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Shootings Draw Response

Shootings Draw Response
Apr 17, 2019, 9 a.m.
Emotions Run High

Emotions Run High
Apr 17, 2019, 8:11 a.m.
Toran Offers a Plan for Wapato

Toran Offers a Plan for Wapato
Apr 17, 2019, 8:25 a.m.
Cully Place Build

Cully Place Build
Apr 17, 2019, 9:12 a.m.
From Sacajawea’s Point of View

From Sacajawea’s Point of View
Apr 17, 2019, 8:48 a.m.

Latest News

Paul Knauls and Jamaal Lane support the annual community supper fundraiser for the North by Northeast Community Health Center, the only medical clinic in Oregon devoted to black health.

Community Dinner for Black Health

April 17, 2019 | 9:48 a.m.

Portland Community College accounting instructor Usha Ramanujam applies life experience to support her students.

Getting Ahead with a Degree

April 17, 2019 | 9:43 a.m.

Minimum Wage Hike Would Help 40 Million ...

April 17, 2019 | 9:21 a.m.

Oregon Connections Academy seniors Fatimah Us’Sutteri (from left) and Madi Beck and sophomore Camille Fox spend a rewarding day of volunteering at the Habitat for Humanity Cully Place Build site in northeast Portland.

Cully Place Build

April 17, 2019 | 9:12 a.m.

Arts & Entertainment

Electra Davis, founder of Mysteek Naturals, wearing her hair in Royal Purple

Hair Trends for Summer

April 17, 2019 | 9:04 a.m.

Chris Murray (from left), Nick Ferruci, Nathalie Standingcloud and Robert Mesa star in ‘Crossing Mnisose,’ a new world premiere play that weaves together Sacajawea’ story with that of current efforts by Native Americans and others to save the Missouri River from the Dakota Access Pipeline.

From Sacajawea’s Point of View

April 17, 2019 | 8:48 a.m.

Sister Tigers Settle In

April 10, 2019 | 9:23 a.m.

Jocelyn Seid

Diverse Play on Gun Violence

April 10, 2019 | 9:18 a.m.

Metro

Oregon Connections Academy seniors Fatimah Us’Sutteri (from left) and Madi Beck and sophomore Camille Fox spend a rewarding day of volunteering at the Habitat for Humanity Cully Place Build site in northeast Portland.

Cully Place Build

April 17, 2019 | 9:12 a.m.

Civil rights organizers Hector Hinojosa (left) and Lynn Marzette are on a quest to improve police transparency and ensure unbiased law enforcement after an unusually high number of officer-involved shootings involving people of color in Vancouver and Clark County over the past few months.

Shootings Draw Response

April 17, 2019 | 9 a.m.

Nipsey Hussle

Thousands Drawn to Rapper’s Legacy

April 17, 2019 | 8:45 a.m.

Kay Toran, president of Volunteers of America Oregon, has proposed a re-envisioning of the never-used former Wapato jail site in north Portland.

Toran Offers a Plan for Wapato

April 17, 2019 | 8:25 a.m.

Law & Justice

Civil rights organizers Hector Hinojosa (left) and Lynn Marzette are on a quest to improve police transparency and ensure unbiased law enforcement after an unusually high number of officer-involved shootings involving people of color in Vancouver and Clark County over the past few months.

Shootings Draw Response

April 17, 2019 | 9 a.m.

Russell Courtier and Colleen Hunt

Life Sentence in Hate Murder

April 16, 2019 | 3:44 p.m.

Rep. Janelle Bynum

If cops called for no reason, bill ...

April 10, 2019 | 8 a.m.

An adult in custody plays music in a mental health ward at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem where the drab walls of the space were recently transformed into a more humanized environment by painting a tranquil outdoor scene to create a more humanized environment.

Prison Walls Get Touch of Humanity

March 28, 2019 | 9:25 a.m.

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