Portlanders are paying millions to resolve previous incidents of police violence at protests. Current events tee up a potential repeat. The city has paid over $9.1 million in legal fees and payouts ...

Depending on who you ask, City Councilor Dan Ryan’s office terminated or amicably separated from a part-time employee July 17 over the employee’s offensive views on social media and his podcast.

With available funding nearly gone, the future is unclear for publicly funded affordable housing projects in the Portland area ...

A ll 60 units in North Portland’s Hattie Redmond Apartments are affordable to folks making less than 30% of the area median income. Intended for people exiting homelessness, services such as clothing ...

The Clinton Street Theater is hosting a celebration of life for the Copwatch founder June 28. Those who knew him reflect on his work and impact ...

Timbers’ midfielder, Diego Chara on growing up in a soccer family in Colombia and his new family in Portland Diego Chara grew up in Cali, Colombia, where from the time he could walk he was kicking a ...

Diego Chara grew up in Cali, Colombia, where from the time he could walk he was kicking a soccer ball. He had good company nearby. His father Jesús played soccer, and he knocked the ball around with ...

Zenith Energy’s fossil fuel storage and transport facility faces criticism for potential environmental dangers, particularly in the event of an earthquake. Portland City Council and a fossil fuel ...

For many housed people, there is a tendency to conflate unhoused populations with violent crime and danger, but crime rates tell a different story. Editor's note: This story contains graphic ...

For over 60 years, Lil’ Sambo’s Family Restaurant in Lincoln City has been a self-proclaimed “coastal landmark,” named after a children’s book famous for its racist illustrations. Now, Oregonians are ...

A carceral response to public inebriates — once narrowly focused on low-income people downtown — caused people to search for a better way, fueling the creation of HADIN In the mid-1980s, the most dire ...

Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church, once one of the largest African-American congregations on the West Coast, moved into a new home in the Cully neighborhood in 2011. Its community resiliency ...