It could have happened in any town in any state. The checks were supposed to be deposited and used to pay for rent, utilities, food and other necessities for a disabled individual. The official report ...

The lifelong advocate talks climate change activism in this installment of Nothing More Hopeful Bonnie McKinlay arrives at my house a little out of breath, greets my dog, and apologizes for being late ...

In the new documentary “ Arresting Power,” which premiered at the Northwest Film Center in January, there is a 1981 film clip of Portland police commissioner Charles Jordan in heated dialogue with ...

Happy (legal) campers— Eugene, Oregon More than a decade ago, the city of Eugene took a radical approach to common sense: faced with a homeless population it had neither the resources nor capacity to ...

The Port of Portland wants to change the law so it can keep dumping dredge waste in West Hayden Island’s natural area off Oregon's Columbia River When the City of Portland pulled West Hayden Island ...

There’s a lot of money — and lives — resting on Oregon’s grand experiment in restructuring health care through Medicaid. Portland metropolitan area’s largest coordinated care organization, Health ...

Oregon has the stiffest water pollution regulations of any state in the U.S. Sounds impressive, right? Think again. Oregon is dead last nationwide when it comes to keeping wastewater permits current ...

Fear is big business, and managing that fear along our nation’s 5,000 border miles is a booming industry. Author Todd Miller has researched and written about immigration and border issues along our ...

Dan Savage grew up in a Catholic family in Chicago. At 18 years old, he came out as gay to his family, who after one rocky summer, Savage says, became aggressively supportive. That support has served ...

Former Marine and member of Portland’s Veterans for Peace chapter, Dan Shea knows the lasting effects of the Vietnam War all too well. In 1977 his first child was born with a number of birth defects ...