The American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon has announced the settlement of a lawsuit alleging that agents sent by President Donald Trump in 2020 to protect a federal courthouse used excessive force against racial justice protesters.

Gregory Gourdet, a chef whose parents immigrated from Haiti to Queens, New York, in the 1960s, started out with a two-day pop-up in the summer of 2020, when Portland was locked down from COVID and embroiled in Black Lives Matter protests.

Protecting your mental health is tough amid anti-LGBTQ+ attacks, but here's some advice on how to stay safe during the next four years.

A stretch of land in southern Oregon with historical significance, including the likely location of a treaty signing and near the site of a massacre, is returning to the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians.

Nada Wolff Culver, BLM’s former principal deputy director and one of the architects of the signature Biden administration regulation, said she fears this signals the new administration is moving to dismantle the rule that seeks to balance conservation with energy development, livestock grazing, recreation and other uses of BLM rangelands.

Convicted eco saboteur Joseph Dibee is contesting the $82,497 in restitution he was ordered to pay for a fire set at a wild horse corral in California owned by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management ...

The poll from DHM Research, conducted for the business group Portland Metro Chamber, found that just 38% of registered voters surveyed say their county is on the wrong track. That’s down from 62% three years ago and 51% last year. “There’s definitely signs of improvement,” said Michelle Neiss, DHM’s president.

City of Possibility opens January 31. The exhibition in Portland is curated by PDX Design Collaborative, a group helmed by local architects, artists, and educators.

The unionized employees are part of the city's water, transportation, police and permitting departments. Workers want higher pay.

One of the many fortunes of being retired is having more time and capacity for volunteering. My ideal volunteer opportunities combine three things: A cause that benefits this Central Oregon

The small Oregon city at the heart of a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that allowed cities across the country to enforce homeless camping bans is facing a fresh lawsuit over its

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