When asked what his reaction to the fact that Parkrose Football Coach Keanon Lowe disarmed the gunman, junior Clayton Espenel ...

Albina Head Start Executive Director Ronnie Herndon and a representative for the Deliverance Center told the Portland Observer that an ...

Called Inner City Capital Connections, the program is like a tuition-free “mini-MBA” that provides 40 hours of training and a ...

Albina Vision would receive $75,000 under Wheeler’s proposal, for outreach—also a new item. The diverse group of backers of Albina ...

First place winner Jack Hill of Westview High School wrote about the inequities of providing housing for people who face ...

The event hopes to inspire a new generation of tradeswomen to pursue the many apprenticeships and job openings in the ...

For the first time in a more than a decade, a black member of the community is poised to be ...

Clarke has traversed a personal and winding path that led her to becoming an advocate for education, a goal she ...

DePass said she knows from personal experience the plight of surviving in a low-income upbringing and the disruptions that situation ...

Fifteen outstanding young women from Portland metro area high schools comprise the 2019 Rose Festival Court. With history and tradition ...

Citing “deeply unsettling” events of “hate speech and racial insensitivity” at Cleveland High School, Principal Ayesha Freeman has assembled an ...

Multnomah County is set to pay $100,000 to a former black employee who filed suit against the county, alleging a ...

Cason’s Fine Meats, Champions Barbershop and greenHAUS gallery are all family-owned, family-friendly businesses. The owners––Theotis “Uncle Theo” Cason, Jamaal Lane, ...

Tiffani Penson, a longtime Portland city worker, education advocate, and community volunteer, is vying for the Portland Community College Board ...

“Few grasp that nonviolent direct action requires planning, preparation, strategizing, recruiting, outreach, messaging and all the mechanisms needed for a ...