JM Simpson’s day starts at 5 a.m. He typically picks up a bag of donuts and a few packs of cigarettes and grabs his camera. By 6:15, he’s on the streets of Olympia, Washington, introducing himself to ...

A recent court case highlights how hundreds of low-income patients may face such medical debt, revealing a loophole in the law Six years ago, Oregon lawmakers expanded hospital charity care ...

Read about some lesser-known Queer activists in Oregon who have made important contributions to our community, both in the past and the present Catherine Stauffer is an anti-facist activist who ...

‘ROY G. BIV’s Comedy Show’ is back in Portland at the Siren Theater on July 17. The three women behind it are just getting started. “Did you know ants can carry 50 times their body weight?” asked ...

For many housed people, there is a tendency to conflate unhoused populations with violent crime and danger, but crime rates tell a different story. Editor's note: This story contains graphic ...

"It’s all about providing the resources. It’s all about income disparity, and it’s about making the decision as a society that we need to help people who can’t manage to participate in the way that ...

Anti-homeless policy has been a staple of cities the world over, whether those policies be forthright, like loitering laws and sit-lie ordinances, or peppered into a city’s infrastructure and public ...

The legality of Grants Pass’ homelessness policies is once again under fire. A judge halted enforcement of the city’s latest rules on March 28 while a lawsuit to toss them permanently moves forward.

I catch her in the early evening. Two black bears cross the road just before turning onto her driveway. It’s light out, but I swear I saw two barn owls swooping into a stand of apple trees. After I am ...

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. As the city of Portland clawed its way out of the pandemic, it faced a new set of crises: The city’s homeless population was growing ...

A carceral response to public inebriates — once narrowly focused on low-income people downtown — caused people to search for a better way, fueling the creation of HADIN In the mid-1980s, the most dire ...

Buried secrets lie beneath Portland’s Northwest Industrial District. Wander between Northwest St. Helens Road and the Willamette River and you’ll come across asphalt manufacturing, petroleum tank ...