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Mother Nature Cooperates for The Great Solar Eclipse

Mother Nature Cooperates for The Great Solar Eclipse
Aug 22, 2017, 8:25 a.m.
Kayse Jama Announces Senate Run

Kayse Jama Announces Senate Run
Aug 16, 2017, 4:55 p.m.
Where History Happened

Where History Happened
Aug 22, 2017, 4:51 p.m.
Hot Jazz, Wines and Fine Art

Hot Jazz, Wines and Fine Art
Aug 22, 2017, 7:35 p.m.
Comic Carved Niche as Political Voice

Comic Carved Niche as Political Voice
Aug 22, 2017, 5:41 p.m.

Latest News

(left) Michael Kurz explores borders to illuminate physical barriers and lines. (right) Shanon Weber makes 3D sculpture designs from reclaimed materials.

On Alberta Street

August 22, 2017 | 8 p.m.

Grammy nominee and 8-time Blues Music Award Winner Shemekia Copeland will perform this weekend at the Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival.

Hot Jazz, Wines and Fine Art

August 22, 2017 | 7:35 p.m.

Elmer Armstrong and his tribute band to the Platters, which includes four original members of the group, will perform a benefit concert, Saturday, Aug. 26 at St. Ignatius School.

A Night with ‘The Platters’

August 22, 2017 | 7:07 p.m.

Dick Gregory

Comic Carved Niche as Political Voice

August 22, 2017 | 5:41 p.m.

Arts & Entertainment

(left) Michael Kurz explores borders to illuminate physical barriers and lines. (right) Shanon Weber makes 3D sculpture designs from reclaimed materials.

On Alberta Street

August 22, 2017 | 8 p.m.

Grammy nominee and 8-time Blues Music Award Winner Shemekia Copeland will perform this weekend at the Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival.

Hot Jazz, Wines and Fine Art

August 22, 2017 | 7:35 p.m.

Elmer Armstrong and his tribute band to the Platters, which includes four original members of the group, will perform a benefit concert, Saturday, Aug. 26 at St. Ignatius School.

A Night with ‘The Platters’

August 22, 2017 | 7:07 p.m.

Performers from Ghana comprise the Portland performing group, Okropong. Part of the Obo Addy Legacy Project, they will perform during a free presentation, “The Legacy of Obo Addy and His Impact in the Pacific Northwest,” on Monday, Aug. 28 at 7 p.m. at McMenamins Kennedy School.

The Legacy of Obo Addy

August 22, 2017 | 5:04 p.m.

Metro

(left) Cathy Galbraith, executive director of the Architectural Heritage Center. (right) The historical Rutherford House at 833 N.E. Shaver was built in 1920 and was first home of the NAACP Credit Union. The NAACP Portland Chapter was founded in 1914.

Where History Happened

August 22, 2017 | 4:51 p.m.

A group of visitors from Seattle gather on the lawn at Peninsula Park in north Portland Monday morning to view the Great Solar Eclipse.

Mother Nature Cooperates for The Great Solar ...

August 22, 2017 | 8:25 a.m.

Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon (MESO), a community development financial institution working with disadvantaged communities, receives $200,000 from Wells Fargo to provide loans to entrepreneurs who might not qualify for a business loan from traditional sources. Pictured from left to right are Wells Fargo executive Andrew Tweedie, Tracie Curtis, MESO Deputy Director Tastonga Davis, MESO Executive Director Nita Shaw and Wells Fargo Executive Cobi Lewis.

Loans for Start-Up Entrepreneurs

August 16, 2017 | 5 p.m.

Executive Director of Unite Oregon Kayse Jama.

Kayse Jama Announces Senate Run

August 16, 2017 | 4:55 p.m.

Law & Justice

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.

Danielle Outlaw

Mayor Names New Police Chief

August 8, 2017 | 4:06 p.m.

President Donald Trump encouraged police officers to be "rough" with people they arrest in a speech last week on dismantling the criminal gang known as MS-13 that was made before law enforcement in Long Island, N.Y.

Push Back on Brutality

August 1, 2017 | 6:22 p.m.

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