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PCC Celebrates School Board Recognition Month

PCC Celebrates School Board Recognition Month
Jan 25, 2023, 1:32 p.m.
Black Business Association of Oregon Hire First Communications ...

Black Business Association of Oregon Hire First Communications Director
Jan 25, 2023, 1:25 p.m.
Trail Blazers Mourn the Passing of Founding Broadcaster

Trail Blazers Mourn the Passing of Founding Broadcaster
Jan 25, 2023, 1:18 p.m.
New Assistant Chief Appointed

New Assistant Chief Appointed
Jan 25, 2023, 1:07 p.m.
Black Female Journalist and Civil Rights Advocate Honored

Black Female Journalist and Civil Rights Advocate Honored
Jan 11, 2023, 11:03 a.m.

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From left, Laurie Cremona Wagner, Dan Saltzman, Kristi Wilson, Mohamed Alyajouri, Dr. Adrien Bennings, Serin Bussell, Lauren Riddle, Tiffani Penson and Michael Sonnleitner.

PCC Celebrates School Board Recognition Month

January 25, 2023 | 1:32 p.m.

Sommer Martin

Black Business Association of Oregon Hire First ...

January 25, 2023 | 1:25 p.m.

Bill Schonely, the longtime Portland Trail Blazers broadcaster who coined the phrase “Rip City” died on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023. He was 93. (AP Photo/Steve Dykes)

Trail Blazers Mourn the Passing of Founding ...

January 25, 2023 | 1:18 p.m.

AC Art Nakamura shaking hands with Chief Lovell

New Assistant Chief Appointed

January 25, 2023 | 1:07 p.m.

Arts & Entertainment

Marilyn Keller

Portland singer profoundly affected by Dr. King’s ...

January 11, 2023 | 11:29 a.m.

Takeoff, from left, Quavo and Offset, of Migos, appear at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards in Los Angeles on March 23, 2019. A representative confirms that rapper Takeoff is dead after a shooting outside of a Houston bowling alley. Takeoff, whose real name was Kirsnick Khari Ball, was 28. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/AP)

Migos Rapper Take Off Shot Dead at ...

November 2, 2022 | 9:37 a.m.

The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity

October 19, 2022 | 3:42 a.m.

Chicken & Biscuits actresses Brittany N. Caldwell & Treasure Lunaan

Portland Playhouse: Chicken & Biscuits

October 6, 2022 | 12:21 p.m.

Metro

Sommer Martin

Black Business Association of Oregon Hire First ...

January 25, 2023 | 1:25 p.m.

Rev. Dr. Mark Knudson, Pastor of the Augustana Lutheran Church

A Lifelong Believer in Teachings of Dr. ...

January 11, 2023 | 11:43 a.m.

Ken Berry speaks during the Martin Luther King Celebration

After 2-year hiatus, King tribute goes live ...

January 11, 2023 | 11:35 a.m.

Aprille Flint-Gerner Interim Child Welfare Director and Rebecca Jones Gaston Commissioner of the Administration of Children, Youth, and Families.

Oregon Child Welfare Director National Appointment Confirmed

January 11, 2023 | 11:12 a.m.

Law & Justice

AC Art Nakamura shaking hands with Chief Lovell

New Assistant Chief Appointed

January 25, 2023 | 1:07 p.m.

Nicole Morrisey O’Donnell is sworn in during a ceremony held at the Multnomah Building in Southeast Portland, Jan. 4, 2023. Sheriff Morrisey O’Donnell is the first woman to serve as sheriff in the agency’s nearly 170 years of operation. Courtesy of Multnomah County Sheriff's Office

New Sheriff of Multnomah County makes history!

January 11, 2023 | 10:55 a.m.

Man Sentenced

Portland Man Sentenced for Stealing Covid Relief ...

December 21, 2022 | 12:05 p.m.

RETRANSMISSION TO CORRECT TO GREAT-AUNT'S HOME - In these photos provided by the Fouther Family Archives and Ariel Kane are Elizabeth Fouther-Branch and Bobby Fouther as children standing in front of their great-aunt’s home and in 2021 standing in the front of the parking lot where the house used to stand in Portland, Ore. The siblings are now among 26 Black people who either lived in the neighborhood or who are descendants of former residents who are suing Portland, the city's economic and urban development agency and Legacy Emanuel Hospital for the "racist" destruction of the homes and forced displacement. (Della Williams/Fouther Family Archives and Ariel Kane via AP)

Oregon Lawsuit Spotlights Destruction of Black Neighborhoods

December 21, 2022 | 11:47 a.m.

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