Northwest.
This weekend brings several important developments.
Tomorrow, U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut is expected to issue a ruling as her temporary restraining order blocking the deployment of National Guard troops expires.
Meanwhile, Portland’s public camping ban goes into effect today, with police preparing to issue citations and conduct warrant checks for people camping or living in vehicles on public property.
Today also marks the start of the Affordable Care Act open enrollment for people buying health insurance through the marketplace. Many may have to choose a plan without clarity on its final cost, since subsidies for ACA plans are currently set to expire at the end of the year.
And early tomorrow morning, daylight saving time ends — clocks will fall back one hour from 2 a.m. to 1 a.m.
Here’s your First Look at Saturday’s news.
— Winston Szeto
Volunteers, many of whom use the food bank, hand out food to clients at the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon’s Northeast Emergency Food Program in Portland, Ore., on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025.
Eli Imadali / OPB
Oregon, Washington SNAP recipients could still face delays as judge orders feds to fund program
Yesterday, two federal judges ordered the Trump administration to use emergency reserve money to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program as the government shutdown continues.
But Oregon and Washington SNAP recipients expecting to get benefits the first week of November could still see a delay.
The judges directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture to use contingency funding appropriated by Congress to fund the food stamp program, which helps more than 757,000 Oregonians and more than 905,000 Washington residents buy groceries.
However, they also said the federal government could decide how much money it would use to buoy the program in November.
The rulings to continue payments came one day before federal funding for the SNAP program was set to run out. (Bryce Dole)
Related: A worker on the front lines of helping Oregonians losing SNAP benefits (Lillian Karabaic)
‘OPB Politics Now’: Food assistance and health insurance stuck in government shutdown limbo
On this week’s “OPB Politics Now” we will take a deeper look at what will happen to some of the most vulnerable as the government shutdown continues. (Alejandro Figueroa, Lauren Dake, Amelia Templeton and Andrew Theen)
Reyna Lopez, President and Executive Director of PCUN, speaks at a press conference alongside Metro Councilor Juan Carlos González, center left, and President of the OregonAFL-CIO Graham Trainer, center right, in Portland, Ore., on Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. Union and Civil leaders gathered to denounce a surge in recent ICE arrests in the Willamette Valley farming community and residential areas, where hundreds of immigrants have been arrested in the last month.
Saskia Hatvany / OPB
Things to know this morning
- At the close of the federal trial yesterday over whether President Donald Trump can lawfully send National Guard troops to Portland, U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut said that she aimed to issue a ruling tomorrow, the day that her temporary restraining order blocking the deployment of troops expires. (Conrad Wilson and Troy Brynelson)
- Portland’s public camping ban is going into effect as soon as today. According to Mayor Keith Wilson, Portland police will begin issuing citations and running warrant checks on people camping or living in vehicles on public property. (Alex Zielinski)
- Union and civic leaders from Washington County spoke out at a press conference yesterday afternoon against recent mass arrests by the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (Kristian Foden-Vencil and Holly Bartholomew)
The iconic marquee and neon sign glow as dusk falls at the century old Cinema 21 in Portland, Ore., Oct. 22, 2025.
Eli Imadali / OPB
Headlines from around the Northwest
- These Oregon theaters have been entertaining moviegoers for 100 years (Steven Tonthat)
- How is Oregon’s school cellphone ban going? A check-in on the statewide change (Natalie Pate)
- Author and screenwriter Jon Raymond writes grounded, rich stories of everyday life (Jacob Pander)
- Former Clackamas County commissioner charged in theft, forgery case may have fled the country (OPB staff)
- Grant hits free throws with 1.4 seconds left and Blazers beat Nuggets 109-107 (Anne M. Peterson)
Irish barmbrack baked for Halloween often includes a hidden trinket for predicting one's fate
Heather Arndt Anderson / OPB
🍞 Superabundant recipe: This Irish Halloween bread is more than cinnamon-raisin bread
Symbolic sweet breads are often associated with Christian observances like Epiphany.
But the Irish barmbrack baked for Halloween includes the same sweet, enriched dough — and the same hidden trinket as a pagan fortune-telling device.
Spooky! (Heather Arndt Anderson)
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