Public records show how Zenith Energy plans to continue expanding its facility, which sits between the Willamette River and Forest Park. (City of Portland public records) ...

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 ...

Evidence that the Trump administration’s policy of mass deportation is already harming the economy arrived in the July jobs report Recently, Immigration Customs and Enforcement, or ICE, took away ...

Less than two weeks before hosting a West Coast summit of his peers, Portland’s mayor talks about the critical agenda items. Street Roots recently sat down with Portland Mayor Charlie Hales and talked ...

The festival aims to a space for emerging creatives of color In the early 2000s, playwright August Wilson told his friend, actor and director Jerry Foster, about “Jitney,” a play Wilson had written ...

Last year, Pamela Slaughter spotted more hawks than she had ever seen in her life in the Zumwalt Prairie Preserve in Eastern Oregon. She viewed Hells Canyon from the top of Mount Howard and plans to ...

Grants Pass, Oregon won a Supreme Court case allowing cities to punish homeless people. But its latest legal settlement reiterates cities must act reasonably, despite federal provocations. The city of ...

As the political messaging war and the need to galvanize audiences increases in urgency, where better to learn some tips than the Oregon Pro Wrestling School? Lackluster messaging is a common critique ...

There’s no easy way to run a construction company. But it becomes almost impossible, James Posey said, when you’re fighting with local governments trying to squeeze you out of work in favor of ...

More people take public transportation in Portland than just about anywhere else in the country. TriMet says that could soon change, if the Legislature doesn’t approve transportation funding during ...

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