A new report by the city’s housing bureau finds that in 2022, Portlanders identifying as Black, Native American, and Latino and making the average income for their demographic would have been unable to afford the cost of a house anywhere within city limits.
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The West Linn-Wilsonville School District is updating its reading curriculum at the same time lawmakers are looking to enact new state literacy guidance.
The Environmental Protection Agency's Region 10 administrator warned Oregon government agencies that federal authorities will take action if the state doesn’t address nitrate contamination cleanup in Eastern Oregon.
County chair Tootie Smith changed her vote Wednesday, effectively blocking the project she helped approve in February.
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Two deputies fatally shot an armed man during a disturbance in east Linn County on Tuesday.
Federal researchers have found that a widely used pesticide significantly harms endangered Northwest salmon and steelhead species.
Mayor Ted Wheeler is floating a proposal to use previously homeless Portlanders to convince people living outside to move into shelter — and decide which people should be penalized for refusing to do so.
House Bill 3391 died in the House Judiciary Committee after failing to get scheduled for a work session by Friday’s deadline.
Detectives in Vancouver say they believe they have found the bodies of a mother and daughter who went missing earlier this month.
In other news, Wapato Lake refuge opens at long last, Ashland youth look to electrify new homes and how a grassroots effort stopped logging in Clark County.
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point in an effort to curb high inflation. Some had called for the Fed to wait after two recent bank failures.
Uganda's parliament has passed sweeping new anti-LGBTQ+ laws with tougher punishments, making some acts punishable by death.
As the Federal Reserve considers whether to raise interest rates again, credit card debt is already at a record high, and more people are carrying debt month to month.
Defense lawyers say a former truck driver about to face trial for shooting to death congregants in a Pittsburgh synagogue more than four years ago has schizophrenia and structural and functional brain impairments.
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan began at sundown on Wednesday, as the faithful prepared for a month of dawn-to-dusk fasting intended to bring them closer to God and to remind them of the suffering of those less fortunate.
Between Holi (Hindu Festival of Colors), Nowruz (Persian New Year), Shunbun no Hi (Japanese Vernal Equinox Day) and Ostara/Easter, there are so many ways humans have traditionally celebrated the return of spring. The vernal equinox represents a triumph of life over the dark, cold death of winter; of fertility and rebirth. In this week’s newsletter, we reflect on the ways in which the equinox is observed with the season’s symbolic foods.
Northwest scientists are going to great distances – and great depths – hoping to help us understand our volcanic risk closer to home.
When you think about who works in a school, you think of teachers, principals, custodians, counselors — but there are also paraeducators. Paras are deployed to help students with disabilities make the most of their education.