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Daytime camping ban draws strident testimony during hours-long Portland City Council session

Camping on public property would be prohibited between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. every day, alongside permanent bans around places like schools...

Portland makes long-awaited strides toward replacing sobering station shuttered in 2020

The Unity Center and Providence Portland plan to add 17 sobering beds between them for people in acute states of crisis involving drugs and mental...

'Beyond maddening': Portland mayor's office was blindsided by REI closure announcement

Records show that REI higher-ups and Mayor Ted Wheeler's office were in communication for months about safety and security issues, but the news came as...

Touring the first Oregon lab licensed to test the strength of legal psilocybin

Oregon's first-of-its-kind psilocybin therapy program now has a complete "supply chain" in place: a grower, a lab, facilitators and a service center. PORTLAND, Ore....

Oregon lawmakers cancel public hearing on dead bill that would have banned homeless camp 'sweeps'

House Majority Leader Julie Fahey, a Democrat, called the bill a "significant distraction" from lawmakers' work this session. SALEM, Ore. — A controversial bill...

Anonymous feedback to Portland police LGBTQ+ training included seething comments about 'woke' subject matter

Anonymous feedback to a 2022 series of training videos came up in a quarterly report evaluating the Portland Police Bureau's compliance with a DOJ settlement....

City of Portland and police union reach agreement on body cams

While Mayor Ted Wheeler's office announced the agreement Thursday night, they did not say what the terms would be. PORTLAND, Ore. — The City...

100 days into her first term, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek assesses her progress

Having entered office with the promise of addressing some of Oregon's most pressing issues, Governor Kotek highlighted early legislative victories. SALEM, Ore. — Whether...

'My faith was grown there': Portland woman recalls her family's ties with the old Clay Street church

Meriel Bernhard was married in the church in 1967, back when it was still owned by the same German congregation that had it built in...

'A significant victory': Seniors in Tigard may be able to keep their low-income housing

Washington County has agreed to negotiate the purchase of the Woodspring Apartments after senior tenants organized against the owner's plan to raise rents. TIGARD,...

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