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Sessions Visit Met With Resistance

Sessions Visit Met With Resistance
Sep 19, 2017, 5:02 p.m.
County Faces Claims of Racism

County Faces Claims of Racism
Sep 19, 2017, 4:58 p.m.
Respect and Success:

Respect and Success:
Sep 20, 2017, 10:07 a.m.
Confronting a Shared Heritage

Confronting a Shared Heritage
Sep 20, 2017, 10:02 a.m.
Smith to Battle for City Council Seat

Smith to Battle for City Council Seat
Sep 19, 2017, 5:05 p.m.

Latest News

Roosevelt High School students Lammi Kalil (from left), Justice English and Isobel Boyd join Portland Trail Blazers point guard Damian Lillard (center) at a school assembly Thursday to kick off a motivational ‘RESPECT’ program that focuses on encouraging students to adopt core values through respectful behavior.

Respect and Success:

September 20, 2017 | 10:07 a.m.

Joseph Gibson stars in “An Octoroon,” a shocking comedy that focuses on the expectations that black artists face.

Confronting a Shared Heritage

September 20, 2017 | 10:02 a.m.

Oregon retailers provide video lottery terminals inside their establishments. Officials attending a convention of North American lottery representatives in Portland said there’s a need to stay relevant to changing technologies and the new demographics of players to keep up with changing times.

Keeping Up with the Game

September 20, 2017 | 9:52 a.m.

Participants warm up for the MLK Dream Run. The sixth annual event honing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his “I Have a Dream” speech returns on Sunday, Sept. 24.

Dream Run on Starting Blocks

September 19, 2017 | 5:17 p.m.

Arts & Entertainment

Joseph Gibson stars in “An Octoroon,” a shocking comedy that focuses on the expectations that black artists face.

Confronting a Shared Heritage

September 20, 2017 | 10:02 a.m.

Oregon retailers provide video lottery terminals inside their establishments. Officials attending a convention of North American lottery representatives in Portland said there’s a need to stay relevant to changing technologies and the new demographics of players to keep up with changing times.

Keeping Up with the Game

September 20, 2017 | 9:52 a.m.

Norman ‘Boogie Cat’ Sylvester and his daughter Lenanne Miller will once again front the Uptown Dance Party celebrating Sylvester’s and the late B.B. King’s shared birthday, Saturday, Sept. 16 at the Adrianna Hill Grand Ballroom, downtown.

Boogie Cat’s Dance Party Set

September 12, 2017 | 4:58 p.m.

Kevin Kenerly (left) and Steven Sapp are a boxer and poet with a shared past in “UniSon,” derived from the great African American Playwright August Wilson; And placed in an Indian school (right photo) where his culture is erased, a 19th Century Native American (Shaun Taylor-Corbett) is visited by the spirit of his Native American grandfather (Brent Florendo) in ‘Off the Rails.’ Both shows are now playing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland.

An Awakening of What You’ve Been Missing

September 12, 2017 | 4:36 p.m.

Metro

Roosevelt High School students Lammi Kalil (from left), Justice English and Isobel Boyd join Portland Trail Blazers point guard Damian Lillard (center) at a school assembly Thursday to kick off a motivational ‘RESPECT’ program that focuses on encouraging students to adopt core values through respectful behavior.

Respect and Success:

September 20, 2017 | 10:07 a.m.

Multnomah County Commissioner Loretta Smith

Smith to Battle for City Council Seat

September 19, 2017 | 5:05 p.m.

Deborah Kafoury (left) and Tricia Tillman

County Faces Claims of Racism

September 19, 2017 | 4:58 p.m.

Sgt. Erik Hargrove works out of Portland Community College’s oldest public safety facility, a former dentist’s office that was converted to work space a few years ago on the Cascade Campus of north Portland. The small building would be replaced as part of a proposed new property tax bond levy that would pay for needed upgrades across the college district.

PCC's Public Safety Building Challenge

September 12, 2017 | 4:41 p.m.

Law & Justice

Protesters in Portland gather to oppose the harsh, anti-immigrant policies of the Trump Administration during a visit by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. (KGW photo)

Sessions Visit Met With Resistance

September 19, 2017 | 5:02 p.m.

David Rogers

New Justice Reform Push

August 29, 2017 | 5:58 p.m.

A car struck another vehicle near a crowd of antiracist protesters, killing a 32-year-old woman, Heather D. Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Domestic Terrorism Erupts in Charlottesville, Virginia

August 16, 2017 | 4:19 p.m.

Adrian Berg

Park Shooting Death Mystery

August 9, 2017 | 2:02 p.m.

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